Mark Lieberman

Mark Lieberman

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Reply to Installing Windows Blinds has WRECKED my computer!!!!!!!! in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

OK, sounds now more like the OS is hosed and the HDD is OK, based on the restore CD wanting to continue. I have to run out real soon, so if you can quickly tell me, since it's hard to re-read this whole thread quickly, do you have backups of your data files, or are you going to be bad off, to simply start over. Depending on what type of XP CD you have, will be what your ability here to achieve now. Mike from SD supportm asked to try the fixboot and fix MBR commands from booting from a C

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Reply to Installing Windows Blinds has WRECKED my computer!!!!!!!! in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Hope you are not including me in the rants. Have you tried my suggestions. I'm pretty sure a restore CD will simply balk when it gets to a bad HDD. This is one quick and simple test. If you had some sort of access to other CD's that would allow a boot to see NTFS drives, assuming you have NTFS as a file system, would be nice too, just to see if the drive C: contents can be read. (Bart's PE....look this up on Google if you are not familiar). This would take the Operating System out of the equatio

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Reply to Installing Windows Blinds has WRECKED my computer!!!!!!!! in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

My humble opinion is the HDD is toast. Nothing to do with installation causing this either. If a HDD is going to go, it's simply going to happen at the most in-opertune time. If he can only get into the BIOS setup, this pretty much tells me the HDD is gone. If he can get into the BIOS setup, there should be some sort of HDD information there supporting whether or not the disk is good. Another simple test would be to run the restore CD believe it or not, just to see if it even recognizes

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