Blue screen Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 1:22 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Matt Jones (152 messages posted) Hi, my boss has a laptop that has stopped working. When it starts up the windows logo apears for a few seconds then a blue screen with lots of writing on it apears for 1 second, to quick to read it then it re-starts again over and over. Does this mean his hard drive has gone or is it something to do with the boot files? I tried to get to the command prompt but all that was available was 'Start in safe mode and comand prompt' or something like that. I wanted to run scan disk. How do I get the command prompt in wxp home. My next question is if I bought a 2.5" caddy for a laptop drive can I usb it into my pc to retreive the data? Thanks. Matt. Responses to this message: re: Blue screen (jcw: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 2:10 pm) re: Blue screen (rob: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 2:17 pm) re: Blue screen (jcw: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 2:25 pm) re: Blue screen (georgemason: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 4:56 pm) continious rebooting (Dahiru: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 8:41 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Blue screen (Matt Jones: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 1:22 pm) re: Blue screen (jcw: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 2:10 pm) re: Blue screen (Matt Jones: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 2:52 pm) re: Blue screen (rob: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 2:17 pm) re: Blue screen (Matt Jones: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 2:26 pm) re: Blue screen (jcw: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 2:25 pm) re: Blue screen (Matt Jones: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 2:31 pm) re: Blue screen (jcw: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 2:50 pm) re: Blue screen (Matt Jones: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 3:01 pm) re: Blue screen (jcw: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 4:20 pm) re: Blue screen (Matt Jones: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 4:31 pm) re: Blue screen (jcw: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 9:54 am) re: Blue screen (Matt Jones: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 11:47 am) re: Blue screen (jcw: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 12:28 pm) re: Blue screen (Matt Jones: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 12:42 pm) re: Blue screen (jcw: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 1:10 pm) re: Blue screen (Matt Jones: Mon, Oct 31, 2005, 2:01 pm) re: Blue screen (georgemason: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 4:56 pm) continious rebooting (Dahiru: Tue, Aug 14, 2007, 8:41 am) re: continious rebooting (MartinM: Tue, Aug 14, 2007, 9:03 am) 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