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My laptop is broken

It has a disk error on boot up. It says “Disk error. Press any key to continue” I press a key and that same text re-appears. Is the HD toast?

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My laptop is broked

It has a disk error on boot up. It says “Disk error. Press any key to continue” I press a key and that same text re-appears. Is the HD toast?

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Thargor offline Verified User (3 years) Long Term User Shouts: 5 #
Guelph, ON, CA | 2 years, 11 months ago (1 minute after post)

It does make noises when I press a key, but does nothing. Key Beeps if I depress a button for any length of time obviously. But the actual HD sounds a bit funny. My inclination is that I fried the poor thing.

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Thargor offline Verified User (3 years) Long Term User Shouts: 5 #
Guelph, ON, CA | 2 years, 11 months ago (4 minutes after post)

Yes.

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US | 2 years, 11 months ago (1 hour, 1 minute after post)

restart it and when it comes to the main screen, click on START and then click on HELP & SUPPORT…..and see wats up there, and tell me what happened

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Thargor offline Verified User (3 years) Long Term User Shouts: 5 #
Guelph, ON, CA | 2 years, 11 months ago (1 hour, 8 minutes after post)

I can’t get to the windows screen. I can’t get into CMOS even.

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An Unknown Location | 2 years, 11 months ago (2 hours, 11 minutes after post)

sorry bout the lap top …mine has been acting up to!!!

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Mr D offline Verified User (2 years, 11 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
IS | 2 years, 11 months ago (3 hours, 2 minutes after post)

Yikes. You can’t get into setup at all? Usually it’s delete or one of the F keys to get into setup. If you can’t get into setup, then it sounds like a motherboard problem, and not a HD problem. If you just can’t boot windows, then you probably have a corrupt sector on your HD where there were some very important windows files.

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Eagle Harbour, BC, CA | 2 years, 11 months ago (4 hours, 7 minutes after post)

What kind of laptop is it, and what system were you using?
:)

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Thargor offline Verified User (3 years) Long Term User Shouts: 5 #
Guelph, ON, CA | 2 years, 11 months ago (14 hours, 43 minutes after post)

IBM Stinkpad 600X. Was using Windows 2000.

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An Unknown Location | 2 years, 11 months ago (1 day after post)

you sound so educated.Maybe you should check the hardrive?

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Eagle Harbour, BC, CA | 2 years, 11 months ago (1 day, 2 hours after post)

Have you tried a system recovery
Hold down F11 key while you press on button
then some options should pop up
Will your computer allow you to get that far?

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Thargor offline Verified User (3 years) Long Term User Shouts: 5 #
Guelph, ON, CA | 2 years, 11 months ago (1 day, 2 hours after post)

No. I think I will just upgrade it altogether. It is unfortunate that I will lose some songs and projects. I will create new ones in time! Thanks for all your help and suggestions everyone. I think I am going to just lay it to rest. I am sending it to someone who may be able to recover it so I still have some hope!

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Eagle Harbour, BC, CA | 2 years, 11 months ago (1 day, 2 hours after post)

Thats too bad they are not cheap to buy or fix, but you have probably lost some memory, I had a similar problem and ended up replacing a memory card and that fixed it, of course I lost a bit of stuff, but managed to save stuff, and it took forever to reload all the software etc…
Good luck
:)

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IS | 2 years, 11 months ago (1 day, 4 hours after post)

Thargor: All is not lost. Just because your laptop won’t boot doesn’t mean that all of your data is lost. Even if parts of the hard drive are corrupted, there is probably still plenty of your data that you could recover.

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An Unknown Location | 2 years, 11 months ago (1 day, 18 hours after post)

thats how it is on my laptop windows xp

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An Unknown Location | 2 years, 11 months ago (3 days, 23 hours after post)

uhmmmmmm…..maybe you should restart it

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