Driver failure on boot causing black screen

ICIT2LOL · 18 May 2014

Ok Dig mate try these SeaTools for Windows | Seagate this will check the drive in general and

Best Free Partition Manager Freeware and free partition magic for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista and Windows XP 32 bit & 64 bit. MiniTool Free Partition Manager Software Home Edition. < this will check the physical properties of the spinning disk and the read / write heads see pic of how to run.

pS Witht the SSD I meant to say in the pic it checks the sectors as there are no moving parts

Dig03 · 20 May 2014

Seatools gave me the all clear, on all tests, so I don't know what exactly could cause it, maybe the hardware is just worn out as it is an old notebook?

ICIT2LOL · 20 May 2014

Dig did you run that surface scan mate as if you are suspecting age to be the problem it should come up as bad or having a lot of errors on it's physical surface.

ROBBYPB1 · 20 May 2014

Hi...i'm having similar problem and i suspect it is a regristry problem....try tapping F8....until repair computer...find option in the advance restore and click command prompt...type regedit.....click local machine...software.....microsoft.....windows nt.....current version....find the sheel file double click it and see if it says explorer.exe...and the value has to be 0..if it doesnt say explorer.exe that may be your problem...good luck and deep breath

ROBBYPB1 · 20 May 2014

sorry it should of said shell file not sheel

ROBBYPB1 · 20 May 2014

Hi..I think I've found our answer because it just finished working for me...please turn on power tap F8..until repair computer..enter when the repair-restore window appears click command prompt....type regedit then type chkdsk...if the result says f parameter not specified...type chkdsk/r and watch it go like crazy through 1000s of files for quite a while..if you dont get proper result tye chkdsk/f and one of these im pretty sure will take care of it..good luck

ROBBYPB1 · 20 May 2014

sorry i forgot to include chkdsk /f c:

Dig03 · 20 May 2014

ICit2lol: surface test gave it the all clear, twice
ROBBYPB1: I'll try another CHKDSK, thanks.

ROBBYPB1 · 20 May 2014

also try...google lexington computer repair blog...sovlved sfc ...there is a repair pending....if you get this message. if not you also can try http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic...ions-help...if you get a error 1639 message and this will fix it.....i'll keep looking for answers for us as im still not totaly in the clear...if you have time maybe you can tell me how you're doing and maybe we will cross the finishing line together

ICIT2LOL · 21 May 2014

ROBBYPB1 said:

Hi..I think I've found our answer because it just finished working for me...please turn on power tap F8..until repair computer..enter when the repair-restore window appears click command prompt....type regedit then type chkdsk...if the result says f parameter not specified...type chkdsk/r and watch it go like crazy through 1000s of files for quite a while..if you dont get proper result tye chkdsk/f and one of these im pretty sure will take care of it..good luck

Yes well if you look that is what I did ask Dig to do that in post#2 but I suppose I should have been a little more explicit and include that in that tutorial Option 2 there are the /f and /r options which have worked on a number of occasions for fixes I have done as well as on my own machines.

It is as well to have another look too in that tutorial to see how to type that in the command line as the drive letter comes before the /f and /r and you can type both in and not have to run /f then /r separately. Disk Check