Recent content by Andrew Romao

Not sure what you mean by this?

The one question I have is can I format the other two partitions on the drive and leave the whole drive empty and then install windows on it?

I feel as if I just wipe and reinstall I let the problem beat me until I have tried every resource to get this drive up and running. I am going to try a few more things today such as MBR fix and ill let you guys know how it goes. If anyone can think of anything else please let me know if not...

I also noticed there is a startup repair and system repair whats the difference with these? I tried both but also never got past the windows logo again.

I plugged the OS drive to my desktop to copy over files and it shows in disk management (From left to right) first whte box is 55MB Healty OE...2nd box shows System reserve 100 MB NTFS Healthy (Active)...and the 3rd box is D: 232.68 GB NTFS Healthy ( Primary Partition). Would wiping the system...

No such luck resetting bios to factory settings computer still rebooting. I havent found an extra video card yet but, but if the card was back would it show no video at all? It leads me to believe a start file is corrupt or something because it reboots at the exact same spot when starting to...

Ok i will try resetting the bios as well. I will also be taking out the hard drive and copying all the files to my server for a backup for future attempts to repair. Thanks alot for your help ill post tomorrow with my findings.

Ok ill will reboot between attempts and do it three more times. All hard ware is the same except for a new power supply.It could be possible a video card issue ill see if I have one laying around I can try. Also There is no beeping what so ever I listened to that to see if it may have been an...

Saltgrass I tried doing the sfc.exe and it stated it didnt find any errors or violations...I also ran a chkdsk which stated it made corrections to the file system. I rebooted and same result starts to load windows logo and reboots back into windows error recovery. I put the windows 7 disk in for...

Wow that sucks...could also try and get a cheap APC UPS backup.

Mike Hawthorne thanks for your suggestion but what I usually do if I just need to get document and files off a drive is use a sata/pata/ide drive to usb 2.0 adapter converter cable. Is that basically the same idea as you Ubuntu disk? Here is a link what what im talking about. Only problem with...

Saltgrass thanks for the suggestion I am definitely going to try those things I forgot to mention I ran tests on memory and hard drive and everything passed. I will try sfc.exe very soon and let you know how it goes. I also only did the system repair about twice so ill try it 3 times in a row...

I apoligize in advance as I am new to this forum if this is not the correct location to post my issue. I am currently working on my fathers desktop which is a Dell XPS 400. He had a recent power surge which killed his power supply. We ordered a new power supply installed it and now once we boot...