Posted: 6/25/2009 6:55:44 AM EDT
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My e-machine desktop failed the other day. Son stepped on the power strip while doing something and the registry is broken now. I put the recovery disk from my laptop in it, as I cant find the windows xp disk that came with it. It claims I have an 'int15 driver error'. what can I do to fix this? thank you |
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My e-machine desktop failed the other day. Son stepped on the power strip while doing something and the registry is broken now. I put the recovery disk from my laptop in it, as I cant find the windows xp disk that came with it. It claims I have an 'int15 driver error'. what can I do to fix this? thank you Well, this is full of FAIL. 1. Emachine = garbage 2. Registry could have recovered with a safe mode boot and system restore 3. Rebuilding shouldn't have any issues. My recommendations.... Try to boot the machine into safe mode...to do this, turn machine on and start tapping the F8 key. If you get a menu that pops up, goto SAFE MODE. START, ACCESSORIES, SYSTEM TOOLS, SYSTEM RESTORE....restore to the most recent date. |
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if that's the case, we cannot go further without a windows disc
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hold power button until it turns off wait 10 seconds press power button and quickly tap F8 until it give you the option for safe mode I think he's saying that safe mode refuses to boot up. |
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Quoted: yeah. Quoted: hold power button until it turns off wait 10 seconds press power button and quickly tap F8 until it give you the option for safe mode I think he's saying that safe mode refuses to boot up.  it goes to a screen that says 'safe mode' in the four corners of a black screen and then it restarts. |
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if you have a windows disc, reboot the machine with it in the CD drive and it should give you the option to repair the corrupted file.
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hold power button until it turns off wait 10 seconds press power button and quickly tap F8 until it give you the option for safe mode I think he's saying that safe mode refuses to boot up.
it goes to a screen that says 'safe mode' in the four corners of a black screen and then it restarts. |
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Google turns this up, you'll need to download the CD from the same site: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=4040 |
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Google turns this up, you'll need to download the CD from the same site: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=4040 click here to download the cd he's talking about if you don't trust me, here's the zip file http://pharry.org/data/ubcd411.zip |
| What kind of hard drive do you have? Download Seatools for Seagate drives or WD Diagnostics for Western Digital. I had one the other day doing the same thing, ran Seatools and repaired a bad sector. When I rebooted it ran checkdisk to repair the file system and worked fine after that. |
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good idea
What kind of hard drive do you have? Download Seatools for Seagate drives or WD Diagnostics for Western Digital. I had one the other day doing the same thing, ran Seatools and repaired a bad sector. When I rebooted it ran checkdisk to repair the file system and worked fine after that. Quoted:
best of luck, i'll check back in after lunch
I found the disc. May not be out of the woods, but I am working on it. Thanks for the help nonetheless, guys. Might still need you, so dont untag yet.  |
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Kid steps on power cord and breaks registry?  Exactly, I can't believe this flag wasn't raised sooner. How the fuck did your kid stepping on the power cord break the registry? Registry resides on the HDD, HDD suddenly losing power=possible corrupt files. |
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Kid steps on power cord and breaks registry? Exactly, I can't believe this flag wasn't raised sooner. How the fuck did your kid stepping on the power cord break the registry? Registry resides on the HDD, HDD suddenly losing power=possible corrupt files. |
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Quoted: I don't have a clue. He said he was tapping his foot, and shut the computer down. It wouldn't re-start. Quoted: Kid steps on power cord and breaks registry? Exactly, I can't believe this flag wasn't raised sooner. How the fuck did your kid stepping on the power cord break the registry?  I just tossed that in as 'what were you doing when this happened' info. repairing with the install disc fixed the problem, now I am re installing hardware. seems to be working fine now. |
