Hey guys
My computer died yesterday, just died. I tried many times to just reboot and it comes to a screen that gives me these options, start in safe mode, start in safe mode with cache, some other safe mode and a start with ur last known good setting.

It wont let me do a single one of them, I push enter on any of them and it reads like 50 lines of code and it goes to a blue screen that just says windows isnt working and what to do (the options given above, none work) is says the ERROR is

BOOT_VOLUME something, cant remember exactly but something about boot volume

Now I really just my old pc back to get my files and pictures of my girl and such but I cant get it.

Ive tried rebooting with a windows xp reformat disk in the drive and it just doesnt work, does nothing, doesnt read it before the blue screen comes a driving and making me scream

$5 Paypal to anyone who gets this working. I need help

Thanks guys

 

is it set to boot from cd? when u turn on ur pc. keep hitting f8 till that screen comes up. and set it to boot from cd.
then restart it.

sounds to me like u got a corrupt windows system. you should be able to do it. but if u cant. and u dont care bout ur files. just connect ther hard drive to another computer not as the primary. but as the slave. and reformat it through

start > control panel > administrative tools > computer management.

then select storage. and reformat

 

sounds to me like a hardware problem. Make sure all of your fans are spinning!

 

download knoppix. Its a linux distro where you can run directly off the CD. Make sure your bios is set up so you can boot of cds. Then knoppix should automaticly mount the NTFS partition for read only. Get the files you need and burn them onto cd's. fdisk the whole drive using knoppix.

commandline:

fdisk -l (list all drives and partions)
fdisk (the hard drive name stated in fdisk -l)
fdisk -d (delete all the partions)

I think thats the fdisk commands computers suck.

 

winxp diskettes dont work\
put in the winxp cd and load the setup program when ur computer boots


if it doesnt prompt you for the cd start go in the bios and select the cd as the first bootable device

 

I dont get how to start it from a cd, dont know what bios are, im not great with pcs, just general ----. Ive got a legit xp disk though, just that dam blue screen comes up with every option

 

when the screen comes up. everything is pretty straighforward and easy to figure out. its in the boot settings.

 

pm me your number ill call you tonight

 

Alright Ill try smacking f8 when irestart

I think I tried that though, definetely tried it, goes to the option screen and nothing works

AH!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Why don't you just pull the hard drive and connect it to your working computer? You don't need to boot from it to retrieve files. That's by far the easiest thing to do.