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HELP!! can't boot!!! desperate!!!

post #1 of 7
5/26/04 at 6:33pm
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Hello,
I have clients screaming for files off my Sager, and can't even get to safe mode?

first off, when I shut it down last night, I must confess I was tired and ( with no windows open or any other programs running, beside what runs in the background) I just held down the power button untill it shut off.

Today, when I went to start it up, it gets to the point just before the "welcome screen" and reboots bringing up the boot to safe mode options, if I choose boot to safe mode, it fills the screen with a command lines and after about a minute .... reboots and ends up at the boot options screen again, long story short, boot to network, same, boot to command prompt, same, boot to last known good configuration, same thing......

is there any way to restore without reformatting???
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post #2 of 7
5/26/04 at 6:35pm
Maybe your boot order is messed up? Just go to the bios during startup and check. HDD should be first on the list.
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post #3 of 7
5/26/04 at 8:39pm
If it's not, try booting from a CD... either a Windows CD so you can try a reinstall on top of your broken setup, or something like a Linux live CD, which you can use to get your machine booted up so you can access the files on your disk.
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post #4 of 7
5/26/04 at 9:15pm
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Thanks for the response,

checked the order in the CMOS setup it was hard drive first but I changed it to CD and tried my restore disk that came with the Sager, will boot to that and gives me an option the install windows, or restore a bad install, or exit, when I go to restore, it ends up dumping me at a C: prompt with apparent access to my C drive, D drive (where most of my work is) my CD drive and my MP3 player drive,

so I thought at least I can move my important stuff off of my c drive onto my d drive, before I am forced to reformat, (which takes me back to those wonderful days of DOS), anyway when I try to change the directory over to my important stuff, like;
CD "\Program Files"
i get an "access is denied"

I am trying to get to c:\program files\sketchup\projects\*.*

so when I go the install route it takes me to a partitioning screen, which I can only assume is about one click away from a reformat.

any help navigating in a dos world or other suggestions greatly appreciated.

D. Andersen
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post #5 of 7
5/26/04 at 10:00pm
For program files, try the sneaky dos format, CD PROGRA~1. All file names longer than 8 turn into whatever ~1. Things with spaces just drop the space, so I think my documents would be like mydocu~1 or something.
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post #6 of 7
5/27/04 at 9:00pm
no actualy use quotes ex cd "program files" I had to do this a couple of days ago on a client laptop.
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post #7 of 7
5/28/04 at 1:07am
Since clients want your stuff fast, perhaps consider taking out your hdd and use it in another computer setup (not as the OS). I am not sure how etc but at least you would be able to extract your files I suppose.
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