[RESOLVED] Problem after repair

[Cant-Fix-It]

Hi all,

I was repairing the windows xp installation of a laptop i have, first of i got a blue screen of death regarding my video card, i restarted and was fine and continued with the installation, only problem is it isn't doing anything, i can move the cursor so hasn't crashed but it's not reading from the disc to finish the installation.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Rocketmech]

Without knowing the why of doing a repair, you might want to run a memory and hard drive diagnostic before going any further. There is no sense repairing Windows if the hardware is bad. Check out UBCD, it has all the tools you'll need.

[Cant-Fix-It]

Thanks Rocketmech

The reason i repaired windows was there was a missing file, i am trying to download UBCD but everytime i click on download it takes me to an IT page? can anyone tell me where the download link is please.

Thanks

[SpywareDr]

The download links are on the following page in the "Mirror Sites" section:

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html

[Cant-Fix-It]

Thanks spywareDr was just about to edit as i found them

Another problem, i have just booted the laptop, chose diagnostic, then hard drive but the hd in the laptop is a toshiba and toshiba isn't in the list

[Cant-Fix-It]

Scanned the drive, all was fine, any other way to get windows to carry on with the repair?

[usil]

Have you tried a different Windows CD?

[photolady]

Make sure your cd is clean of fingerprints or smudges and clean your drive with a cd lens cleaner also. Dust and fingerprints/smudges will stop a windows cd from loading and installing properly.

[Cant-Fix-It]

Cleaned and tried another disc, but just hangs at 39 minutes

[Cant-Fix-It]

I am now getting a blue screen 'video driver failed ti initialize' i can download the driver from toshiba's website, would i be able to somehow install this onto the drive even though windows isn't properly on it yet?

[Rocketmech]

Did you run a memory test, ex. Memtest86+ ?

Try using Seatools, it should run a SMART test and give some indication if the drive is failing.

[Broni]

Did you check this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828267/en-us ?

[Cant-Fix-It]

Just going to run a memtest & hard drive test (already run one hd test going to run another)

Thanks for the link Broni, will give that a read also

[Cant-Fix-It]

Thanks for the help

I decided to format and start over in the end.