Right miffed this morning, spent two hours last night trying to solve a boot problem on my main PC, only to finally give up and decide I now need a new main hard drive.

How it came about......

I loaded some software from a manufactuers original CD, then it needed a re-boot, as it was re-booting it flashed a blue screen up (not enough time to read it) and re-booted and kept on doing this from there on. I couldn't even get into the Boot Menu to try and boot from CD :confused:

I did manage to Boot from CD by disconnecting the power to the main HDD, and check my second HDD, which is fine as far as I can tell.

So I've got a new HDD coming so will have to re-load everything from scratch, unless I can somehow re-use the old drive once the new one is up and running..... we'll see ;) a bit of playing I think........ A right pain in the arse!

 

 

At least I've got the lappy :D

mine kept doing this,but it was because the memory hadn't been pushed into it's slot properly.

Funny you should say that, my second pc has just decided to start blue screening, nevermind, lucky i fix computers/networks etc by trade :P

Right miffed this morning, spent two hours last night trying to solve a boot problem on my main PC, only to finally give up and decide I now need a new main hard drive.

How it came about......

I loaded some software from a manufactuers original CD, then it needed a re-boot, as it was re-booting it flashed a blue screen up (not enough time to read it) and re-booted and kept on doing this from there on. I couldn't even get into the Boot Menu to try and boot from CD :confused:

I did manage to Boot from CD by disconnecting the power to the main HDD, and check my second HDD, which is fine as far as I can tell.

So I've got a new HDD coming so will have to re-load everything from scratch, unless I can somehow re-use the old drive once the new one is up and running..... we'll see ;) a bit of playing I think........ A right pain in the arse!

 

 

 

 

 

At least I've got the lappy :D

 

 

 

 

when the new one arrives just get a program called acronis true image and pass everything to the new one works like a charm thats all i use to costumers that want to keed all data in new pcs or hdds. iis also great to keep a constant image of your pc so in case of failure you never loose any data :)

blue screen is usually a memory dump, so give that a search on google and see if theres a way of stopping it happen, when i had it , it was a case of 2 many programs trying to run at the same time, in which causes the computer to crash, - blue screen flash and reboot! google it , :D

Thanks guys for the help :bow: I've got a new HDD coming anyway now so will load Vista on as a full fresh install on the new drive and hope that I can recover my progs from the old drive. If not I've got a lot of work to do ;)

I've had operating problems for some time and wanted to do a fresh install with a new HDD to sort it out without loosing all my other progs, so looks like I will be doing now anyway.

Well I've finally sorted all the problems out.

Arn't PC's a bloody pain in the arse??

So I'm now running three HDD's, the new SATA (80Gb) has the OS on it (Vista) there is no damage to my original 300Gb storage IDE drive so that's working fine, and I also have the old 80Gb IDE drive that had the old Vista on it along with all of my progs. Currently looks like the only thing I have lost is all of my Internet Favorites :( and I had 100's!

 

Thanks for all the help above, at least it's all back and working again :D

Well I've finally sorted all the problems out.

Arn't PC's a bloody pain in the arse??

So I'm now running three HDD's, the new SATA (80Gb) has the OS on it (Vista) there is no damage to my original 300Gb storage IDE drive so that's working fine, and I also have the old 80Gb IDE drive that had the old Vista on it along with all of my progs. Currently looks like the only thing I have lost is all of my Internet Favorites :( and I had 100's!

 

Thanks for all the help above, at least it's all back and working again :D

 

If you didnt wipe your old drive, you will be able to find your favorites, you might have a bit of a hard time trying to get into your personnal area on your old hard drive though!

If you didnt wipe your old drive, you will be able to find your favorites, you might have a bit of a hard time trying to get into your personnal area on your old hard drive though!

 

All my Favs were on Safari, and I've searched before to find how they store them, but without any luck :(