So I put in a recovery disc, and it just keeps rebooting everything...help?
I get this screen that says "Pri. Master disk HDD S.M.A.R.T" among other things, then the windows xp loading screen, then a blue screen, and then it reboots...it just keeps doing that
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when u put a recovery disc n restart ur computer n look fast ur supposed to hit one of the F buttonz on ur keyboard thats how it is for me when i do it and den it gives u a few seconds to choose ur optionz.
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Quote: from jessikita89 at 5:24 pm on Nov. 11, 2008
when u put a recovery disc n restart ur computer n look fast ur supposed to hit one of the F buttonz on ur keyboard thats how it is for me when i do it and den it gives u a few seconds to choose ur optionz.
i thought it was F8?
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Quote: from jessikita89 at 5:24 pm on Nov. 11, 2008
when u put a recovery disc n restart ur computer n look fast ur supposed to hit one of the F buttonz on ur keyboard thats how it is for me when i do it and den it gives u a few seconds to choose ur optionz.
i thought it was F8?
I think it's F8 too. But yeah, you have to press one of the F keys at a certain point so it doesn't do that.
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SMART is the HDD automatic diag system. If its failing, you might have a bad HDD. Your going to need to use some sort of diag tool to determine the status of your HDD. I recommend DFT. Google it, burn it to a disk and run it.
Once you know the HDD is good, pound the F1-F12 keys durning start up and you'll get to your bios so you can change the boot order.
SMART is the HDD automatic diag system. If its failing, you might have a bad HDD. Your going to need to use some sort of diag tool to determine the status of your HDD. I recommend DFT. Google it, burn it to a disk and run it.
Once you know the HDD is good, pound the F1-F12 keys durning start up and you'll get to your bios so you can change the boot order.
The BIOS on my old motherboard was Delete, not an F-key. But is usually F2, with F12 being just boot order.
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when u put a recovery disc n restart ur computer n look fast ur supposed to hit one of the F buttonz on ur keyboard thats how it is for me when i do it and den it gives u a few seconds to choose ur optionz.
