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Originally Posted by sparky
I think my laptop has had it.
I tried to turn it on, and this strange black and white screen pops up that says Windows did not start successfully. Then, it tells me to pick Safe Mode, Start Windows Normally, Last Known Good Configuration or a few others. None work. The windows XP screen comes up, a strange bright blue screen with a bunch of gibberish on it flickers for a second, then it is back to the black and white screen.
So, I have all the System Recovery cds that came with the computer. The catch ? My cd rom croaked weeks ago and I haven't had time to get it fixed.
So, even if I go buy a peripheral cdrom to plug into the back to try and run these system restore things, the computer is not going to recognize the new hardware and I doubt I will be able to run them.
This all started last week when I removed this annoying Aurora adware that had gotten into my system. I ran adaware, ewido and all my other spyware removal things, and the computer has been slow and wacky ever since.
All right you computer geniuses....just how screwed am I ?
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The one thing I can think of that might work is taking the hard drive out of the laptop and hooking it up to a desktop system (may need an adapter for this because the number of pins is probably different and I have no idea what it's called
but I bet you could find one at a compusa or even office depot), and then using the backup CDs on it with the PC's working CD drive. I've seen this done before, never done it myself, but I know for a fact it is possible to hook the drive up to another computer and access it. The good news is it doesn't sound like a physical crash... unless the backup CDs don't work.
Best of luck to you...