C Partition Problem

[Dell Christopher]

HP Pavilion desktop, Windows 7 Home Premium

When I boot up the computer, it goes to a black screen with only "Startup
Repair" or "Start Windows Normally" options. If I choose Repair, it just
sits at a light blue screen for over an hour until I just give up.
Normally, when I've chosen the Repair option on other HP computers, I'm used
to seeing a box come up with options like System Restore, Diagnostics,
System Recovery and some others. If I choose Start Windows Normally, it
just goes into a loop and reboots right back to the black screen.

I removed the hard drive and connected it to another working Windows 7
computer. The hard drive is recognized, but the green progress bar in the
address bar just slowly goes from left to right and never really stops. The
C drive icon is present, but there are no details or capacity bar below it
like the other drive letters. When I double-click on it, nothing happens
and it just freezes up the computer.

Any idea what's going on here? Is my hard drive toast? All feedback is
appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Paul in Houston TX]

HP Pavilion desktop, Windows 7 Home Premium

When I boot up the computer, it goes to a black screen with only
"Startup Repair" or "Start Windows Normally" options. If I choose
Repair, it just sits at a light blue screen for over an hour until I
just give up. Normally, when I've chosen the Repair option on other HP
computers, I'm used to seeing a box come up with options like System
Restore, Diagnostics, System Recovery and some others. If I choose
Start Windows Normally, it just goes into a loop and reboots right back
to the black screen.

I removed the hard drive and connected it to another working Windows 7
computer. The hard drive is recognized, but the green progress bar in
the address bar just slowly goes from left to right and never really
stops. The C drive icon is present, but there are no details or
capacity bar below it like the other drive letters. When I double-click
on it, nothing happens and it just freezes up the computer.

Any idea what's going on here? Is my hard drive toast? All feedback is
appreciated. Thanks!

Possible virus
Possible bad hdd
Try to run a virus check from a Linux boot disk
(Avira, Kaper, etc.).
If nothing is found then slave it to the other
machine and run chkdsk [volume] /f.
Be aware that if /f finds and fixes bad clusters, then odds
are you will have to reinstall 7.
Also, odds are, if it does fix bad clusters, then the hdd
is failing.

 

[tigger]

Dell Christopher writted thus:

HP Pavilion desktop, Windows 7 Home Premium

When I boot up the computer, it goes to a black screen with only
"Startup Repair" or "Start Windows Normally" options. If I choose
Repair, it just sits at a light blue screen for over an hour until I
just give up. Normally, when I've chosen the Repair option on other HP
computers, I'm used to seeing a box come up with options like System
Restore, Diagnostics, System Recovery and some others. If I choose
Start Windows Normally, it just goes into a loop and reboots right back
to the black screen.

I removed the hard drive and connected it to another working Windows 7
computer. The hard drive is recognized, but the green progress bar in
the address bar just slowly goes from left to right and never really
stops. The C drive icon is present, but there are no details or
capacity bar below it like the other drive letters. When I double-click
on it, nothing happens and it just freezes up the computer.

Any idea what's going on here? Is my hard drive toast? All feedback is
appreciated. Thanks!

Might be something here for you, similar problem and solution of a sort.
Basically involves running chkdisk on another machine.
chkdsk (drive): /f
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/13907-63-ridiculous-problem-booting-
windows-vaio-laptop
or
http://tinyurl.com/cxmgauh

 

[Jan Alter]

HP Pavilion desktop, Windows 7 Home Premium

When I boot up the computer, it goes to a black screen with only "Startup
Repair" or "Start Windows Normally" options. If I choose Repair, it just
sits at a light blue screen for over an hour until I just give up.
Normally, when I've chosen the Repair option on other HP computers, I'm
used to seeing a box come up with options like System Restore,
Diagnostics, System Recovery and some others. If I choose Start Windows
Normally, it just goes into a loop and reboots right back to the black
screen.

I removed the hard drive and connected it to another working Windows 7
computer. The hard drive is recognized, but the green progress bar in
the address bar just slowly goes from left to right and never really
stops. The C drive icon is present, but there are no details or capacity
bar below it like the other drive letters. When I double-click on it,
nothing happens and it just freezes up the computer.

Any idea what's going on here? Is my hard drive toast? All feedback is
appreciated. Thanks!

Possible virus
Possible bad hdd
Try to run a virus check from a Linux boot disk
(Avira, Kaper, etc.).
If nothing is found then slave it to the other
machine and run chkdsk [volume] /f.
Be aware that if /f finds and fixes bad clusters, then odds
are you will have to reinstall 7.
Also, odds are, if it does fix bad clusters, then the hdd
is failing.

Good suggestion about running a virus check. You could also download and
create an Avira Antivirus Rescue System CD

http://www.avira.com/en/downloads#tools

The tool is free and Avira says it updates the virus defininitions a couple
of times a day.

Besides this, note who the hard disk maker is of the hard disk and go to the
manufacturer's website and download a diagnostic utility to check the
integrity of your drive.
If there's no virus and the drive is good. use a Win7 install disk to run a
Repair on the system files to restore booting. It may fix the problem so you
don't have to reinstall. And if you don't have a copy of Win 7 you can go to
the following site to download an ISO and make a DVD for the purpose of
repair. It's legal.

http://www.mytechguide.org/10042/windows-7-service-pack-sp1-official-digitalriver-download/

Jan Alter
(e-mail address removed)

 

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Dell Christopher writted thus:


Might be something here for you, similar problem and solution of a sort.
Basically involves running chkdisk on another machine.
chkdsk (drive): /f
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/13907-63-ridiculous-problem-booting-
windows-vaio-laptop
or
http://tinyurl.com/cxmgauh

Running chkdsk /f might fix the problem however I'd try to access the
drive with a Linux live cd and see if you can copy your data onto an
external drive.

Also run the mfg's hard drive diagnostic to see if the drive is defective

 

[Dell Christopher]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I tried booting to a Windows 7 repair disk. After pressing the power
button, I pressed ESC to get to the boot menu and I chose the DVD drive. I
could hear the DVD spinning, Windows was loading files, but then it just
hung again on the light blue screen where the repair options box should pop
up - just like it did before.

Maybe the problem is indeed the hard drive?



"Dell Christopher" wrote in message

HP Pavilion desktop, Windows 7 Home Premium

When I boot up the computer, it goes to a black screen with only "Startup
Repair" or "Start Windows Normally" options. If I choose Repair, it just
sits at a light blue screen for over an hour until I just give up.
Normally, when I've chosen the Repair option on other HP computers, I'm used
to seeing a box come up with options like System Restore, Diagnostics,
System Recovery and some others. If I choose Start Windows Normally, it
just goes into a loop and reboots right back to the black screen.

I removed the hard drive and connected it to another working Windows 7
computer. The hard drive is recognized, but the green progress bar in the
address bar just slowly goes from left to right and never really stops. The
C drive icon is present, but there are no details or capacity bar below it
like the other drive letters. When I double-click on it, nothing happens
and it just freezes up the computer.

Any idea what's going on here? Is my hard drive toast? All feedback is
appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I tried booting to a Windows 7 repair disk. After pressing the power
button, I pressed ESC to get to the boot menu and I chose the DVD drive. I
could hear the DVD spinning, Windows was loading files, but then it just
hung again on the light blue screen where the repair options box should pop
up - just like it did before.

Maybe the problem is indeed the hard drive?

Maybe not if the CD won't boot either.

Things like RAM, CPU, or motherboard problems come to (my) mind.

 

[Rob]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I tried booting to a Windows 7 repair disk. After pressing the power
button, I pressed ESC to get to the boot menu and I chose the DVD
drive. I could hear the DVD spinning, Windows was loading files, but
then it just hung again on the light blue screen where the repair
options box should pop up - just like it did before.

Maybe the problem is indeed the hard drive?



"Dell Christopher" wrote in message

HP Pavilion desktop, Windows 7 Home Premium

When I boot up the computer, it goes to a black screen with only "Startup
Repair" or "Start Windows Normally" options. If I choose Repair, it just
sits at a light blue screen for over an hour until I just give up.
Normally, when I've chosen the Repair option on other HP computers, I'm
used
to seeing a box come up with options like System Restore, Diagnostics,
System Recovery and some others. If I choose Start Windows Normally, it
just goes into a loop and reboots right back to the black screen.

I removed the hard drive and connected it to another working Windows 7
computer. The hard drive is recognized, but the green progress bar in the
address bar just slowly goes from left to right and never really stops.
The
C drive icon is present, but there are no details or capacity bar below it
like the other drive letters. When I double-click on it, nothing happens
and it just freezes up the computer.

Any idea what's going on here? Is my hard drive toast? All feedback is
appreciated. Thanks!

Get yourself a copy of Ultimate Boot CD

This will boot and has many diagnostic tools on the CD.

RAM, HDD, etc

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html

 

[Jan Alter]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I tried booting to a Windows 7 repair disk. After pressing the power
button, I pressed ESC to get to the boot menu and I chose the DVD drive.
I could hear the DVD spinning, Windows was loading files, but then it just
hung again on the light blue screen where the repair options box should
pop up - just like it did before.

Maybe the problem is indeed the hard drive?



"Dell Christopher" wrote in message

HP Pavilion desktop, Windows 7 Home Premium

When I boot up the computer, it goes to a black screen with only "Startup
Repair" or "Start Windows Normally" options. If I choose Repair, it just
sits at a light blue screen for over an hour until I just give up.
Normally, when I've chosen the Repair option on other HP computers, I'm
used
to seeing a box come up with options like System Restore, Diagnostics,
System Recovery and some others. If I choose Start Windows Normally, it
just goes into a loop and reboots right back to the black screen.

I removed the hard drive and connected it to another working Windows 7
computer. The hard drive is recognized, but the green progress bar in the
address bar just slowly goes from left to right and never really stops.
The
C drive icon is present, but there are no details or capacity bar below it
like the other drive letters. When I double-click on it, nothing happens
and it just freezes up the computer.

Any idea what's going on here? Is my hard drive toast? All feedback is
appreciated. Thanks!

With the point that the dusk will not load I would suspect memory or a bad
CD drive.
If you have two RAM modules in it remove one and try again. If it still
doesn't work substitute and try again. Or if only one module see if you can
either get it tested or find another to substitute.
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[Rob]

With the point that the dusk will not load I would suspect memory or a bad
CD drive.
If you have two RAM modules in it remove one and try again. If it still
doesn't work substitute and try again. Or if only one module see if you can
either get it tested or find another to substitute.

hang on the drive will not work in another computer either.

 

[Paul]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I tried booting to a Windows 7 repair disk. After pressing the power
button, I pressed ESC to get to the boot menu and I chose the DVD
drive. I could hear the DVD spinning, Windows was loading files, but
then it just hung again on the light blue screen where the repair
options box should pop up - just like it did before.

Maybe the problem is indeed the hard drive?

My guess would be, something is up with the file system on that disk.

Any tool which attempts to look at the disk,
seems to be stuck in a loop. Like there is a loop
in the file system.

I don't have a sure-fire way to check for that. At least,
not for free. Commercial forensic software might be
one way. A third-party CHKDSK perhaps. Linux doesn't have
a good one of those, for NTFS. Only for its own file
systems (EXT2/EXT3 and so on).

Paul

 

[Rob]

My guess would be, something is up with the file system on that disk.

Any tool which attempts to look at the disk,
seems to be stuck in a loop. Like there is a loop
in the file system.

I don't have a sure-fire way to check for that. At least,
not for free. Commercial forensic software might be
one way. A third-party CHKDSK perhaps. Linux doesn't have
a good one of those, for NTFS. Only for its own file
systems (EXT2/EXT3 and so on).

Paul

Ultimate Boot CD has this on it

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I tried booting to a Windows 7 repair disk. After pressing the power
button, I pressed ESC to get to the boot menu and I chose the DVD drive.
I could hear the DVD spinning, Windows was loading files, but then it
just hung again on the light blue screen where the repair options box
should pop up - just like it did before.

Maybe the problem is indeed the hard drive?

Try a non-Windows media in the DVD drive:

http://www.bootmed.com/

This is a Linux-based media, but it's mainly meant for diagnosing
Windows problems, from outside of Windows.

Yousuf Khan