Continuous Rebooting 1

[Morgenb]

Hi, all. I replaced my power supply the other day with a higher wattage unit, then there was a power failure and ever since the power failure, the computer will start up and get to the windows loading screen with the little progress bar and then reboots. I tried to get into safe mode, but if i choose that, it also reboots. I took the battery off the mobo and put it back in with the same results. Could this be a bad hard drive? Also, it said ECSD successfully updated when I started it up the first time after the pf. Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.

Morgen Buckner

 

[ruler1]

sounds like windows might be corrupt. next time you boot up into the option screen try selecting windows with command prompt and then in the DOS screen type chkdsk c: /f or try typing checkdisk c: /f you might be asked to shedule a disk check and be prompted to type Y/N at this point type Y then press enter then restart your machine.
once your computer starts it should perform a system check then if any corrupt files are found it will attempt to reapir them. best of luck!

please let us know if this fixed the problem.

 

[Morgenb]

I tried to boot into safe mode with command prompt and it rebooted right after showing the list of drivers that it was going to load. It made 3 quick clicking sounds, which is why I think maybe the hard drive is trashed.

 

[ruler1]

a clicking hard drive doesnt always mean a nackered hard drive. its common for a hard drive to click irratically and louder than normal when it has corrupt files on it. when the computer reads your hard disk and encounters a corrupt file it will often try to read it several times and its that what causes the clicking. its just the arm clicking back and forth over the erea where the file is located.
you might want to search microsoft for scandisk.exe so that you can check and repair any file system errors.

 

[Morgenb]

Ok, well, this would make me very happy if the hard drive is not broken. I will get a boot disk and run scandisk and see what happens.

 

[stduc]

Failing that try Spinrite from grc.com

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[Morgenb]

Brilliant. I found this utility called UBCD for windows, made a boot CD and ran chkdsk. After that I ran Fixboot because the boot sector was corrupt. Now I'm all up and running again! Thanks alot, folks.

Morgen

 

[stduc]

That's good to hear.

Is this the CD you are talking about?

http://www.ubcd4win.com/index.htm

The only problem I know with letting chkdsk fix your hdd is that I as far as I am aware it doesn't make any great effort to recover data from a bad sector. So at the end you can have either missing or corrupted files. Perhaps someone could confirm or deny this? This may not be a problem of course as XP keeps 2 copies of all critical system files and restores automatically from the backup if it thinks there is a problem.

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