First of all, thanks in advance to all that can help me. Here's my problem with my desktop. I usually don't turn the computer off and just put it in sleep mode until I have to use it again. So far, I've never had a problem when doing this. Recently I did turn the entire computer off because we took a trip out of state. Now I go to turn the computer back on, and all I get is a black screen with a message "error loading OS." I had all the updated antivirus definitions, and two good firewalls on this computer so I'm kinda lost as to what the problem could be or how to fix it. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

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Bill 
Running two firewalls maybe the error..
Reboot into safemode (F8 at will get you into safemode)
And turn off the two firewalls so they DON't load at boot
and then give it a try...
When you get back in turn one on and then try it.

I wish you Happy New Year   :>)
!!!
ô¿ô  DEX







On Monday, December 27, 2004 at 4:06 pm, Bill wrote:

>First of all, thanks in advance to all that can help me.

>

>Here's my problem with my desktop. I usually don't turn the computer off and just 

>put it in sleep mode until I have to use it again. So far, I've never had a problem 

>when doing this. Recently I did turn the entire computer off because we took a trip 

>out of state. Now I go to turn the computer back on, and all I get is a black screen 

>with a message "error loading OS." I had all the updated antivirus definitions, 
and 

>two good firewalls on this computer so I'm kinda lost as to what the problem could 

>be or how to fix it. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. 

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I tried booting in safe mode and I can't get past the black screen. One of the firewalls was included in my wireless router, so I can't turn that one off unless I unplug it, but even still, this was never a problem before. Thanks for the reply!!


On Monday, December 27, 2004 at 4:41 pm, DEX wrote:
>Bill
>Running two firewalls maybe the error..
>Reboot into safemode (F8 at will get you into safemode)
>And turn off the two firewalls so they DON't load at boot
>and then give it a try...
>When you get back in turn one on and then try it.
>
>I wish you Happy New Year :>)
>!!!
>ô¿ô DEX
>
>
>

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Bill 
If you can't get by the black screen via. the safemode you have a hardware error 
or a software error and windows can't get around it at boot.
The norm would be hardware error..making a bad call to a ram address.= black screen 
(BSOD)
Unplug or remove the last item you put in i.e. USB item or pci card or router.
If you can't get it to boot by removing a item reboot with the win2k cd and run the 
repair item under the SETUP item..
It will rework the reg file and put down new OS files so you can logon to win2k..







On Monday, December 27, 2004 at 4:58 pm, Bill wrote:

>I tried booting in safe mode and I can't get past the black screen. One of the firewalls 

>was included in my wireless router, so I can't turn that one off unless I unplug 

>it, but even still, this was never a problem before.

>

>Thanks for the reply!!

>

>

> 

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Thanks a lot DEX. I'll see if that works, but now I can't find my W2K discs. I even made a back up copy for situations like this and now I can't find either of them. I'll let you know what happens. Thanks again!

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Your Welcome Bill

Happy New Year   :>)
!!!
ô¿ô  DEX







On Monday, December 27, 2004 at 10:00 pm, Bill wrote:

>Thanks a lot DEX. I'll see if that works, but now I can't find my W2K discs. I even 

>made a back up copy for situations like this and now I can't find either of them. 

>I'll let you know what happens.

>

>Thanks again! 

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Just found a new error message. When I put in my W2K disc and try to repair it, I get a message that reads "Error I/O Status: 00000A00." Got a friend that thinks this is a HDD problem rather than a virus or corrupt version of Windows. If that's the case, does anyone know of a way to boot by getting around this or repairing it without losing my files?

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Am workng through a similar probelm on a W2K box.  The primary C:\ partition of 15gb 
has failed but the other two partitions are in good order.  Here's what's been tried 
so far;

FDISK /MBR = The command executed but failed to effect the problem.

Ran Easy Recovery on the partition and it indicated there was no physical problem 
with the hardware.

Partition Magic 8 (from Floppy) gave an Error #91 followed by an Error #87.  Attempting 
the same load from a boot CD gave the same results.

Windows Resuce Boot Floppy failed with a less than memorable message.

Windows repair utility from the OS CD failed to find the drive.  Repair Console commands 
are being reserched to see determine repair options.

Am now moving files off of the two other (good)partitions on the drive before proceeding 
with the repairs.

Most of the repair tools used can be found at http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ or hirensbootcd. 
 

Once file retreival has been achieved, the drive will be reimaged from a drive image 
made a little over a month ago.  And would have been do it i had made a copy of one 
directory there is no copy of and the user profile. 

Hope this helps somebody out.  

Best Advice: Make drive images often and use a live backup application like Datakeeper. 
  I didn't and so far its cost me 8 hours.  







On Monday, December 27, 2004 at 4:06 pm, Bill wrote:

>First of all, thanks in advance to all that can help me.

>

>Here's my problem with my desktop. I usually don't turn the computer off and just 

>put it in sleep mode until I have to use it again. So far, I've never had a problem 

>when doing this. Recently I did turn the entire computer off because we took a trip 

>out of state. Now I go to turn the computer back on, and all I get is a black screen 

>with a message "error loading OS." I had all the updated antivirus definitions, 
and 

>two good firewalls on this computer so I'm kinda lost as to what the problem could 

>be or how to fix it. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. 

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Actually, my solution was stupidly easy. I took my HDD out and basically gave it a good knock on the center with my knuckle, and it started up perfectly. Now I'm keeping it in hibernation mode, and haven't had any problems since. I'll probably still look into buying another HDD just to make sure I have a useable one. I'd hate to reformat my secondary drive and lose all that info.


On Monday, February 21, 2005 at 12:04 pm, Joe Baker wrote:
>Am workng through a similar probelm on a W2K box. The primary C:\ partition of 15gb
>has failed but the other two partitions are in good order. Here's what's been tried
>so far;
>
>FDISK /MBR = The command executed but failed to effect the problem.
>
>Ran Easy Recovery on the partition and it indicated there was no physical problem
>with the hardware.
>
>Partition Magic 8 (from Floppy) gave an Error #91 followed by an Error #87. Attempting
>the same load from a boot CD gave the same results.
>
>Windows Resuce Boot Floppy failed with a less than memorable message.
>
>Windows repair utility from the OS CD failed to find the drive. Repair Console commands
>are being reserched to see determine repair options.
>
>Am now moving files off of the two other (good)partitions on the drive before proceeding
>with the repairs.
>
>Most of the repair tools used can be found at http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ or hirensbootcd.
>
>
>Once file retreival has been achieved, the drive will be reimaged from a drive image
>made a little over a month ago. And would have been do it i had made a copy of one
>directory there is no copy of and the user profile.
>
>Hope this helps somebody out.
>
>Best Advice: Make drive images often and use a live backup application like Datakeeper.
> I didn't and so far its cost me 8 hours.
>
>
>

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Sounds like your drive problem might have been stuck read/write head.  I don't have 
a HW problem, and after running FIXBOOT from Console and got it to the point it says 
the BOOT.INI can't be read and then the \system32\ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt. 
 Onward . . . to data . . . hopefully ;>






On Monday, February 21, 2005 at 12:48 pm, Bill wrote:

>Actually, my solution was stupidly easy. I took my HDD out and basically gave it 

>a good knock on the center with my knuckle, and it started up perfectly. Now I'm 

>keeping it in hibernation mode, and haven't had any problems since. I'll probably 

>still look into buying another HDD just to make sure I have a useable one. I'd hate 

>to reformat my secondary drive and lose all that info.

>

>

> 

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