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Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
71,891
Living In a Box
Mini has a Toshiba laptop that will not boot up correctly at all just goes round in a loop, cannot get to safe mode and tried a system restore which failed.

Claim is nothing malicious has been downloaded so any bright ideas.

Oh and switch it off then on has been done several times to no avail.
 

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
71,891
Living In a Box

juliant

Well-known member
Apr 4, 2011
555
Northamptonshire
I would take the hard drive out and slave it to another system. Then run a chkdsk and repair on it. Done this many a time and got the machine going again. On the other hand plenty of failures aswell. Good luck :)
 

TotallyFreaked

Active member
Jul 2, 2011
324
Chkdsk /r works most times in fixing a hard disk that will not boot and keeps restarting (usually due to corrupt system files). If it is XP then boot from an XP CD, choose recovery mode and then run chkdsk /r. In windows 7 you also need to boot from win 7 cd then choose repair then startup repair or try command prompt and run chkdsk (making sure you select the right drive letter to run the chkdsk on) i.e. chkdsk /r d:

If this does not fix the problem you can always install a fresh copy of xp/windows 7 and as long as you do not format the disk it will move all your current files to a dir called old files

Hope that helps
 




skipper734

Registered ruffian
Aug 9, 2008
9,189
Curdridge
Dear Technical Support,

18 months ago, I upgraded to Girlfriend 1.0 from DrinkingMates 4.2, which I had used for years without any trouble. However, there are apparently conflicts between these two products and the only solution was to try and run Girlfriend 1.0 with the sound turned off.

To make matters worse, Girlfriend 1.0 is incompatible with several other applications, such as LadsNightOut 3.1, Football 4.5, and Playboy 6.9. Successive versions of GirlFriend proved no better.

I tried a shareware program, Slapper 2.1, but it had many bugs and left a virus in my system, forcing me to shut down completely for several weeks. Eventually, I tried to run GirlFriend 1.2 and Girlfriend 1.0 at the same time, only to discover that when these two systems detected each other they caused severe damage to my hardware.

I eventually upgraded to Fiancée 1.0, only to discover that this product soon had to be upgraded further to Wife 1.0. While Wife 1.0 tends to use up all my available resources, it does come bundled with FreeSexPlus and Cleanhouse2005.

Shortly after this upgrade, however, I found that Wife 1.0 could be very unstable and costly to run. Any mistakes I made were automatically stored in Wife 1.0's memory and could not be deleted. They then resurfaced months later when I had forgotten about them. Wife 1.0 also has an automatic Diary, Explorer and E-mail filter, and can, without warning, launch TurboStrop and Multi-Whinge. These latter products have no Help files, and I have to try to guess what the problem is. Additional problems are that Wife 1.0 needs updating regularly, requiring ShoeShop Browser for new attachments and Hairstyle Express which needs to be reinstalled every other week. Also, when Wife 1.0 attaches itself to my Saab93 Convertible hard drive, it often crashes. Wife 1.0 also comes with an irritating pop-up called MotherInLaw, which can't be turned off.

Recently I've been tempted to install Mistress 2005, but I've been told there could be problems. A friend of mine has alerted me to the fact that if Wife 1.0 detects Mistress 2005, it tends to delete all of your Money before uninstalling itself.

Any advice would be helpful, many thanks
 

Puppet Master

non sequitur
Aug 14, 2012
4,055
I know it's an obvious one but is there anything else it could be trying to boot from, eg usb stick left in or disc in the drive...
 

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