- May 21, 2008
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Hi everyone, Ive had this problem for about 4 days now. When booting, my computer doesnt make it to the windows logo instead it just gives me a black screen with a blinking underscore.
When it happened I had multiple windows up including but not limited to skype, steam, a video game and several chrome windows. One by one they started shutting down until my computer shut itself off. When I tried to turn my computer on it gave me the problem stated above.
I've tried a few things so far, I can't get into safe mode. I was able to do a system restore, but that didn't help. I opened my computer and made sure my hard drive was plugged in correctly.
As I understand this seems like a hard drive issue so I was told by a friend to try and put Linux on a flash drive to boot and perhaps repair from there. But I've never done this before and I am unsure whether im doing it incorrectly or if there is some other reason it isn't working. The steps I took to put linux on a flash drive are as follows: 1- Install 'Unetbootin'. 2- From Unetbootins window download Ubuntu onto the flash drive.
Once I had ubuntu on the flash drive I went ahead and tried getting it to boot on the problem PC. I went into setup to change the boot order from HDD first to USB first. Except there was no option for USB, though I found that if you expand HDD it recognized the USB 'scandisk etc'. When I put that option first and rebooted the computer I still got the same black screen with the blinking underscore.
So I tried booting this laptop (old piece of junk) with the USB instead but I got some strange error that read like "BOOTMNGR" or "DISKMNGR" or some such. Therefore I think I made the bootable linux USB incorrectly.
So I am considering going to office depot and buying some rewriteable CDS and trying booting from that.
Help! Any help would be appreciated whether it would be a new solution to the problem or helping me to put a bootable linux or whatever on a flash drive or cd.
Thanks!
When it happened I had multiple windows up including but not limited to skype, steam, a video game and several chrome windows. One by one they started shutting down until my computer shut itself off. When I tried to turn my computer on it gave me the problem stated above.
I've tried a few things so far, I can't get into safe mode. I was able to do a system restore, but that didn't help. I opened my computer and made sure my hard drive was plugged in correctly.
As I understand this seems like a hard drive issue so I was told by a friend to try and put Linux on a flash drive to boot and perhaps repair from there. But I've never done this before and I am unsure whether im doing it incorrectly or if there is some other reason it isn't working. The steps I took to put linux on a flash drive are as follows: 1- Install 'Unetbootin'. 2- From Unetbootins window download Ubuntu onto the flash drive.
Once I had ubuntu on the flash drive I went ahead and tried getting it to boot on the problem PC. I went into setup to change the boot order from HDD first to USB first. Except there was no option for USB, though I found that if you expand HDD it recognized the USB 'scandisk etc'. When I put that option first and rebooted the computer I still got the same black screen with the blinking underscore.
So I tried booting this laptop (old piece of junk) with the USB instead but I got some strange error that read like "BOOTMNGR" or "DISKMNGR" or some such. Therefore I think I made the bootable linux USB incorrectly.
So I am considering going to office depot and buying some rewriteable CDS and trying booting from that.
Help! Any help would be appreciated whether it would be a new solution to the problem or helping me to put a bootable linux or whatever on a flash drive or cd.
Thanks!
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