[RESOLVED] Problem after repair

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

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.

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

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

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

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 :confused:

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

Have you tried a different Windows CD?

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

Thanks for the help :D

I decided to format and start over in the end.