accidentally posted this first in the BSOD area:
Hi all, here's my problem,
power accidentally got cut to my pc and now it won't boot. I get the "windows not successfully starting" black page loop, then if I try to boot to my reinstall disk it says there's no hard drive even though BIOS recognizes it and the diagnostic utility says it passes. Not really sure what to do and don't have another machine handy to download/burn other possible fixes.
At first the issue was the floppy not found message but I reset the boot sequence and that was fixed. It also sometimes says that the system power is low. Did the hard drive get fried? please help!
thanks
btw
dell dimesion 8400 about 5 yrs old, but with some newer components
hard drive is a few months old
intel pentium 4
Hi all, here's my problem,
power accidentally got cut to my pc and now it won't boot. I get the "windows not successfully starting" black page loop, then if I try to boot to my reinstall disk it says there's no hard drive even though BIOS recognizes it and the diagnostic utility says it passes. Not really sure what to do and don't have another machine handy to download/burn other possible fixes.
At first the issue was the floppy not found message but I reset the boot sequence and that was fixed. It also sometimes says that the system power is low. Did the hard drive get fried? please help!
thanks
btw
dell dimesion 8400 about 5 yrs old, but with some newer components
hard drive is a few months old
intel pentium 4