Black screen after reboot

[jaww77]

hope someone can help. i am running vista on my pc. after a reboot i get nothing but a black screen. if i go in under safe mode and i try to use a restore point, a disk failure message comes up before restore can complete. could the drive be fried? any help would be appreciated.

 

[Matthew DeCarlo]

Is the drive detected in your BIOS?

 

[jaww77]

thanks

thanks for answering. yes the drive was reconized in BIOS. but when i rebooted again, a gateway repair startup program was available. i ran that program and it fixed the problem for time being. wish i knew the cause tho. thanks

 

[Matthew DeCarlo]

Lucky break, good for you. Hopefully all is well, now.

You may want to run a chkdsk or some other drive diagnostics software to ensure that your drive is not failing. In addition with backing up anything that is absolutely essential (which should be done anyway...).

 

[jaww77]

black screen

backing up now, will run diags when done. thanks for the advice

 

[Matthew DeCarlo]

You're welcome. Good luck.