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My Dell laptop has been getting the "death screen" the past couple weeks if I have to many windows open, but it would just go away and restart. Today...different story. It starts over and it says...
Fixed optical drive not found
NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+DEl to restart
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But...when you do that it just restarts the computer and goes back to this screen...what can i do!? I have things on the desktop that I need! Everything is in...
Answer
May need more info, however, you might be able to boot from a Startup OS CD and select the "R" option for repair (only if you're good with the command-line interface.) This option will not delete your user profile, nor over-write any of your config settings.
If you're unsure of this procedure, try extracting NTLDR from the i386 folder of your OS CD and copy it to the root directory of your PC. This may require you to boot from a Startup media as well.
I'm assuming this is XP? If it's Windows NT, re-post for different instructions.
May need more info, however, you might be able to boot from a Startup OS CD and select the "R" option for repair (only if you're good with the command-line interface.) This option will not delete your user profile, nor over-write any of your config settings.
If you're unsure of this procedure, try extracting NTLDR from the i386 folder of your OS CD and copy it to the root directory of your PC. This may require you to boot from a Startup media as well.
I'm assuming this is XP? If it's Windows NT, re-post for different instructions.
Computer login help!!!?
Beowulf
Ok so try logging on and while it was booting it said diskette drive 0 seek failure. I tried to change the boot sequence but the same thing pops up every time. It also says press F1 to continue or F2 to run setup utility. So i click F1 and it goes to login screen. But when I try clicking on my account it says "this copy of windows must be activated with Microsoft before you can log on. Then it takes me back to login screen. I tried safe mode but when i press F8 nothing happens and it takes me to the diskette failure thing.
What do i do?????????????
Oh never mind it seems that my keyboard had an error so i switched my keyboard. I can finally run in safe mode. But thanks for the answer!!!!1
Answer
This one is tough:
If you have a Windows CD around you need to insert it and reboot the computer.
When it loads you need to select the Command Line Repair option.
You will eventually see a black screen with text(DOS)
type "fixboot" just to rule anything out.
then type "chkdsk /r" and wait and wait. This will scan and try to repair or tag bad sectors on your hard drive.
If all else fails it may be a malware issue.
You will need to download a "rescue" file to put on a CD or USB stick to boot from and scan/repair
your system.
I recommend stop-malware.com/malware-rescue-cd.html
This is free to download and will provide more info on the process.
This one is tough:
If you have a Windows CD around you need to insert it and reboot the computer.
When it loads you need to select the Command Line Repair option.
You will eventually see a black screen with text(DOS)
type "fixboot" just to rule anything out.
then type "chkdsk /r" and wait and wait. This will scan and try to repair or tag bad sectors on your hard drive.
If all else fails it may be a malware issue.
You will need to download a "rescue" file to put on a CD or USB stick to boot from and scan/repair
your system.
I recommend stop-malware.com/malware-rescue-cd.html
This is free to download and will provide more info on the process.
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