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#1 2012-01-18 15:47:17
- cocolover76
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My computer is messed up D:
I am posting this via my mom's computer.
My computer wrote:
A disc read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
And when I try to restart, it gets the same error.
Before it restarted and came to that, it was running ScanDisk, and gibberish popped up and, "A unknown error occurred.". Then, a short BSOD with less text popped up for 0.3 seconds.
I am about to text my dad, and tell him my only choice is to reinstall Windows Vista, or dig the Windows XP disc out of a big pile of stuff a few states away in my other house.
D:
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#2 2012-01-18 15:51:57
- TheCatAndTheBanana
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Re: My computer is messed up D:
Keep hitting F8 until you get Advanced Boot Options, Then hit Safe Mode with Networking. Then back up ALL NEEDED DATA.
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#3 2012-01-18 16:01:59
- cocolover76
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Re: My computer is messed up D:
TheCatAndTheBanana wrote:
Keep hitting F8 until you get Advanced Boot Options, Then hit Safe Mode with Networking. Then back up ALL NEEDED DATA.
>.<
IT DOESN'T EVEN GO INTO WINDOWS IF IT DOESN'T READ THE HARD DISK RIGHT.
I am awaiting the sound of my mom's phone ringing because of a text from my dad.
For now, I will use my mom's computer.
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#4 2012-01-18 16:10:18
- TheCatAndTheBanana
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Re: My computer is messed up D:
OK OK OK
Try putting the disk in another computer. If that computer won't boot, it's the HDD.
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#5 2012-01-18 16:17:43
- cocolover76
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Re: My computer is messed up D:
TheCatAndTheBanana wrote:
OK OK OK
Try putting the disk in another computer. If that computer won't boot, it's the HDD.
It's probably only C drive, with it wrongly formatted by something infecting ScanDisk.
If worst comes to worst, I will reinstall Windows on D drive.
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#6 2012-01-18 16:46:17
- bananaman114
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Re: My computer is messed up D:
Have you tried turning it off and on again
the sun still shines
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#7 2012-01-18 16:59:52
Re: My computer is messed up D:
Yea, the HDD is screwed up. Try reinstalling Windows (or Ubuntu). If that doesn't work, buy a new hard drive.
(Oh, and if it is a prebuilt "commodity" PC (like a Dell or HP), it probably has a recovery partition. Try to get the PC to boot to that.)
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#8 2012-01-18 17:45:44
- cocolover76
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Re: My computer is messed up D:
I reinstalled Windows.
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#12 2012-01-18 23:19:29
#13 2012-01-19 01:28:25
- jji7skyline
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Re: My computer is messed up D:
TheCatAndTheBanana wrote:
OK OK OK
Try putting the disk in another computer. If that computer won't boot, it's the HDD.
Better way... get puppy linux. It runs off the ram. Then try to fix it.
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello!
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#14 2012-01-19 03:06:45
- Zeusking19
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Re: My computer is messed up D:
jji7skyline wrote:
Better way... get puppy linux. It runs off the ram. Then try to fix it.
But it might be limited speed on a laptop.
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#15 2012-01-19 09:51:54
- veggieman001
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Re: My computer is messed up D:
Zeusking19 wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:
Better way... get puppy linux. It runs off the ram. Then try to fix it.
But it might be limited speed on a laptop.
Puppy Linux is designed to do that, so it's optimised for speed.
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#16 2012-01-19 10:06:39
Re: My computer is messed up D:
Man that really sucks.
Your not alone, I'm writing this via a very mentally ill laptop. I cant turn it off or I will have to re-install all the programs that would want to use, because when I turn it back on it has to make me a temporary account seeing as it can no longer '"find" my old account that I've used for the last 3 years. Even though I can find it in my computer under users, right where my patient left it..... :p
Unfortunately I'm also going to have to re-install vista. At least it's not a HDD problem though.
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#17 2012-01-19 10:52:19
- maxskywalker
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Re: My computer is messed up D:
If you can run in safe mode, run your antivirus (and preferably Malwarebyte's AntiMalware too). If you don't have either or one of them, do Safe Mode with Networking and download. If you can't, see then… if there's anything on it that you want to keep, then…
too bad 
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