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General Category => Tech Clinic => Topic started by: KMWalker2006 on December 26, 2004, 08:27:24 PM

Title: Major Computer Problem can some one help me
Post by: KMWalker2006 on December 26, 2004, 08:27:24 PM
I have a Compaq Presario 1830(laptop) w/ windows Xp Pro.........I lost  all my data.....everytime I start windows up..The ususal red "Compaq" logo pops up then...it takes me through to this blue screen that pops up so fast to were i cant get the full message it goes away and the red "Compaq" logo pops up again, and it does it over and over again, sometimes it takes me to the "how do you want to start windows" screen, it says "start windows in safe mode", "start windows with networking", "start windows normally";etc...None of them work it just takes me throughout the process I named earlier.....as i put in Restore cd 1 it starts to load PC DOS it says somthing about "AIC-78XX fails" or somthing like that (im not sure if DOS loads i think it fails to load) then it takes me to Norton Ghost..i boot from the 3 bootable cds that i have...it seems that all 3 load fine..i restart my computer..and it does the same thing over again(red "Compaq" logo, Blue screen;etc...)..... my System BIOS are set to defualt


Plz plz help me
thanx!
Title: Major Computer Problem can some one help me
Post by: Guest on December 27, 2004, 12:12:46 AM
Go into your Bios and set it to Boot from CD as No.1

Then follow the directions outlined here
Compaq Support (http://\"http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?locale=en_US&objectID=c00034787&locale=en_US&prodSeriesId=96349&prodTypeId=321957\")
Title: Major Computer Problem can some one help me
Post by: KMWalker2006 on December 27, 2004, 09:50:48 PM
[quote name=\'Guest\' date=\'Dec 26 2004, 11:12 PM\']Go into your Bios and set it to Boot from CD as No.1

Then follow the directions outlined here
Compaq Support (http://\"http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?locale=en_US&objectID=c00034787&locale=en_US&prodSeriesId=96349&prodTypeId=321957\")[/quote]
 Thanx but..when i tryed to reboot using norton ghost, i used Partition Restore to reload from my bootable CD to see if that would work, I inserted the first of three restore disk and before the first one loaded completely it said somthing about the partition or CD being corrupt and Norton Ghost exited and This came up "Abort: 19235, Decompression Error -3 A:\GHOST>" it shows that, what should I do?
Title: Major Computer Problem can some one help me
Post by: Guest on December 27, 2004, 09:56:05 PM
Don't you have the Original Disks that came with the laptop, not Nortons Ghost
Title: Major Computer Problem can some one help me
Post by: KMWalker2006 on December 28, 2004, 01:49:29 AM
[quote name=\'Guest\' date=\'Dec 27 2004, 08:56 PM\']Don't you have the Original Disks that came with the laptop, not Nortons Ghost[/quote]
 They're not the originals but they are windows xp pro start up disc
Title: Major Computer Problem can some one help me
Post by: KMWalker2006 on December 30, 2004, 12:47:26 AM
after i done a Partition restore from my cds i chose reset computer now option and this poped up "General failure reading drive M abort, retry, fail?"

what do i do?
Title: Major Computer Problem can some one help me
Post by: KMWalker2006 on December 31, 2004, 03:13:48 AM
bump