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**LClan439** · 05-26-2012, 08:43 PM

OK, try tapping the F8 key when you first turn the computer on, it should give you a boot menu, scroll up to "boot in safe mode" select it, hit enter and see if it will go there.

If it boots into safe mode, run a virus scan and a registry cleaner, when done, reboot to normal mode, it should work.

Oh, if the OS won't boot on the old drive, it's not gonna boot on the new drive.

I got the thing running.

After talking to two different tech guys from the manufacturer, the second one being the brightest, I was able to locate the drive on the machine.
I popped it out and learned that they used a 40gb laptop hard drive to run the thing. So I got an IDE usb hard drive insert so I could run chkdsk on another computer.

The biggest pain is that this computer doesn't have a cd-rom on it. I was told that there is a specific plug to attach another computer to it, but we don't have it.

Any way, after running chkdsk and letting that fix the errors, the damn thing booted. No issues for a few days. I don't trust this thing not to crash so this is my reasoning for creating the clone. The boss doesn't need a machine down for a week or more waiting for a tech to come fix it.

05-26-2012, 08:43 PM	#11
LClan439 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 459 Senior Member	OK, try tapping the F8 key when you first turn the computer on, it should give you a boot menu, scroll up to "boot in safe mode" select it, hit enter and see if it will go there. If it boots into safe mode, run a virus scan and a registry cleaner, when done, reboot to normal mode, it should work. Oh, if the OS won't boot on the old drive, it's not gonna boot on the new drive. I got the thing running. After talking to two different tech guys from the manufacturer, the second one being the brightest, I was able to locate the drive on the machine. I popped it out and learned that they used a 40gb laptop hard drive to run the thing. So I got an IDE usb hard drive insert so I could run chkdsk on another computer. The biggest pain is that this computer doesn't have a cd-rom on it. I was told that there is a specific plug to attach another computer to it, but we don't have it. Any way, after running chkdsk and letting that fix the errors, the damn thing booted. No issues for a few days. I don't trust this thing not to crash so this is my reasoning for creating the clone. The boss doesn't need a machine down for a week or more waiting for a tech to come fix it.
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