• Halp! Windows 7 will not boot, shows blinking dash.
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So, this morning I woke my computer up from sleep mode as always, It worked like it should and when I was done, I put it to sleep again. But when I woke it up 10 minutes ago, I was greeted with a blue screen of death, and a reboot. When the computer was done POSTing, it went to a black screen with nothing but a blinking dash like the one you see in MS-DOS, for instance. I have no idea what has happened. I don't think it's a virus, since I have an anti-virus, use adblock in Firefox, and I mostly only browse sites like Facepunch, facebook, youtube and sometimes 4chan (:v) . So, halp? Also, pressing F8 doesn't do jack shit, other than the PC speaker making a click sound :confused: [editline]20th December 2010[/editline] Wait, I recently heard about AVG making an update that fucks windows up....Have they done it again? Oh and yes, I know AVG sucks
1) System restore / safe mode why did i start numbering again [editline]20th December 2010[/editline] Try with the windows disc.
Well, I can't get to the safe mode menu, and I can't find my windows disc either. I do have a copy of the windows disc on my computer actually, but that doesn't help when the computer itself is broken :v:
[QUOTE=bootv2;26824975]put your hdd into another computer and burn the iso from that one. then put your hdd back in your own pc and boot from the dvd.[/QUOTE] Yea I was considering doing that....But I just found out that my Windows disc is at a friends house, so I'm gonna get it tomorrow anyways...Let's see if I can fix it. I think the bootloader somehow broke, but that doesn't explain why it bluescreened...
This happened to me, I tried plugging out any USB cables and it booted up :v:
[QUOTE=Haxxer;26827479]This happened to me, I tried plugging out any USB cables and it booted up :v:[/QUOTE] Hmm
The Windows disc couldn't do jack shit, it couldn't even open my harddrive. Now I've installed Windows to my second drive, just as a temporary installation [url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1041224-Help-me-get-my-files-back!?p=26904062#post26904062[/url]
can you access the first drive from the secondary drive install
Nope. Windows sees it as a "RAW" drive instead of an NTFS drive...
The filesystem is probably corrupt. I'm not sure what you can do.
[QUOTE=Nipa;26928626]The filesystem is probably corrupt. I'm not sure what you can do.[/QUOTE] So far I've gotten some of my files back using some program. :v: But do you have any idea, why did it just corrupt like that?
[QUOTE=bootv2;26956962]failing hard drive? nasty virus?[/QUOTE] Well I have now reformatted the harddrive, and it works perfectly...I didn't lose any data, but I could've lost them easily, since I didn't have a back-up. So this whole experience has been kind of a wake up call; Always have a recent backup on a second storage device :v:
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