PC Help

[Brad182]

Friend has a compaq PC and he called last night to say that when he turns it on its just keeps rebooting to a black screen saying there was a problem loading windows last time and will try loading again, over and over.

Any ideas?

Think I had this before on an older machine but can't remember how I fixed it. I know it meant starting a fresh and accessing a folder in safemode which had all our music, photos etc... still on there.

 

[David]

try windows repair imo

 

[C.J]

Sounds like it has a corrupt windows file. Is it under warranty? Does it say a file name is missing etc?
May need to restore the file from a boot up CD.

 

[Brad182]

try windows repair imo

Windows repair, can this be done when you can't actually access windows?

Sounds like it has a corrupt windows file. Is it under warranty? Does it say a file name is missing etc?
May need to restore the file from a boot up CD.

Unsure mate, he only gave me that brief description, going to pop round there later tonight to have a better look at it.
I'll have a look for his boot up disk while there though as it sounds like im going to need it...

 

[David]

of course, you boot up from your windows cd and repair the installation or run chkdsk if you think it's a bad sector issue. Do both of those and if it doesn't work, come back here.

 

[BRUN]

the g/fs brothers comp did this the other week, hdd had gone faulty