PC Problems (Possible Harddrive issues)

[TomR100]

My PC will not boot up. It starts but then hangs and nothing happens. No blue screen, no windows, etc..

How would I know if my PC needs the harddrive replaced or if something else is wrong?

Is there a certain spot when watching the PC boot up where I can do recovery from the enclosed CD?

Thank you,
TomR100

 

[billy71]

Don't know if this will work on yours or not. But on the Dell computers you can check the hardrive. When the computer starts hold down the Alt & Ctl key and continue to click the D (character)button, this is a hard drive diagnostic procedure. I think they say at the logo screen but I start doing it at start up.

 

[DaveFarquhar]

A lot of things can cause this, but I've seen a trashed MBR do it. Fortunately that's a software problem and you can fix it without spending any money. Get a DOS boot disk with FDISK.EXE on it. You should be able to download one from

http://www.bootdisk.com

if you don't have one. Boot off the disk, then type FDISK /MBR and hit enter. After it finishes, pop the disk, reboot, and if the problem was the MBR, it should boot again.

Dave Farquhar

http://dfarq.homeip.net