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Brief Note: My home desktop machine has manifested a mysterious malfunction, which involves it not booting (or, indeed, looping through a partial boot over and over again). The hard disk seems to be ok - ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
olethros was able to look at files on it when he booted from a Linux CD - so I'll be able to retrieve data, and I can get online from the laptop, but I won't be on WoW or EVE for a few days until we work out what needs to be done to get the desktop running again. I'm hoping it just needs a reinstall of Windows, but it might yet be a hardware problem. We'll see.
olethros was able to look at files on it when he booted from a Linux CD - so I'll be able to retrieve data, and I can get online from the laptop, but I won't be on WoW or EVE for a few days until we work out what needs to be done to get the desktop running again. I'm hoping it just needs a reinstall of Windows, but it might yet be a hardware problem. We'll see.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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boot useing the windows cd and choose repair.
you will need to login as the admin
once loged in
just type the following command
chkdsk /r
this will run a scandisk and will c=try to fix bad sectors.
when that is finnished the use this command
fixmbr
this should get you back up and running for a while.
I also have a program (bootable cd) that can fix bad sectors as about 90% of them are magnetic errors.
give me a shout if you need any help or i can look at the system for you
and get it back up and running.
Thanks
Chief