System Build won't boot properly

KaBone

KaBone

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I built my computer back in February. Things worked fine until recently. Whenever I start it up, I get the Windows screen and I see the status bar scrolling, then it restarts itself, and repeats the cycle. I do notice that everytime this repeats it gets slower and slower.

I tried booting the system recovery program from the Gigabyte utility CD, however I get an error message that there isn't enough room on the hard drive for the program. I think there is plenty of room.

I tried booting from the recovery utility on the Windows CD. But I can't remember the login and password for administrator.

Any suggestions?
 
Trying plugging it into another machine as a secondary hard drive and see if it reads it. Or you can run the disk check on the Windows XP disk but it kind of sucks and I don't remember how to run it.
 
Put the Windows XP disk in and see if you can run a repair. If there is is something wrong with your hdd sometimes it will let you know.
 
Make sure none of the wires in your case aren't pinched. Maybe a hard drive wire is pinched and when the computer tries to boot an OS, it can't get all the info it wants. That's my only idea.
 
ScottALot said:
Make sure none of the wires in your case aren't pinched. Maybe a hard drive wire is pinched and when the computer tries to boot an OS, it can't get all the info it wants. That's my only idea.
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That's ridiculous, pinching wires wont do anything unless it's completely severed

Check the drive in another computer using chkdsk, could be something is corrupted
 
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