Name: Shifter 2006-09-17 0:43
Dear 4chan BBS I need your help. Recently I had was doing some late night surfing on Youtube.com but it froze on me so I had to force shut it down by depressing the power button on my Dell fro 10 seconds. However, today when I booted up this, the BIOS (with the Dell logo above it) booted up fine but then when the Windows was going to boot up, on a black screen this is what the message said:
"We appologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this.
It your computer stopped responding, restarted unexpectedly, or was automaticlly shutdown to protect your files and folder, choose last known good configuration to revet to the most recent settings that worked.
If a previous start up attempt was interrupted due to a power failure or because the powe or reset button was pressed, or if you aren't sure what caused the problem choose start windows normally
SAFE MODE
SAFE MORE WITH NETWORKING
SAFE MORE WITH COMMAND PROMPT
LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION (YOURE MOST RECENT SETTING THAT WORKED)
START WINDOWS NORAMLLY
Use the up and down arrow keys to move the highlight to your choice"
That's the message that I have recieved, so far I've tried all the opitions and either one of two things will happen, either:
A) Automaticlly reboot and get back to the same screen
-or-
B) I will see the Window logo and the bar loading but soon after it will revert to the same screen.
Please note the following:
A) I CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSING ANY OF THE INFORMATION ON THE HARD DRIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
B) I did not install ANY new hardware or software.
C) I'm still new to computer lingo so keep the lingo simple for me (a simple guy :D)
D)To prevent future problems, what is a good brand of back up hard drives?
"We appologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this.
It your computer stopped responding, restarted unexpectedly, or was automaticlly shutdown to protect your files and folder, choose last known good configuration to revet to the most recent settings that worked.
If a previous start up attempt was interrupted due to a power failure or because the powe or reset button was pressed, or if you aren't sure what caused the problem choose start windows normally
SAFE MODE
SAFE MORE WITH NETWORKING
SAFE MORE WITH COMMAND PROMPT
LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION (YOURE MOST RECENT SETTING THAT WORKED)
START WINDOWS NORAMLLY
Use the up and down arrow keys to move the highlight to your choice"
That's the message that I have recieved, so far I've tried all the opitions and either one of two things will happen, either:
A) Automaticlly reboot and get back to the same screen
-or-
B) I will see the Window logo and the bar loading but soon after it will revert to the same screen.
Please note the following:
A) I CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSING ANY OF THE INFORMATION ON THE HARD DRIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
B) I did not install ANY new hardware or software.
C) I'm still new to computer lingo so keep the lingo simple for me (a simple guy :D)
D)To prevent future problems, what is a good brand of back up hard drives?