Unknown boot failure

Post by **HereComesPete** » May 4th, 2008, 22:12

Help!!!

Started up my pc earlier and got past the usual scrolling of stuff. Then it sits with a blank screen doing nothing. There's no error message regarding a boot problem, just a blank screen.

I then tried a recovery using my xp disk but my admin password isn't recognized. The admin account is to the best of my knowledge disabled and unpassworded.

So I then went for the full repair option and followed the advice listed at this page The problem is that once the install restarted it didn't resume repairing windows, it went bck to the blank screen.

I defragged my hdd last night so it would appear that the computer has fucked itself. The HDD seems fine, I get no error messages from the smart thingy telling me that C is broken in any way.

I'm going to re-try a full repair and if that doesn't work I'm going to run a full re-install.

Before I do that, anyone have any suggestions?

Note, various password finders etc were in my plan before the re-install, but I've got no disks to burn onto and use pre-boot and I can't find my usb pen anywhere, so that method is out the window.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » May 4th, 2008, 22:28

Try:

Recovery console (via a CD boot), then type "chkdsk /r"
It'll scan and repair/recover files on ze drive.

However, after a chkdsk recovery (and saving of docs/passwords/porn etc), it's nuke from orbit time with a full reformat.

Also, what happens if you try and boot into safemode, does it freeze at a file?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 4th, 2008, 22:29

safe mode?

Post by **HereComesPete** » May 4th, 2008, 22:40

Safe mode grants me a big long list of drivers as per. It then stops at system32\drivers\jgogo.sys which leads me to believe my jmicron drivers have fallen over. They may well be on my mobo disk so I'll try the recovery blah from that disk before I nuke.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 4th, 2008, 22:51

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=478241

when you boot into safemode, can you skip jogogo.sys?

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » May 4th, 2008, 22:54

Yeap, that's definitely something unique to your computer.

Chkdsk /r still might fix it though if it's got slightly confused. Might as well give it a shot.

Post by **HereComesPete** » May 4th, 2008, 22:55

Any advice on how to delete the jgogo files? Apparently it's a raid controller file and seeing as how I'm not using raid it could be that deleting it would fix the problem.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 4th, 2008, 22:58

http://www.ubcd4win.com/ might be handy, but fuckall use to you.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 4th, 2008, 23:00

buzzmong wrote:Chkdsk /r still might fix it though if it's got slightly confused. Might as well give it a shot.

could work, maybe.

Post by **Dog Pants** » May 4th, 2008, 23:03

CIIJASIIE?

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » May 4th, 2008, 23:11

Bum it in the gob

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » May 4th, 2008, 23:15

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:could work, maybe.

It's a touch and go thing really, all depends on how it's broken the files, but it's probably one of the easiest steps as it won't boot into Windoze.

It won't break anything either, as it's trying to fix already broken stuffs, it's saved my bacon before.

Post by **HereComesPete** » May 4th, 2008, 23:36

Gah, it won't let me delete the bloody file through the recovery console, I'm fairly sure it should because it's in the system directory.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 4th, 2008, 23:47

maybe a linux livecd?

but then, could fuck shit up in other ways

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » May 4th, 2008, 23:52

Can ye make a MS-DOS boot disk?

Stick floppy in, right click format on A: (or whatever floppy is), and choose MS-DOS startup disk.

That'll let you delete the file.

It STILL might fuck shit up though, as the file will be missing, rather than there and not-working.

Post by **HereComesPete** » May 5th, 2008, 0:02

I am non floppy. (tee hee)

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 5th, 2008, 0:05

my lazy fuck get-out in this situation would be installing windows over the top, backing up everything you need and doing a clean install.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » May 5th, 2008, 0:06

Try chkdsk /r then.

Unless you happen to have another PC (not lappy) to connect the HDD to, which you'll need to set as slave etc....

Post by **HereComesPete** » May 5th, 2008, 0:21

Running chkdsk now. It's going very slowly, but I'm hoping I won't need to move the hdd to another pc because I don't have another box set up. I'd have to head back to kv's and plug it in there. Thankfully it's sata so there's no mucking about with master/slave.

If I re-install windows over the top without a format am I right in thinking it'll replace the system files but leave the rest of the stuff on the c drive alone? Problem here is that the jmicron stuff isn't on my xp disk, it's third party so it may just have the exact same problem.

I'm thinking grab a cable that's usb to sata, if they exist. This would allow me to plug it into a lappy and delete the fucking bastarding cunting bastard fucker of a raid driver, which I don't even fucking use.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » May 5th, 2008, 0:25

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?Mod ... &U=strat15

Apparently they do exist.

Edit: And on Amazon.co.uk there are loads, ranging from a fiver to 30 quid.