boot issues

I have a system that will not make it past post. The system starts, and then has a black screen that basically reads "disk error" and a mac id. Now, I know that means there is something wrong, so I took the drive and put it in my main system with slightly higher specs. The hard drive worked...

I am attempting to run a reinstall of Windows 7 for a friend. The system boots and gets into the Windows install, though when it gets to Expanding Files ... 75%, the system acts like it is rebooting and then shuts off. I have thought about that it could be bad RAM or HDD. Though the times that...

Hello. I have a problem with my pc. I have windows 10 installed, and have formatted and installed windows all over again trying to fix this problem but it didn't do it. When I turn on my pc, the windows logo appears for a few seconds and then the computer shuts off. When I press the power button...

Hi, I have been having an issue with the login screen on my computer. After pressing to remove the picture image the screen in which the password box would normally appear does not display. This prevents me from logging onto the computer and essentially leaves me locked out. I have not been...

Hi new here hoping for some help, my daughters laptop which is a year old but has only been turned on about 10 times hardly used just sits under the bed in its box, well she pressed power button and nothing happened just a black screen and an arrow that you can move nothing else no welcome no...

I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 PP29L running Windows Vista. The system freezes while booting from the HDD. During a boot into safe mode the system locks up at Loaded: \Windows\system 32\drivers\crcdisk.sys I have been trying to boot from a Windows Vista install disk, but it freezes as well. It...

Hi Today my computer suddenly froze up, I was in the process of deleting some files in file manager, not anything unusual at all. Unfortunately it wouldn't respond to Crtl, Alt, Delete, so after trying everything I could I did a hard shutdown. When it rebooted it said that the boot sector was...

Having trouble booting computer after failed Windows 10 update. After cancelling the install restarted machine but only came up with a cursor and a blue background. Got to task manager so changed msconfig to start in safe mode on restart and was going to go back to a restore point. Tried to...

I can no longer boot 64-bit Win 7 Pro in normal or Safe Mode on ANY disk due to BSOD: STOP 0x0000007B (0XFFFF880009A97E8, 0XFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0, 0). The motherboard is an Asus Z-87A. NOTE: I profusely apologize, but since I can't even boot in Safe Mode, I cannot run the "W7F Diagnostic Tool"...

I am facing this problem since yesterday, I ran sfc scan and it was upto 89% when BSOD appeared again. After some time it reboots the machine and shows another screen. When I restart machine it works fine until few hours Sent from my ONE E1003 using Windows Forums mobile app

I haven't had any problems since I installed windows on a new hd back in 2012. Until now. Yesterday I was on the internet and I see something like static on the screen. After a short while my computer froze. I restored and that seemed to work, but today Windows will not boot. I can boot in Safe...

Hi. I just installed Win8.1 on a second partition on my Toshiba Satellite. Now it seems my computer cannot find the wifi adapter on win8.1. I also cannot boot win10 any more for some reason. I think that it is not a hardware issue because, the wifi worked on Win10 right before I installed the...

Hi, my computer had many viruses and i could not enter google services like google and youtube and these sites. So, i choosed to reinstall my windows os from the control panel! But, the installation was stuck on 14% in about 8 hours or somethings... Then i turned my computer off, And when i...

Yesterday I opened a ticket with Microsoft help on this problem and after elevation to level 2 at Manila PI I was told that my mother board does not support Windows 10. I am not sure about that since I had been using Windows 10 for more than 6 months without problems or I should say minor...

Short version: I need to format my HDD to NTFS with no current OS. Long version: I was happily running Windows 10, but wanted to do a re-installation to speed things up. The installation hung at 1% for an hour or so, so I rebooted - no operating system. I downloaded a win10 iso and booted from...

A couple days ago my Old Asus laptop got infected somehow. The wireless adapter is not working properly. When I go into the Device Manager, I get the big paragraph that ends with "(Code 52)". Pressing F8 during boot and then selecting "Disable Driver Signature Enforcement" works to get the...

Hello, I have asked about my BSOD on a different forum, and thankfully people are helping me by asking for files that display all the processes on my laptop. But, here are my conditions right now - As my condition seem like the only one...or not - I CANNOT boot normal mode AT ALL - Most...

When I boot up windows 7, an hour glass appears. But of late it takes longer and longer for the hour-glass to disappear. I understand that some function/app or otherwise is in the background, possibly loading. How can I find out what is running in the background that the system is trying...

I was running xp, until the windows/system32/config/system was found missing. I do not have the windows disk, but I do have a Linux mint 16 disk. For some reason it won't let me boot from DVD, I stead just giving the error message.

Hi, yesterday I accidentally pulled the plug of my PC without shutting it down properly. Today it didn't boot at all. Shortly before it would usually display the user selection the PC just completely stops sending visual signals to my screen. If I proceed to shut it down by holding the power...