hi my computer keep going back to the boot up screen. it says this has happened due to a recent power failure, hardware or software installation. each time i try to load windows which it gives me three options i.e either normally, last good config or safe mode it keeps coming back to the same screen whichever one i choose. i have tried booting it up from the backup cds to reload windows and it seems to bypass this even though the boot sequence it set to boot first from cd. the only thing which i can think has caused this was i deleted my antivirus software nod 32 as it did not seem to be working correctly. i asked the it guy at work what could be wrong and he said my hard drive had probably gone but surely this cannot have happened from just removing one programme. any thoughts or answers to my dilema would be much appreciated.
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- Thread starter becks1
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It sounds like the NT loader files have been damaged.
Are you sure it's bypassing? When you have an O/S installed, you will get a single line message asking if you want to boot from CD. It only appears for 5 seconds.
becks1 said:
Are you sure it's bypassing? When you have an O/S installed, you will get a single line message asking if you want to boot from CD. It only appears for 5 seconds.
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Beck, Have you actually checked in the BIOS that
1: The system is seeing the Optical Drive, and that
2: The system is actually trying to boot from the Optical drive first?
If the Optical Drive died, that would explain the second problem, and usually the Boot sequence is Floppy, HDD and then Optical. The only way to change this is within the BIOS, which is entered, usually, by hitting the delete key on the Boot screen, iof it's a Dell or some others it may be F2 or F12.
1: The system is seeing the Optical Drive, and that
2: The system is actually trying to boot from the Optical drive first?
If the Optical Drive died, that would explain the second problem, and usually the Boot sequence is Floppy, HDD and then Optical. The only way to change this is within the BIOS, which is entered, usually, by hitting the delete key on the Boot screen, iof it's a Dell or some others it may be F2 or F12.
will have to double check this when i get home but im sure the system should show the optical drives as they have been installed for years it is a dell and your right you have to press f2 caus this is how i checked what the boot sequence was set to.
somehow by fiddling with the bios and swapping my reinstallation cd from one drive to another i have managed to get it to boot from cd. just reinstalling my windows now. still strange though why i got the problem in the first place as all i did was remove nod 32 from my system.
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