katashy Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I was using my laptop and everything was fine. Then, I shut it down from the start menu and went away for half an hour. I came back, turned it back on and it started loading. Then, at the "microsoft corporation" loading screen it froze. I've tried the solve problems stopping windows from starting option numerous times and it still freezes. Now, it doesn't even give me any options to choose from, cuts straight to a loading files screen, goes to another loading screen and then freezes. Help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retribution Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 The same thing happened to me on my old laptop, often after a BSOD. Usually, if I tried long enough, the startup repair would work. I asked a tech support person and they said it was most likely from the processor being damaged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katashy Posted February 21, 2010 Author Share Posted February 21, 2010 After starting it up this morning it seems to work. Now, I'm at the factory reset page, but I'll use the windows recovery so I don't lose any data. Except, the newest restore point is back when I installed Oblivion which was ages ago... Btw, It didn't give me any choices, it just went straight to the recovery screen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 That's not good. You could be having hard drive problems. If you can get it back up be sure to back up everything that you cannot replace - including any game data folders, save games, downloaded mods, mod archives etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katashy Posted February 22, 2010 Author Share Posted February 22, 2010 It seems to be working, although a bit slower than usual... And I have backed up everything of importance onto two 4 gb memory sticks. Mostly stuff for school and a few save games and mods. Sadly, because the last restore point was about 4 months ago, it's installing 64 updates and after 1 hour is on 36. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illiad86 Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 by chance, did you run a virus scan? My grandma had a virus on her computer once that caused the same exact problem you were having, except it destroyed the boot.ini and nothing could be done except reformat :( Lucky it only infected her C: drive and not her backup drives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHammonds Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 it destroyed the boot.ini and nothing could be done except reformatActually, if the boot.ini was all that was affected, you can still boot the PC using a repair boot CD such as BartPE and copy/move/edit files on the drive. If you have a secondary PC, you could pull that drive out and put it in another computer just as if it were an additional data drive and then scan for viruses and fix files (such as the boot.ini) LHammonds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illiad86 Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 Yeah, I did do that...and it did nothing, it must of messed up other files then...argh viruses! Still, the way he/she is explaining it, it really sounds like bad clusters on the HDD or it's dying :( Did you run chkdsk and Seatools (I dont' know the name of WD's diagnostic software)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderCrazy Posted February 26, 2010 Share Posted February 26, 2010 WD just uses chkdsk as far as I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHammonds Posted February 26, 2010 Share Posted February 26, 2010 SpinRite is a great tool for recovery, maintenance and early detection of a failing drive. LHammonds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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