Repair installation I am trying to do a repair installation on my laptop. I have seen the BSOD and know that I must boot my laptop from cd-rom. I have begun doing this however, when I put the CD in the laptop starts up and goes into a blank black screen. I still hear the cd working in the cd-rom but thats it. The blank screen is all that i see, I kept my laptop on for hours and it was only the black screen I saw. can you help me??

Take one bootable windows cd rom , insert the cd rom in cd rom drive, restart your Laptop , go to bios setup and select boot from cd rom after then save and exit . your Laptop will boot from cd rom . it will take some time , when you will see action prompt , select R ( if your bootable windows cd rom is SP2 ) , select D ( if your bootable windows cd rom is SP3) . if you select R you will be prompt repair consoul , format C:\ then instal windows SP2 . if you select D , you will be prompt delite partition , delite partition C:\ after then select C to creat partition and install windows SP3. either of one windows install like that and problem will be solved. n.b. if you don,t have cd rom drive pls collect USB cd rom drive.

If you have the windows vista ultimate dvd then boot from it and do a recover!

if it did turn off with a bsod(blue screen of death) then the problem was with ur hardware or the hardware drivers in this case the rom drive
consider a replacement of the drive if it's in warranty but before that try updating the drivers of the rom

So many computer face this blue screen fetal errors on windows.

This error comes usually when there is problem in software or driver compatibility issue with hardware or operating system.
Also this error comes when there is bed indexing unit in hard drive.
You can solve this errors with following 2 methods.
(1)When you power up the computer press F8 key then enter in safe mode.
Then if you are able to enter in safe mode then uninstall driver or software which you installed recently and face this error.
(2)If you are not able to enter in safe mode Then you need to fix error on hard drive.For that you need windows disk or recovery disk.
Boot your computer with that disk
For that when you power up the computer press F1 or F2 "del" key to enter in bios.
Then go to boot menu and set first boot device as your cd or dvd rom.
Then save settings and exit bios.
Insert windows disk in cd /dvd rom.
Then it boot with that disk.Then you get this message "Press any key to boot from cd.."
Then press any key.
Then follow the procedure then enter in recovery console mode then type in prompt "chkdsk /r"
Then type "y"
Then it fix error on hard drive.
Then check if again you are not able to enter in windows then boot again and this time choose "R" option for repair previous windows " then it repairs old windows then it loads again old windows.
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First thoroughly clean the XP install disc and try it again. If it still does BSOD you can start eliminating causes: do a scandisk on the hard drive, take out one stick of RAM at a time etc.

If you have (or can borrow) a USB CD-ROM drive you can try booting that way as well. It has to be some piece of hardware, hopefully it is just one of those pieces which are relatively inexpensive and easy to try.

to reset the BIOS, there is a small battery somewhere in your computer. if you unplug it for 3 seconds, it will reset the BIOS. I RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO NOT TRY THIS! get a service professional. If this doesn't work you might need to get a new laptop.

You need winxp bootable disk for format or repair your winxp.
Then boot your computer with that disk.
For that when you power up the computer press F1 or F2 or "del" key to enter in bios .
Then set first boot device in bot option as your cd or dvd rom.Then save settings .
Then put your disk in rom then it boot with it.

Hi.
Can you please give me full details on what the problem is, the BSOD, does it appear after the boot is finished and loading the OS?
Does the OS start and then get the BSOD, ETC.
If You have the original install cd, enter your bios and at BOOT DEVICES [OR BOOT SETTINGS] make sure that the first device to boot from is your cd/dvd etc, Put The Cd of the OS in the cd/rom and restart the machine, it will hopefully start the instalation of windows do not tell the program to install a fresh copy, but rather use the R for repair.
If that does not work or you still have problems it sounds like it's time for a new instal of windows, the BSOD [Blue Screen Of Death] pops up when files get damaged, if you overclock without checking everything voltages, fans, TEMPERATURE of CPU etc.
Also can you please tell me how long ago the system was activated, and what if anything did you do or were working on when you got this BSOD.
What the OS you are using is can help also, and is it sp1? sp2? sp3? for win XP even vista is up to SP1 already for a supposed new os from ms.
HTH
Zues

Solution:
use the following steps below:

Start your computer with the Windows startup disks, or
with the Windows CD-ROM if your computer can start from
the CD-ROM drive.
When the Welcome to Setup screen appears, press R to
select the repair option.
If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select
the Windows installation that you want to access from the
Recovery Console.
Type the administrator password when you are prompted to
do so.

If no administrator password exists, press ENTER.
At the command prompt, on the drive where Windows is
installed, type chkdsk /f/r, and then press ENTER.
At the command prompt, type exit, and then press ENTER to
restart your computer
But if you dont have the operating system cd, you will have to remove the hard drive connect it to another machine and perform the steps above and then connect it back and it should work.

Regards,
Yateesh Varma.

OK, that screen is the bios for the laptop. Don't do anything in there. (except check under boot and make sure the boot order is cd then hard drive) Once the boot order is correct, just boot from the cd rom, and to do a repair, just keep continuing past where you are asked to enter F-8, the next screen will offer a repair for the windows installation- press R. That keeps your files and programs, but reinstalls windows. Good luck