i have a 80 gig sata hard drive and i operate windows XP --here the thing i was downloading a voice changer program by screaming bee and half way thru the download i decided to cancel to process then i went to shut down my pc and it would not so i manually shut it down by pushing power button on the tower case when i came back to my pc it would turn on but no windows ?? why did this happen??? i tried to back it up with windows cd and reformatt and even system restore and and windows repair but nothing --rebooted in safe mode nothing still just keep getting (make sure your hdd is plug in or powered correctly ) tried different sata plug on the main board still nothing -says the drive is there but nothing works get as far as the xp welcome screen and system scan as is loads and then black screen and stays there what do i do and suggestions please help
you probably have corrupt system files from the abnormal shutdown. A simple chkdsk c: /f can fix this problem. I've encounter this problem before and a chkdsk has always fix the problem. But if you reformatted the drive, that might have cause all your data to be gone. The chkdsk will fix the bootsector but it might not bootup.
can u explain to me in steads on how i should do this??? cuz i dunno if i can even get to this park to check disk cuz it loads and shows its process loading up but after it gets to the big XP screen it stays black then nothing happens??? what kinda procedures can i do??
you can use your windows xp installation cd to get to the dos screen and type in the chkdsk c: /f command. The best tool would be a bartpe bootcd. You can make one (all you need is a windows xp installation cd). It boot's up your computer and you can use the command line to type in chkdsk c: /f . When windows xp is booting up and hangs, that's a good sign that you have some sort of system file corruption. When windows stops it means it can't find the next startup files because they are missing or corrupt. Worst case scenario, you can remove the drive and slave it into a known good computer and when you boot it up you can run a scandisk (with the boxes to fix errors checked) a scandisk is similar to a chkdsk except it is run from within windows. A more powerful tool is the free "testdisk" it can also fix hard drive corruption (and recover data) but that would be something to try if a chkdsk won't fix it. Everytime I encounter this problem a chkdsk was always able to get my computer to boot up again. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
ok ill try that but last time i used windows cd nothing did much cuz i could not get it to boot in any mode from the cd drive like when u reformat or repair windows but ill try to get it to boot from the cd and check disk ill get back to ya on t his one ill try the drive in another computer aswell ty ill shall be back
ok i tried chkdsk and well nothing really happen cuz its said nothing was wrong i dunno why but any ways i then got to the repair screen from booting off windows cd and got every thing back but windows is little screwed up still but at least i got it working so i guess all i have to do is save some of my stuff and reformatt for a fresh new start ty for the help guys or gals this was a big help
