re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot Friday, December 5, 2003 at 9:41 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by zed rivas (2 messages posted) your hard drive has probably really crashed. try to boot to dos(a win98 startup disk could help) and save your documents you want. Run a non-windows disk diagnostic to double check disk integrity. If you use the repair windows feature (not the recovery console in the first few screens of the windows install program,) the system will not write over your user created documents but you will lose some settings and shortcuts. the motherboard warning could be and probably is right. you can do a format and identify the bad clusters, but your better off with a new drive. don't but compaq again. On Friday, December 5, 2003 at 9:37 pm, JeffTronics wrote: >Hi, > >Using OEM Win XP, Home Edition. Compag Presario 5000. The computer will not boot >into Windows. I'm getting a 1720 Imminent Hard Drive Failure, but can't read additional >text because the screen changes to black. > >I'm able to get into F8, and have tried booting into every option available. However >shortly thereafter the screen is black (not blue). > >As an attempt troubleshoot, I purchased stand alone version of Windows XP Home Edition. >I'm able to Boot from the CD, and have been trying to run CHKDSK in Recovery Console. >I Choose to check both /p and /r. The CHKDSK stops at 25%. I have to reboot. > >I'm wondering what to do next hear, the objective being to get this machine to reboot >again. Two questions at this point. > >1. If I decide to reinstall Windows from the CD, is that a safe step to overwriting >and repairing what ever is broken? > >2. Will a reinstall of Windows XP from the CD overwrite or delete any of my user >created documents? I don't mind reinstalling Applications, but don't want to lose >my word documents, etc. > >3. Is there anything on the windows CD I can use to repair the Drive? > >Thanks, > >JR Written in response to: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (Jeff: Friday, December 5, 2003 at 9:37 pm) Responses to this message: re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (Jeff: Friday, December 5, 2003 at 11:16 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (Jeff: Fri, Dec 5, 2003, 9:37 pm) re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (zed rivas: Fri, Dec 5, 2003, 9:41 pm) re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (Jeff: Fri, Dec 5, 2003, 11:16 pm) re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (C K: Fri, Dec 5, 2003, 11:37 pm) re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sat, Dec 6, 2003, 9:46 am) re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (Jeff: Sun, Dec 7, 2003, 1:43 am) re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (Jeff: Mon, Dec 8, 2003, 5:12 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum