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.
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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.
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.
