Stuck at "Starting Windows"

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Lolman

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Well my computer has been quite buggy the last few months with crashes etc. Yesterday I moved it to play at a friends house and it crashed and now whenever I turn it on it is stuck on starting windows. I tried system restoring it 10 days didn't work. I tried replugging all the stuff and also letting system recovery fix it but it said this computer can not be fixed automatically. And leaving it on starting windows for 30 mins didbt work. Any suggestions?? Also strangely the windows logo doesn't appear...
 
tremmor said:
Will it start up in safe mode?
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No. It does not start in safe mode, when I press F8 spammed, it does allow me the options with safe mode etc. But when I choose safe mode, it just sits there with a black screen. But the computer sounds very loud. The fans are clearly spinning mega fast. I have a feeling it's to do with the hard drives. It's running RAID.0.
 
update: Now it when it starts it goes through those usual start up checks but at the end it says "missing operating system".
 
Could be a driver issue. maybe something with the RAID controller. Yoiu might want to check out UBCD4Win or Hirens boot CD. If you can boot the CD and access the drive perhaps you could invoke a sfc/scan now.

Hard drive could be going out too.
 
Heh. I've been having constant problems with this rig for the past 5 months. I've just purchased a new computer. What I'll do is remove the Hard Drive and try sell the rest of it online. Thanks guys.

ps, How can I access the harddrives and take out the data before i destroy them?
 
Once the other machine is up and running you should be able to just hook it up like any other hard drive. You might have to assign a drive letter to it in order for the computer to see the disk. You can do that in disk management.
 
One or both of the drives are probably failing. I would run disk diagnostic on them individually. What brand of drives are they?
 
Heh. I don't really want to go through all the trouble.

So do yous reckon it's the Hard Drives? So if I just pull them out, and sell the computer without the Hard drives, the problem will stop and won't affect the potential new owner that purchases it?
 
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Lolman said:
Heh. I don't really want to go through all the trouble.

So do yous reckon it's the Hard Drives? So if I just pull them out, and sell the computer without the Hard drives, the problem will stop and won't affect the potential new owner that purchases it?
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This will probably sound rude, why even bother asking then? We can blindly just say 'aww yea it's the hard drive bro' instead of you explicitly verifying the issue, if that's really how you want to do things..

Also, where did selling the PC come into play here? You could simply replace the likely failing/failed hard drive and have a usable PC. It'd also be worth running Memtest86+ but it sounds like you can't be bothered to actually fix things.
 
Running the diagnostic isn't that hard. Running raid 0 isn't ideal unless you have a backup solution in place to image your install. With Raid 0, if 1 drive fails you lose all your data.
 
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