What's Bugging You Today? Volume 3, Part 1

[Samba De Amiga]

Is the hard drive making a clicking sound? Is the computer not turning on? Is it saying there's no boot media when you power it up? What do you mean by died?

When you boot it up, it goes to the password screen. After you do that, it says explorer has performed an illegal operation and dies. I've done scans and all of the troubleshooting stuff to no avail. I haven't had a chance to really mess with it yet, so I'm gonna sit down and tackle it this weekend and see if there's anything that can be done.

I'm usually pretty good with this sort of thing, but if any of you guys have had similar things happen or have any advice, please share

[Thief Silver]

Have you tried safe mode?

[Samba De Amiga]

Not yet, but that's the first thing I will be doing when I get home tonight.

[Thief Silver]

Yeah if it works there it could be a number of corruptions, you may want to do a system restore to a previous moment and you might fix it.

If safe mode fails too then it's officially dead, but I think you'll just want to backup your data and reformat.

[Samba De Amiga]

I'll be fine with it as long as I can retrieve the files on the hard drive. It just sucks, but it was bound to happen.

[MechDeus]

When you boot it up, it goes to the password screen. After you do that, it says explorer has performed an illegal operation and dies.

What do you mean by "dies?" Shuts off, power cycles, the program freezes up, Windows freezes up, goes to a black screen while the power light remains on, etc.?

I've done scans and all of the troubleshooting stuff to no avail. I haven't had a chance to really mess with it yet, so I'm gonna sit down and tackle it this weekend and see if there's anything that can be done.

Odds are your hard drive is fine and Windows has gotten fucked, which means your earlier idea of hooking it up to another PC should work just fine. It still boots up and there's no weird sounds so I'm willing to bet all your data is there. You could probably even pick up a USB external case and just pop it in for quick easy use.

Do you have a Windows CD? If so there are a few things you can do to try and find out if there are any issues with the hard drive and possibly even do a Windows repair.

[Samba De Amiga]

By dies I mean freezes up and does nothing. Just sits there until I power it off.

[MechDeus]

By dies I mean freezes up and does nothing. Just sits there until I power it off.

You may have a couple bad sectors but yeah, the hard drive should still be in overall good condition and easy to rescue stuff off of.

Which is more than I can say for the hard drive I had to deal with yesterday, that one's heading off to a data recovery service. Even freezing it overnight didn't do shit.

[B-Ri]

I was woken up today by the women once again!

"wake up wake up youre late for class, wake up" bang bang bang on teh door.

Its 8am, its friday, i dont have class till 2pm.


..... ugh

[kingoffighters]

Who are these women again?