04-14-2011, 07:36 AM
More wonderful problems from me, this time in the form of a dead PC (again) (For that matter I'm probably loosing my Gmail acocunt to a keylogger on the school network as we speak but I'm out of options.)
Anyway, the problem is that my PC is failing to boot, if I let it start normaly it goes to a black screen and hangs. If I try to launch the Windows Repair Tool the screen flashes then resets the timer on the auto-select. I've had a simmilar problem before, where windows wouldn't boot and it would lock-up at start-up like that and it was caused by a DLL failing to load and a format fixed it. (The bug is suposeably caused by windows update corrupting Disk Check on Vista) However, The Repair tool failing to launch is a new symptom and I fear I might not beable to format this time. Has anyone had a similar problem or can offer help? I don't want to format but I can if I have to. (Though I think I'm out of re-installs for somthing...)
EDIT: I've yet to try Safemode but if it's simmilar to the previous bug (Which I have no reason to doubt it isn't, only thing that's changed since last restart was windows decided to update it's self while I was sleeping.) Safemode will only show that a DLL (that I can't remember the name of) is hanging
Another Note: Is is at all possible to copy files from one place on my PC to another location without loading up windows? or is that impossibe? I'd like to save as much as I can to either the D Partition (which for some reason survives formats) or a flashdrive. (Sorry for spelling, school PCs use IE and there's no spell check and right now there's a nifty bug that's making the text damn near impossible to read.)
Anyway, the problem is that my PC is failing to boot, if I let it start normaly it goes to a black screen and hangs. If I try to launch the Windows Repair Tool the screen flashes then resets the timer on the auto-select. I've had a simmilar problem before, where windows wouldn't boot and it would lock-up at start-up like that and it was caused by a DLL failing to load and a format fixed it. (The bug is suposeably caused by windows update corrupting Disk Check on Vista) However, The Repair tool failing to launch is a new symptom and I fear I might not beable to format this time. Has anyone had a similar problem or can offer help? I don't want to format but I can if I have to. (Though I think I'm out of re-installs for somthing...)
EDIT: I've yet to try Safemode but if it's simmilar to the previous bug (Which I have no reason to doubt it isn't, only thing that's changed since last restart was windows decided to update it's self while I was sleeping.) Safemode will only show that a DLL (that I can't remember the name of) is hanging
Another Note: Is is at all possible to copy files from one place on my PC to another location without loading up windows? or is that impossibe? I'd like to save as much as I can to either the D Partition (which for some reason survives formats) or a flashdrive. (Sorry for spelling, school PCs use IE and there's no spell check and right now there's a nifty bug that's making the text damn near impossible to read.)