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82vwabbit
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_ 		24. April 2008 @ 08:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
just built my computer last week, it has been running fine for me, now last night while i was working my wife said something had come up saying about updating your computer, and she pushed for it to restart later a few times, then finally pushed for it to reboot now. and when it did so, it is now asking for a boot disk, to boot windows from, what the heck happend, im attempting to use the windows disk but it wants me to reinstall windows i dont know what happend? any ideas.
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ddp
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_ 		24. April 2008 @ 13:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
does the bios see the hard drive? does it come up with a menu for safemode, normal, vga mode, last known working configuration or what?
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82vwabbit
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_ 		24. April 2008 @ 16:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
there is nothing about safe mode, i went BIOS and selected load fail-safe defaults, and now i am geting a screen that says select which operating system to start then imediatly flashes over to a new screen. says Windowws could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.
thats what it tells me, no idea what happend...
Mitch
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ddp
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_ 		24. April 2008 @ 22:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
looks like you'll have to reload windows. do you have a spare hd or can borrow 1 if you want to safe your info off the sick hd?
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82vwabbit
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_ 		24. April 2008 @ 23:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
im at a point with it where i dont even have the option to reload windows, it wont boot from disk without going into this error. all i can do is go into bios, save and exit and then it will go restart and go right into the error message again.
Mitch
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WD 500gb
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_ 		24. April 2008 @ 23:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
make certain the rom drive is the 1st boot drive before the hd not after.
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_ 		25. April 2008 @ 20:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The cd drive might be dead which could be causing the cd to not boot, I had one go bad on me recently.
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82vwabbit
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_ 		25. April 2008 @ 21:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i put cd rom to load 1st, then it starts to load cd then asks me to choose something to setup gives me about 1 second to choose then goes right over to the error message.
Mitch
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Intel e2160
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WD 500gb
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