I hope someone out there can help me because – to give you an idea of my frustration level -- I’m about ready to set fire to my computer and then grind the smouldering ashes into dust with a lump hammer, as I foam at the mouth babbling expletives.
Here’s the problem: At some point my computer crashed and I had to turn it off using the switch at the back of the box. When I turned it back on check disk (chkdsk) automatically started up with a message saying something along the lines of ‘it’s highly recommended you run this’. So I did and it started up then stopped and remained stopped, frozen, until I eventually gave up and turned the computer off at the back again.
This process repeated itself (chkdsk freezing, and always at a different point) and does so every time I turn the computer on – the only way round it is to take up the ‘hit any key in 10 seconds’ option to bypass the check disk. I don’t like doing this though because if there is something wrong with my harddrive, or just needs some file repairs, I want to sort it out, not ignore it.
I browsed the net for solutions but I can’t seem to find a way of running check disk once I’m into windows. If I go to ‘run’ in the start menu and input the ‘chkdsk’ command (with or without the /f parameter or any thing else; I’ve tried them all) I always get the same message about the ‘volume being in use’ and ‘do I want to set it to go on restart’. This puts me back to square one because check disk always freezes on restart.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the harddrive because I’ve checked it with HD Tune and it said it was fine. So maybe I should turn off chkdsk but I’m buggered if I know how too. I’m running windows XP (see details below) but don’t have the installation CD because it was installed with the computer – so I can’t boot from the CD and use the repair console (as someone suggested).
Oh, and to add to my joys, safe mode doesn’t work either – I get a screen full of text when I try to boot it up – something to do with drivers I think.
All in all I’m sick to my back teeth with this machine and hope someone out there can help me before I reduce it to chips.
System details:
Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition
Service Pack 3
Tiny Computers
Intel®
Pentium® 4 CPU 3.00GHz
2.99 GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM
Here’s the problem: At some point my computer crashed and I had to turn it off using the switch at the back of the box. When I turned it back on check disk (chkdsk) automatically started up with a message saying something along the lines of ‘it’s highly recommended you run this’. So I did and it started up then stopped and remained stopped, frozen, until I eventually gave up and turned the computer off at the back again.
This process repeated itself (chkdsk freezing, and always at a different point) and does so every time I turn the computer on – the only way round it is to take up the ‘hit any key in 10 seconds’ option to bypass the check disk. I don’t like doing this though because if there is something wrong with my harddrive, or just needs some file repairs, I want to sort it out, not ignore it.
I browsed the net for solutions but I can’t seem to find a way of running check disk once I’m into windows. If I go to ‘run’ in the start menu and input the ‘chkdsk’ command (with or without the /f parameter or any thing else; I’ve tried them all) I always get the same message about the ‘volume being in use’ and ‘do I want to set it to go on restart’. This puts me back to square one because check disk always freezes on restart.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the harddrive because I’ve checked it with HD Tune and it said it was fine. So maybe I should turn off chkdsk but I’m buggered if I know how too. I’m running windows XP (see details below) but don’t have the installation CD because it was installed with the computer – so I can’t boot from the CD and use the repair console (as someone suggested).
Oh, and to add to my joys, safe mode doesn’t work either – I get a screen full of text when I try to boot it up – something to do with drivers I think.
All in all I’m sick to my back teeth with this machine and hope someone out there can help me before I reduce it to chips.
System details:
Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition
Service Pack 3
Tiny Computers
Intel®
Pentium® 4 CPU 3.00GHz
2.99 GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM