Hadeeqa Khan
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Hi all. Shutting down my laptop one evening after use, caused it to hang.
I switched it off by keeping the start button in and was greeted the next day with a blue screen error.
I tried all options on the F8 menu, everyone resulted in a blue screen as soon as the Windows logo appears, some sooner.
I have Windows 7 on the drive, changed the boot menu to boot to the CD drive with an original Windows 7 CD in - same results. Cd spin up, loading files and then to the blue screen.
I have also created a Windows 10 installation package on a USB flash drive, just a more sophisticated blue screen...
The errors are not consistent. I am using a 4Gb RAM from my Lenovo which work perfectly, also swopped it out with the other 4Gb in the Lenovo, both working fine. I took the drive out, connected externally to the Lenovo and saw that file system was still intact, but noticed that I could not access the folders because of permissions set which I then removed.
I ran a virus check which came out clean, thinking it was the result of a virus.
Putting it back in the Acer, no change. Forums tell you to start up in Safe Mode and delete drivers, do a restore etc. None of those are possible as I don't have access to an operating system. Any ideas?
Can I access the drive externally if it is the drivers possibly and delete all in C:/Windows/System 32/Drivers?
I have also tried another hard drive which was formatted and partitioned.
Please help!!! (Buying a new laptop is NOT an option)
I switched it off by keeping the start button in and was greeted the next day with a blue screen error.
I tried all options on the F8 menu, everyone resulted in a blue screen as soon as the Windows logo appears, some sooner.
I have Windows 7 on the drive, changed the boot menu to boot to the CD drive with an original Windows 7 CD in - same results. Cd spin up, loading files and then to the blue screen.
I have also created a Windows 10 installation package on a USB flash drive, just a more sophisticated blue screen...
The errors are not consistent. I am using a 4Gb RAM from my Lenovo which work perfectly, also swopped it out with the other 4Gb in the Lenovo, both working fine. I took the drive out, connected externally to the Lenovo and saw that file system was still intact, but noticed that I could not access the folders because of permissions set which I then removed.
I ran a virus check which came out clean, thinking it was the result of a virus.
Putting it back in the Acer, no change. Forums tell you to start up in Safe Mode and delete drivers, do a restore etc. None of those are possible as I don't have access to an operating system. Any ideas?
Can I access the drive externally if it is the drivers possibly and delete all in C:/Windows/System 32/Drivers?
I have also tried another hard drive which was formatted and partitioned.
Please help!!! (Buying a new laptop is NOT an option)