deji2009:

Can you c any light flashing at the side of the cd drive ? yes

Can you hear any rattling disk inside the drive ? No

click start, computer or my computer locate the
cd drive right lick and click eject, any joy ? Nothing happen

L@@k at d side of the cd drive, you would c a hole
use a paper clip to open it. do it gently ! I cannot see any hole

Emzybrown:

all4naija: Good! Can you tell us how ? So that other can learn from it.

Thank you.

deji2009:

deji2009:

Can you c any light flashing at the side of the cd drive ? yes

Can you hear any rattling disk inside the drive ? No

click start, computer or my computer locate the
cd drive right lick and click eject, any joy ? Nothing happen

L@@k at d side of the cd drive, you would c a hole
use a paper clip to open it. do it gently ! I cannot see any hole

Thanks my brother God bless you, i found a tiny hole and i used pin to press it and it opened, that means i will be opening it with pins from now, i tried using the normal button but no response, does it need repairs or should i manage it with pin...Thanks for your help

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RE:CD DVD
what make and model is ur laptop e.g hp , acer, dell, toshiba p300-20h

sapienman:

Hello,
Here's the problem with my pc.
After turning it on, before booting, it shows a page with options 'Repair' and 'Start Windows normally.
After choosing either of them, it shows a window that says the pc has some errors and asks if I want to repair it. If I click 'Repair,' it shows a window that says 'Repairing windows.' It continues for hours without any difference. Please what shall I do?
It's a small hp netbook, with intel atom problemrocessor

sapienman:

Hello deji2009, after I posted this question last week, you put me through on how to do a system restore in safe mode.
Well, I did that but when the system restarted there was no difference. Till now, it has the same issues! Also, on starting the system, it says the power of the battery is weak.
What do I do?

deji2009:

That's correct ! I would advise you take back to factory settings, all data will be lost
if you don't have anything to backup restart it and make sure laptop is plugged to source as
the process can take 45 minutes or longer. Then keep pressing f11 to start recovery manager
system recovery no backup then follow the instructions to finish.

Make sure no usb or anything attached before doing the recovery. This is the easiest solution for you

sapienman:






Thanks for your reply!
Is there no other way to solve the problem without losing the data on the pc?
I have so many files I'll love to backup

KnightsTemplar:

What Windows installation disk are u using. If u have used different disks as bright suggested and they problem still persist, I would suggest u delete your hardisk partition, create another one and then do a format. If it continues, check ur memory.

Illuminatus:
I tried deleting and creating another partition, but my disk manager won't start. I've shut it down and tried again. But still when I try to open the disk manager nothing happens.

KnightsTemplar:

Did u attach the hardisk to another system? If no then there is no need of using windows disk manager. I asked u which windows installation disk u r using. U'll just have to boot from your optical drive. During windows pre installation i.e when u r installing the windows, you will be given an option to delete the Hdd partition.

sapienman:






Thanks for your reply!
Is there no other way to solve the problem without losing the data on the pc?
I have so many files I'll love to backup

Illuminatus:
Okay. I'll try this. And it's windows 7

KnightsTemplar:

Since u r using windows 7 disk, during installation where it will display the available Hdd for the installation, click on drive options, u will see an option to delete the partition.

honeric01: I'm really angry with phcn right, i need help o.
My dell laptop came with a preinstalled win 7 but i upgraded to win 8, after like 8 months i decided to change back to window 7 for reasons known to me. I was resetting my laptop to factory settings when phcn seized power, 2hrs later, my laptop battery went off while the pc was still resetting.
Right now, my laptop keeps saying 'diagnosing, repairing then unable to repair system. I've tried to boot from a window 8 cd but it keeps saying 'the image recovery media not valid'. I also with the help of someone download a window 8 recovery disc, yet it keeps saying the same thing. I really do not know what to do about the whole thing. How can i get pass this dilema? I have a win 7 cd too but it does nt recognize it, keeps asking for win 8 and sometimes brings up a code like logfile:p//cwindows system32 bla bla bla not found.

wahlay: Pls I need your help urgently. I bought a London used hp elitebook book. A week after purchase the laptop was writing system locked as a result of assets audit management, pls contact Vicki valcour for assistance.

Illuminatus:
Hi Knight. I've tried. I inserted the disk, shut down and started up the computer again. The cd compactment vibrated a lot and it showed the normal compaq logo for long time the computer started normally. Asking me to type in the BIOS password, then windows password and showing the desktop. I also tried loading the disk through an external CD Drive but still the same thing. What now?
BTW, thanks for the help so far.

brightk: post a screenshot

tunnex190:

Pls help is needed. I don't know what happened I just realized my laptop is acting up. I can't enable my wi-fi. whenever I click on it to enable through open network and sharing center, it shows that it is enabled but wont reflect on both the icon and on open network and sharing center.

These screenshots contain both the system configuration and open network and sharing center -the shot i took when it has been enabled already. I have both windows 7 and 8 installed on it. If i switch to windows 7 and i switch on the wi-fi, it works perfectly, and it was the same on windows 8 before it started acting up recently on windows 8. The laptop model is HP compaq 6735s

Illuminatus:
Hi Knight. I've tried. I inserted the disk, shut down and started up the computer again. The cd compactment vibrated a lot and it showed the normal compaq logo for long time the computer started normally. Asking me to type in the BIOS password, then windows password and showing the desktop. I also tried loading the disk through an external CD Drive but still the same thing. What now?
BTW, thanks for the help so far.

oyelude f: hello all. Please urgent help is currently needed. I have a problem wit my computer as some important files are missen. All my files in my disk c: disappeared and some softwares like my lock box. All files in my drive g: dat were inside my lockbox r currently missen includin softcopy of my project. I am still hopeful cos d available size on my harddisk did not change meanin it hasnt been deleted but i need help to get back those files. Please i need help thanks.

all4naija: Download Recuva and use it to recover the missing files.

brightk: this ur matter get as e be oo.. where be ur location sef.. cos e-help nor won reason ur mata oo

oyelude f: thanks but iv already tried using recuva but non of those files were detected mayb because dey were not deleted. Dey r still in d computer disk cos d available space indicated is still the same as it was before dis happen but i cant see those files.

semid4lyfe: @ onegig and All4naija

Thanks.

I've been able to recover my files in my bad Ext HD and all of 'em were undamaged. It was oyb's post in page 114 of the Ubuntu Linux thread that pointed me in the right direction. All it took was a professional recovery Software. . .Runtime GetDataBack.

This software BAAAD. As in, I hadn't deep scanned more than 10% when it detected all my files (813GB worth of stuff) in the 1TB Ext HD. It was going to take 11hrs to finish scanning but I stopped it @ 10% to test if it would recover the files successfully and it did. Also, All the files were undamaged and usable. I even installed the Windows 8.1 Pro WMC OS ISO and many other softwares I recovered from the HD and they all worked perfectly. ALL THIS AT JUST 10%

Thanks once again.


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all4naija:
Then, you can try this post process below by one of the users in this forum. I hope this will be very useful to you.