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Laptop in startup loop
First off, I'm helping my brother to post from another computer on another network because this forum blocks both of his accounts "whitebeard" and "marineford" within 1 minute of account activation for "spamming" and "already banned". So if any of the adminstrators sees this, please unban him.
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Hi, I'm using Acer Aspire 4741G. I force shutdown my laptop when it was semi-lagging and freezing after I opened my internet browsers. After that, it always boot to the system recovery options window.
I used the Startup Repair option, and the diagnosis shows a bunch of error code = 0x0, and the root cause found was:
No OS files found on disk.
Repair action: partition table repair
Result: Failed. Error code = 0x490
And unfortunately I have not created a restore point before in order for System Restore to work.
I looked up your forum for some solutions and found this:
Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery
Upon using the command prompt I found that the drive with all my documents is now D instead of C, but when I enter the command "cd/windows/system32/config" I get "the request could not be performed because of an I\O device error"
How do I know if my hard drive is still readable?
Is it possible to copy out the documents I need to a USB thumbdrive or DVD?
Is it possible to fix this without reformatting?
I have a blank rewritable DVD, but not an external HDD
I do not have a Windows 7 installation or recovery disk, the laptop is pre-installed with one.
My BIOS boot priority order has the following options:
IDE 0: WDC WD5000BEVT-22A0RT0-(S1
IDE CD/DVD: MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ890AS-(S
Network Boot: MBA v12.2.2 Slot 0300
USB HDD:
USB FDD:
USB KEY
USB CD/DVD:
I think the IDE CD/DVD is the CD drive, so I switched it to the first position, burned the last item from this site:
Free download Magic Partition Manager Software, partition magic alternative, free partition magic, partition magic Windows 7 and server partition software - Partition Wizard Online using another computer to try and boot from it, but it doesn't work. I don't see the message prompting the boot from CD, and it brings me to the System Recovery Options window again.
I can't get the Safe Mode menu to appear despite pressing/tapping/holding f8.
Last edited by Glyticia; 07 Dec 2012 at 05:04. Reason: Grammar Error