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whistlinggypsy

Last night after closing down my desk top which took a lot longer than normal i opened it this morning to find it had crashed and would not boot up.

I forced it to boot using the Q button and disc one of the recovery disc's but it will not let me make a full recovery as i have lost the drivers for the cd/dvd, no disc's will run and so i cannot do a full recovery.

Most of my other programmes are running normally expect system restore, and i get a runtime error occurring.

I have done a full system scan and the only thing showing up is the drivers for cd/dvd are not present, i run windows XP.

Any clues please before it goes to the fixers

Bob

artona · Moderator

Hi Bob

Can you start up in safe mode and then do a system restore to an earlier date.

I would then run a good antivus program in case you have picked up an internet virus. Maybe you have been on unusual sites recently and your sytem has been interogated

stew

klubnomad

Hi

Press f8 on start up, go for safe mode and then do a system restore - in programmes - Accesories - system tools - to an earlier date. The system should have several restore points.

Dave

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whistlinggypsy

stew & dave, f8 will not work for safe mode, it will do a system recovery but will not open when complete unless i boot the OS on hard disk.

I have done 4 system recoverys (different points) and none has worked as it should as i still have no D:\drive.

Bob

klubnomad

look on here for a boot disk with CD drivers