So, a friend of mine urged me to come here and ask you guys if you could solve my problem. I guess he really trusts you guys with technical issues. Hope you can help.
I just acquired my laptop back from repairs (the left speaker was broken so I sent her in to get that fixed). I also asked the people at AW to format my HD and reinstall windows XP on her as I wanted a fresh start anyway.
I installed everything on her again. Everything worked fine.
I decided to play around with dreamweaver CS3 while listening to music only to have the laptop slow-up and freeze to the point of me using the power button to turn her off. Bad move, apparently.
I tried loading windows again but it took longer than usual. There’s a point in the loading process (from pressing the power button to having your desktop fully loaded) that allows you to press whatever your designated button to access the bios menu and the boot menu. This ‘BIos loading screen’ stays on for a good 5 minutes… which is really awkward as I would rarely have a chance of accessing the bios menu because the loading would be incredibly fast.
Once this occurs I get the standard windows black screen with a few options for booting windows.
Safe Mode
Safe Mode w/ net working
Safe mode w/ command prompt
Windows (last good configuration)
Windows Normally
I tried loading it with my last good configuration and it got to the windows loading screen. The three blue bars scroll around the loading bar and the screen disappears. I assumed windows would load now. It didn’t. Instead I got a black screen. I left it there for a good 30 minutes and nothing. Black screen.
I rinsed and repeated the process but instead chose ‘Start windows normally.’ Nothing.
Third time is the charm, right? Nope. I started with last good configuration again and gave it a 9 hour booting time (I went to sleep). The screen was still black.
At this point I start to worry. Maybe windows has a corrupted file of sorts.
I decided to boot from CD. Same results.
I’m left with no other choice but see if I can boot from safe mode. It worked!
What now? I can only access safe mode… and I really need my laptop up and going.
I’ve never formatted my own laptop before so, as embarrassing as it is, if it comes down to it, please detail how I should go about doing this ;_; Though, I doubt I’d need to. There’s always a way of fixing these sort of issues… I just am not aware of it.
Thanks in advance!