Hello All,
Last night I was using my somewhat older computer that has windows xp professional SP2 on it. I like to power it on from time to time so I can keep it updated. After doing so..I decided to defragment the hard drive, I first ran the analyze mode to see what it said. It informed me that I didn't need to defragment at this time, but as I saw some 'red' areas shown ( fragmented files ) I decided to go ahead and defragment anyway. Everything seemed to be going ok till I reached about the 70% level. Then I heard my hard drive make two 'clunking' sounds, but it did finally finish the defrag process. I didn't think anymore about it till this morning when I booted up the computer. At the windows xp boot screen, the blue bar moved across like normal, then there was a seemingly long pause before anything happened. Then the blue welcome screen appeared, but instead of having the correct readable fonts displayed, it had weird fonts and symbols displayed, like a different language or something. I tried restarting the system, and pressed F8 and chose 'last known good configuration, the most recent settings that worked mode'. I had hoped that would correct my problem, but it didn't..does anyone have any suggestions as to how to correct this ? I was trying to get to my system restore area, but couldn't find it so far. Thanks for any help..
David
Last night I was using my somewhat older computer that has windows xp professional SP2 on it. I like to power it on from time to time so I can keep it updated. After doing so..I decided to defragment the hard drive, I first ran the analyze mode to see what it said. It informed me that I didn't need to defragment at this time, but as I saw some 'red' areas shown ( fragmented files ) I decided to go ahead and defragment anyway. Everything seemed to be going ok till I reached about the 70% level. Then I heard my hard drive make two 'clunking' sounds, but it did finally finish the defrag process. I didn't think anymore about it till this morning when I booted up the computer. At the windows xp boot screen, the blue bar moved across like normal, then there was a seemingly long pause before anything happened. Then the blue welcome screen appeared, but instead of having the correct readable fonts displayed, it had weird fonts and symbols displayed, like a different language or something. I tried restarting the system, and pressed F8 and chose 'last known good configuration, the most recent settings that worked mode'. I had hoped that would correct my problem, but it didn't..does anyone have any suggestions as to how to correct this ? I was trying to get to my system restore area, but couldn't find it so far. Thanks for any help..
David