Hardware or OS?

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Nick

Hi folks

I get an error whenever I start up my Laptop. The unusal
thing is that the POST is fine but I don't get
the "Loading Windows" progress bar down bottom, and I
don't get the F8 advanced options as well. I hunted high
and low on the knowledge base the closest I could find
related to Windows 2000 and not XP.

My Laptop specs are
Acer 534LC travelmate
40Gig HDD, CDRW/DVD combo, 256Mb DDR PC2100 RAM,
Pentium 4 M - 2.2Ghz CPU, 4 in 1 memory card reader.

Cheers
Nick
 
Sounds like your OS has become corrupted. First thing I
would try, get a bootable floppy disk, (Win98/Win98) boot
from the floppy. At the floppy run "fdisk" without
the ". Select the options to look at partitions and see
if the hard drive even shows up, if it does, you have a
corrupted OS, if not then your hardware is causing the
problem. If it's just OS, reinstall your OS, if it's
hardware, you may have to take it somewhere for service.
I wouldn't advise trying to take a laptop apart unless you
are "VERY" computer savi. Good luck.
 
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