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Help needed, Asus laptop will not start windows

post #1 of 7
7/16/06 at 10:08pm
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I have a S96J, about 3 weeks old. It has been running great. I just turned it on and the Windows XP logo comes up after it loads it goes straight to a bluescreen and says something like "UNBOOTABLE VOLUME' then it restarts. It keeps doing this.
I have tried safe mode and last know good configuration but it does the same thing. Just blue screens then restarts.
I have not made and software or hardware changes, it worked fine 2 hours ago and I shut it down. I am trying to use my system restore cd but I cant get it to boot from cd.

Any suggestions? I would hate to lose my data that i have on my laptop
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post #2 of 7
7/16/06 at 10:37pm
yeah, looks like your hdd. to get it boot from cd you have to cahnge the boot order in the bios settings. best case scenrio your partition just messed up, which you'll have to reformat and you should be good, worst case: your hdd have gone loco and will need to be replaced.
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post #3 of 7
7/17/06 at 8:00pm
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Originally Posted by abf
yeah, looks like your hdd. to get it boot from cd you have to cahnge the boot order in the bios settings. best case scenrio your partition just messed up, which you'll have to reformat and you should be good, worst case: your hdd have gone loco and will need to be replaced.


Yea thats what I had to do thanks. I tried to repair it but it didnt work and I lost everything. Nothing that cant be replace but lots of video editing was lost. So I reformatted everything.
How do I stop this from happening again though? The only thing I can think of was the night befoe I put alot of video more than 20gb onto the hard drive for editing. It worked in the morning but then in the afternoon it didnt. Kinda sucks that I just bought this laptop and its already having problems.
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post #4 of 7
7/17/06 at 8:34pm
Maybe before you start again it's better to partitioned your hdd and put all your video in that partition, so in case this thing happened again, it's ok to reformat the computer without having a risk of losing all the data.
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post #5 of 7
7/17/06 at 10:53pm
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Originally Posted by wheresMYcar
Maybe before you start again it's better to partitioned your hdd and put all your video in that partition, so in case this thing happened again, it's ok to reformat the computer without having a risk of losing all the data.


How do I do that? Install windows on a new partition?

Thanks
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post #6 of 7
7/17/06 at 11:09pm
I'd like to suggest 2 possible options for the future. 1st., since you already reformatted your hard drive, next time, put it in an external enclosure and see if you can still move the data to another drive. Windows not booting up would not make a difference in copying the data if it's just the operating system that's screwed up. 2nd., get an external USB or Firewire HD and use this drive as your primary data drive or as a backup drive. Never go with a backup drive in this day and age.
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post #7 of 7
7/17/06 at 11:10pm
Sorry, that's "without a backup drive". Oops!
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