Cannot Get Past Startup Repair Screen

I assume that the two other towers are complete. (With healthy working HDD's)


Ok, here's my suggestion...

1) Go to a computer store and buy an external enclosure. You should be able to do this for under $20. This will be your only expense at this point. Your HDD is a Sata drive...Tell them that at the store. (Some caddys can take either Sata or Ide drives)

2) Remove the HDD from your sick computer. This is not too difficult to do. Unplug the Data and power cables first. You'll usually see two screws each side of the HDD that hold it in position.

Note: Take all the normal precautions before working inside of the tower. See link below.
http://www.computerrepairmaintenance.com/take-this-precaution-before-working-on-your-computer/

Tip: Work on a wooden table...Not down on the carpet!



3) Once removed, connect the HDD to the external enclosure using the power and data cables. Your external caddy may have either one or two USB connectors...Plug them in to the healthy computer. If the caddy has a power switch...turn it on.

4) With the healthy computer running go Start > Computer and you should see the external drive listed in the same way as any other external media would be.

5) Open the drive (Double click or Right click > Open), find your personal data and back it up (Copy & Paste) to a folder on the healthy drive.

6) Ok, with that done you now have the option to check out the sick drive. Click Start > Computer, Right click on the external drive and choose Properties from the menu. Click on the Tools tab and under Error-checking click Check Now. Put a check mark (Tick) in Automatically fix file system errors and also check mark Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors. Now click Start.

Note: If you are asked to reboot your system...do just that, and when your computer reboots allow it to do its thing...

Be Patient...it may take awhile.

Please let us know how this goes.

Note: If you are not happy with doing any or all of the above, then your only option may be to take your computer to the repair shop and have them look at it for you.

Note: The external enclosure can be used in the future for backing up purposes (Of course your do need a healthy HDD to put in it).

 

ok, im gonna go head and try this in the next few days and post back with results/help.

thanks

 

actually after the startup repair stopped I hit advance settings or whatever it was where the list of options is with system restore, startup repair, windows complete pc restore, command prompt, etc.

I clicked the command prompt and entered chkdsk and it actually ran this time unlike all of the other times I tried.

heres exactly what it says:

X:\windows\system32>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.
The volume is in use by another process. Chkdsk
might report errors when no corruption is present.
Volume label is RECOVERY.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files <stage 1 of 3>...
22080 file records processed.
File verification completed.
176 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.
0 EA records processed.
0 reparse records processed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes <stage 2 of 3>...
83102 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
5 unindexed files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors <stage 3 of 3>...
22080 security descriptors processed.
Security descriptor verification completed.
1455 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
1107864 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems

9904040 KB total disk space.
5389388 KB in 20426 files.
12168 KB in 1456 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
75700 KB in use by the system.
51584 KB occupied by the log file.
4426784 KB available on disk

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
2476010 total allocation units on disk.
1106696 allocation units available on disk
Failed to transfer logged message to the event log with status 50.


Hope this is good news *crosses fingers*

 

anyone?

 

I have not gone back over the entire thread but it seems to me that you need to follow PSEFrank's suggestion and then reinstall windows.

 

yea i plan too, i was just wondering about my last reply if it was good or not? I was told to run the chkdsk before which I couldnt but for some reason I was able too now and posted the results.

 

You need to run ChkDisk on your system drive. Usually 'C' drive, unless you have named your system drive to RECOVERY that is.

 

Alan, before this gets confused, did you miss post 43?

 

Thats where I got my quote from Barry, it refers to the RECOVERY volume, if I read it correctly then he needs to scan the right partition.

Read it again.

 

Sorry about that!

 

how do I run chkdsk in command prompt for the c drive?

 

When the Command Prompt window comes up, at the prompt (>), type: chkdsk c: /r

Take note of space before forward Slash.

 

ok thanks, that worked...heres what came up

X:\windows\system32>chkdsk C: /r
The type of the file system is NTFS.

CHKDSK is verifying files <stage 1 of 5>...
242880 file records processed.
File verification completed.
3010 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.
0 EA records processed.
43 reparse records processed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes <stage 2 of 5>...
875216 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
5 unindexed files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors <stage 3 of 5>...
242880 security descriptors processed.
Security descriptor verification completed.
31979 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
36511680 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data <stage 4 of 5>...
242864 files processed
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the master file table <MFT> bitmap.
Windows had made corrections to the file system

234291959 KB total disk space.
227676480 KB in 179304 files.
199744 KB in 31980 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
365155 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
6050580 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
58572989 total allocation units on disk.
1512645 allocation units available on disk.
Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50.

 

so my hard drive should be ok? just gotta get my files off of it and then re install windows correct?

 

sounds good, thank you guys...

Ill do that next step and report back