Computer has died

Yeah - a windows repair or Windows re-install should do the trick. I tried the repair, but I think one of the corruptions in the O/S is the ID because the repair reckoned it couldn't find the O/S. Even though it started the baby up not 2 minutes previously, and did it again afterwards with the infamous 'critical error'.

Previously when I had this sort of problem on older PC's , I ripped out the hard drives and threw in a blank one installed windows onto that, did a diskcheck, etc on the old drive, and then did a windows repair on the old one. This is what I suspect the maintenance guy will do - I didn't have a spare hard drive lying around this time. And for some reason my brain didn't think of it this time before calling in the cavalry.

(27-01-2015 08:56 AM)celebkiriedhel Wrote:  Yeah - a windows repair or Windows re-install should do the trick. I tried the repair, but I think one of the corruptions in the O/S is the ID because the repair reckoned it couldn't find the O/S.

Precisely! Therefor, I fear that it's a hardware problem. Some critical HD sectors got damaged, perhaps. Like exactly where the ID was stored, for example...

Yeah - that's what a disk check will fix though, I hope.

I'm sorry to hear such bad news come your way Celebkiriedhel. I hope everything works its way out in your favor.

Update. Computer is coming home tomorrow morning all fixed. No data lost. $80AUD cash in hand

I'm happy - that's definitely better than having to spend 2K on a new PC.

Congratz, Kiri, that is fantastic news!!

Yah! Sounds like you got a good deal too

Happy to hear your computer is back, everything is okay and it didn't cost you an arm and a leg.

Yay Kiri!

Whew!