Dell not booting windows xp

A repair won't lose any data, other than Service Pack if not on CD , any Windows Updates and unsigned drivers, which will need to be re-installed afterwards. Stay offline to do a repair and do not go online again without a firewall enabled. Go past the first "R" repair option by pressing Enter just as if you're doing a clean install and you'll eventually come to an option to "Repair an existing installation".

Select this one. It sounds like the HD has gone bad. Can you face phoning Dell support for advice. You will probably need a new hard drive too. For future reference. Following circa half hour phone call with Dell, PC now seems to be fixed with no data loss.

The Dell advisor said problem was disk read related and that I needed to Repair files. Just in case someone else has similar problem thed etailed procedures as advised by Dell were as follows:. Just let process continue. As this is where I normally boot from I typed in y and hit return. Message that boot successfully written to C drive then came up. Hopefully all appears as normal, no data loss etc.

Whilst so far as I can tell everything is working normally, I did run the IDE diagnostics again having performed repair. My C: still shows fail return code 7 even thoug eveything seems to be working OK. Besuchen Sie die Website Dell. Support Wissensdatenbankartikel. Zusammenfassung: Schaltet sich Ihr Dell Computer nicht ein? Weniger anzeigen Schaltet sich Ihr Dell Computer nicht ein? Artikelinhalt Artikeleigenschaften Diesen Artikel bewerten.

Schalten Sie den Computer aus. Auf diese Weise kann der technische Support von Dell feststellen, welche Hardwarekomponente das Problem verursacht, und Reparaturoptionen bereitstellen. I decided that if it came to reinstalling Windows that I would just buy a new computer. I've had issue after issue and before my hard drive crashes, I thought it was time. Many hours spent trying to fix problems.

I just bought a Dell Inspiron which just puts my old Dimension to rest. Thanks for all your help I did learn a lot about troubleshooting!!!! Sometimes an older machine can present more challenges than you want to deal with. Whatever you do with the old one I wish you happy computing! Well Jack, as luck would have it All I did last night was copy some program files to a flash drive and delete old files. Somehow it fixed my problem.

However, I still have the new computer Inspiron in the box. I'm debating whether to return it or just keep it and try to sell the older computer. The one thing that my old Dell can't give me is the ability to have high download speeds when using the Internet. My processor can't be upgraded enough to support my cable modem. I have 30 days to think about it before I have to return the new one unopened box of course. I think I would keep the new one, unless of course you have good reason to return it.

With regard to the return period I'm afraid it rather depends on where you bought the computer. Consumer products purchased directly from Dell generally have a 21 day return period, counting from the date of the invoice, not the day you received it.