Repair disk won't load

Hello again- I believe something is seriously wrong with my computer. My windows 7 disk won't boot up for repair. It's stuck at the loading screen for hours until i get impatient and shut it off.

any possible causes for the repair disk to not load?

VespaHive said:

Hello again- I believe something is seriously wrong with my computer. My windows 7 disk won't boot up for repair. It's stuck at the loading screen for hours until i get impatient and shut it off.

any possible causes for the repair disk to not load?

Lots


Bad media (DVD), dust in the dvd player, trying to boot from within win 7, etc

Could we get more info?????


Ken

I think the disk is fine- other disks such as linux live CD's won't fully load either. The loading bar for the windows repair goes about 1/10 of the way before stopping. Disks appear to be read just fine from within windows.

I'm not too sure what else I could say.

Lemur said:

Make sure you select boot from CD first, and not from HDD

did that- the disk boots but doesn't fully load

DocBrown said:

Do you have a 2nd monitor or TV connected ? Any excess USB peripherials ?

No, unless you count my laptop power cord

Would you prefer if I made a youtube video to show you how it's booting?

Lemur said:

If it won't boot anything, including linux live, you could try cleaning the optical drive. If you can boot off the usb, this again would point to the drive. I guess memory could be an issue as well.

How do you clean the optical drive, that's the issue?