ok, i've read the help posts so i'll lay down some facts
the machine is a dell latitude D530, windows vista business, 2gb of ram
i'm a .net developer so i guess i can take any level of advice
i was in firefox browsing and the laptop froze so i rebooted, this happened again so i rebooted again, now it gets to the boot screen and just keeps going through the progress bar and the (c) microsoft screen forever and ever
i have an oem vista disc that came with it and i placed it in the drive, selected boot from dvd and it went through the loading windows files screen and then got to the msoft/progress bar screen for about a minute and then a blank screen with no hdd/dvd activity.
i ran system diagnostics from the bios menu and all hardware checks out. i've also checked all cables,etc and everything is good
i've tried last known good config and same problem as above
i've tried safemode and it gets stuck at crcdisk.sys so i figure the problem is with the file structure on the hdd.
anyone know why the boot from dvd would happen like above. I have downloaded a vista recovery iso but until i can get to work i can't burn it to a disc (snowed in today- bloody weather!)
any help is appreciated
the machine is a dell latitude D530, windows vista business, 2gb of ram
i'm a .net developer so i guess i can take any level of advice
i was in firefox browsing and the laptop froze so i rebooted, this happened again so i rebooted again, now it gets to the boot screen and just keeps going through the progress bar and the (c) microsoft screen forever and ever
i have an oem vista disc that came with it and i placed it in the drive, selected boot from dvd and it went through the loading windows files screen and then got to the msoft/progress bar screen for about a minute and then a blank screen with no hdd/dvd activity.
i ran system diagnostics from the bios menu and all hardware checks out. i've also checked all cables,etc and everything is good
i've tried last known good config and same problem as above
i've tried safemode and it gets stuck at crcdisk.sys so i figure the problem is with the file structure on the hdd.
anyone know why the boot from dvd would happen like above. I have downloaded a vista recovery iso but until i can get to work i can't burn it to a disc (snowed in today- bloody weather!)
any help is appreciated
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- dell latitude D530
- Memory
- 2gig
- Hard Drives
- sata 120gb