To the person who can successfully diagnose a definitive fix, there is a prize of a $10 steam game or equivalent.
So, I got a new motherboard and installed it in my computer. Everything else the same. My computer starts up fine, but as soon as I get to the screen where the Windows 7 logo starts to appear, it shuts down and restarts. Using system repair, I just get "cannot fix."
Are there any USB devices other than keyboards or mice plugged in? Or maybe a CD still in the drive? I sometimes have issues starting up if I leave a thumb drive plugged in. I don't know if that helps but I gave it a shot.
[QUOTE=Jack Bryce;26459430]Are there any USB devices other than keyboards or mice plugged in? Or maybe a CD still in the drive? I sometimes have issues starting up if I leave a thumb drive plugged in. I don't know if that helps but I gave it a shot.[/QUOTE]
Actually there was. An mp3 player was plugged in to the back, but unplugging it changed nothing.
Have you tried starting the computer in safe mode?
It doesn't let me.
Instead it gives me the option to go into startup recovery every single time.
put back in the CD in the right hand corner (might be the left hand corner) look for repair tools or something, a bunch of options will appear one of with will be scan and fix blah blah, choose that, if it can't see the HDD then reseat the sata connector into another port
Hmm, I've just done a little bit of research on similar problems and it seems that Windows generally doesn't like it when you change your motherboard, unless it's really similar to the old one. You might have to reinstall windows, if that's an option for you.
Fuck me.
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It's not really an option. Any ways around it?
[editline]3rd December 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;26459594]put back in the CD in the right hand corner (might be the left hand corner) look for repair tools or something, a bunch of options will appear one of with will be scan and fix blah blah, choose that, if it can't see the HDD then reseat the sata connector into another port[/QUOTE]
What?
[QUOTE=venn177;26459793]
What?[/QUOTE]
put the win 7 cd in ur comp...
[QUOTE=dj0wns;26459849]put the win 7 cd in ur comp...[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I tried the scanning for memory errors. No errors found.
Also, I tried doing a Windows upgrade over my current one that saves all programs and such, but Windows needs to be running for that to work. :saddowns:
You can use a LiveCD to take off any files you need.
The problem being I have about 400gb of files I need backed up, and no way to back them up.
its obviously an incompatibility with the motherboard. you will probably have to do a full reinstall... remember to back up your stuff
New motherboard?
Reinstall windows.
[QUOTE=venn177;26459915]The problem being I have about 400gb of files I need backed up, and no way to back them up.[/QUOTE]
you dont need 400 gigs backed up. if you back up anything more than save files you are stupid
Even with the conservative inevitable strain on my internet I would still have about 50gb to back up and no place to put it.
[QUOTE=venn177;26459983]Even with the conservative inevitable strain on my internet I would still have about 50gb to back up and no place to put it.[/QUOTE]
the comp you are currently on?
or flashdrive?
spare hard drive?
you should always keep a backup of your computer
Is a laptop with 20gb of space.
go buy an external drive for like 30 bucks then
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will back up all 400 gigs if you are that lazy
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can i have my game now?
I am poor. I can barely afford to pay my bills, and had to save up for three weeks to be able to afford this damn motherboard.
Boot to linux. Make a new partition on your HDD with your remaining free space. Install windows on new partition. ????. Profit.
Do you have an iPod or something like that? You can use that for file storage if you want.
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[QUOTE=its shortie;26460034]Boot to linux. Make a new partition on your HDD with your remaining free space. Install windows on new partition. ????. Profit.[/QUOTE]
Actually this solution works too.
[QUOTE=Jack Bryce;26460035]Do you have an iPod or something like that? You can use that for file storage if you want.[/QUOTE]
he wouldnt have an ipod big enough most likely
[editline]2nd December 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=its shortie;26460034]Boot to linux. Make a new partition on your HDD with your remaining free space. Install windows on new partition. ????. Profit.[/QUOTE]
this works
I'm surprised I didn't think of that, I've done something similar twice before...
[QUOTE=its shortie;26460034]Boot to linux. Make a new partition on your HDD with your remaining free space. Install windows on new partition. ????. Profit.[/QUOTE]
With this idea, would I not still end up losing all of my data?
Use partman in ubuntu. I think thats what its called.
Question. Are there any ways to boot into safe mode when windows tries to boot into startup recovery?
[QUOTE=venn177;26460067]With thi idea, would I not still end up losing all of my data?[/QUOTE]
No. You would only format the small partition you created.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but is it not true that you cannot combine partitions without formatting a whole HDD? So in order to do what you're implying and have it work, I would need to create two new partitions: A linux Partition, probably about 5gb, and a second Windows 7 partition, say 550GB.
So then I move everything from the first Windows 7 partition to the second, would I then be able to add those partitions back to the now-working Windows 7 partition? I was under the impression that that wasn't possible.
Get two cd's, a linux distro one and 'gparted'. Make sure you actually have like the amount of space free on your hard drive. Like if you wish to back up 150gb, make sure you still have atleast 150gb free space on your hard drive.
Boot with gparted, it will allow you to change/add/remove partitions without having to format everything. You can decrease the size of the windows partition and add a new one for your backup. It might take a while. Then I'm not really sure whether you can actually move the files around while being in gparted, perhaps you can and then you'll not need a linux distro livecd.
But maybe you can't, and you'll have to boot with the linux distro and move the files you want to back up to the new backup partition and you'll be done.
You can then insert your windows installation disk etc etc. Just be sure that when you have to choose on what partition you want to install it, that you don't actually install it on your backup one. Or worse: erase the back up partition completely.
Perhaps there are also applications on a linux distro that function the same way as gparted, but I recommend gparted, I've used it a lot and it always worked properly.
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