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Windows 7 Home on a Dell Studio 540 Desktop repeated crash troubles
I have been having serious trouble keeping my system stable over the last few months. I had to format HDD and reinstall the OS a couple of times and also restore it to factory settings another couple of times. Today im unable to do any of those. I have no support left from Dell on the page they used to have for doing the restore to factory settings.. I read somewhere they had discontinued support last April 24. The instructions on site to do a Dell Factory Image Recovery is no longer available either. Today i tried to follow the advice on how to do both and I get NO FACTORY RESTORE OPTION. The WIN SETUP does not load and i get this error message >> Status: 0xc00000e9 Info: An unexpected I/O error has occurred. and in Windows Boot Manager im given no options either and there the error code is Status: 0xc000000f Info: the boot selection failed cause a required device is inaccessible. This is driving me insane, i have tried to boot with the Re-installation CD that came with the PC. nothing doing. I tried to reboot with the "recovery disks 1 # 2" that i made at the beginning prompted by Dell which supposedly would haelp me boot in cases like this. Nothing happens. Tried the resource CD. Made an image recovery which says it has been done and saved on external drives i have.. but cannot or dont know how to use it for booting and/or re-installation purposes. I also made a back up copy of the whole HD. hard drives seem to be healthy according to what Windows itself tells me.
Either my ignorance is deeper of what I thought or Windows 7 Home 64-bit on my PC is really screwed or a combination of both.
Could anyone with experience walk me through this maze with simple steps that maybe could work?
Additionally which is the simplest and most proven way to come back from a windows crash?
If back up is not helping me under the circumstances, im lost for words as to how to cover my PC my future OS crashes
I would now appreciate any help i could get from generous persons willling to help. Im not too savvy with computers as im a pensioner who saw his first computer at age 45.
Note 1: PC is 15 months old and out of factory warranty.
Note 2: it does start in safe mode (I am using it to write this)
Thank you kindly
Last edited by MSwhip; 25 May 2011 at 03:17. Reason: correction