Well, I recently bought a 9860, and it was working great for a day. I did purchase Windows XP Home Edition with this notebook, but now I appear to be having issues.
At one point, I was getting funny glitchy images on the screen during boot-up. It would make the simple white words during the boot-up phase unreadable, and looked quite worrying.
Eventually, the computer stopped booting up altogether, and I got the blue screen of death. I let the system sit for half-an-hour worried that maybe it was just over-heating or something, and I needed to give it time to cool off. When I turned it back on, the funny glitchy graphics and lines went away, but now during boot-up I get this "Press Crtl-R to enter fastbuild<tm> utility" message during the boot, and if I just ignore it, it goes to a blank screen, which eventually pops the words "Operating System not Found".
It appears to be a Hard Drive problem. For one, the fastbuild utility seems to have to do something with the hard drive, but anything I do with it doesn't effect if the operating system loads or not.
Second, when I pop the recovery CD in, and try installing XP again, it can't find any drives to install it to.
Lastly, when I go through the recovery console, and type "BOOTCFG /ADD" I get the message "Error: Failed to succesfully scan disks for windows installations. This error ma be caused by a corrupt file system, which would prevent bootcfg from successfully scanning. Use chkdsk to detect any disk errors.
With "CHKDSK", I get the message "The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems."
And non of the commands so far seem to want to contribute to fixing the problems in the repair console.
So, I'm bummed here. I'm hoping this problem can be fixed without me having to get another HDD, if that's the way this is going. Recommendations, solutions?
At one point, I was getting funny glitchy images on the screen during boot-up. It would make the simple white words during the boot-up phase unreadable, and looked quite worrying.
Eventually, the computer stopped booting up altogether, and I got the blue screen of death. I let the system sit for half-an-hour worried that maybe it was just over-heating or something, and I needed to give it time to cool off. When I turned it back on, the funny glitchy graphics and lines went away, but now during boot-up I get this "Press Crtl-R to enter fastbuild<tm> utility" message during the boot, and if I just ignore it, it goes to a blank screen, which eventually pops the words "Operating System not Found".
It appears to be a Hard Drive problem. For one, the fastbuild utility seems to have to do something with the hard drive, but anything I do with it doesn't effect if the operating system loads or not.
Second, when I pop the recovery CD in, and try installing XP again, it can't find any drives to install it to.
Lastly, when I go through the recovery console, and type "BOOTCFG /ADD" I get the message "Error: Failed to succesfully scan disks for windows installations. This error ma be caused by a corrupt file system, which would prevent bootcfg from successfully scanning. Use chkdsk to detect any disk errors.
With "CHKDSK", I get the message "The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems."
And non of the commands so far seem to want to contribute to fixing the problems in the repair console.
So, I'm bummed here. I'm hoping this problem can be fixed without me having to get another HDD, if that's the way this is going. Recommendations, solutions?
