Computer Crashed

[boldego]

My son's mother has a HP computer with no recovery disc or copy of Windos XP and it refuses to boot up. It just comes up with a bunch of errors and asks if you want to restore to the lates known working point. When you say yes it just gives more errors. I'm not sure but I think they sometimes put a recovery on a partition (D dirve) I believe. Has anyone any knowledge of this or what to do. I would have built her a computer but she wanted the interest free 1 year option so she went with this HP. Any help anyone can give me will be deeply appreciated and if I get it working I'll drink some beers for you!!!!

[Solarjetman]

There is really not enough information there to take any guess of why its happening. What was the last thing that happened before it started acting up. For example was a new programmed installed? Maybe a piece of hardware? Was the computer impropperly shut down?

Also, have you tried booting into safe mode? I think to do this you press F8 during a specific point in the boot process (just keep hitting it).

Another thing is if its an HP, it may have a warentee and you can just send it in for repair. Or the very least ask HP for a restore disk.

[boldego]

I asked her son if he had put any new hardware in and he said no. Who knows what kind of programs he loaded but I can't get it to boot up so I can't find out. I tried safe mode already and no luck. I might just try booting up wiht a boot up disc and see if there is a set up file on the d drive. I sure hate not having any discs for it.

[brushswinger]

Have you fallen out with your wife (my son's mother) because of a computer??? I am often in that situation. My daughter's mother does not understand.

[boldego]

HA !!!....No we never got married. She's totally computer illiterate.