Yey! CHKDSK saved my day!

Today, suddenly my computer won’t boot up the operating system. I use Windows XP as my operating system and last night there is nothing wrong with my PC. At first it boots normally, just when the welcome windows shows up, suddenly it shows a blue screen for about a split second, and then restarts. After that, Windows shows the boot option whether I start the Windows normally, or use a last good configuration, or using a safe mode. I’ve tried all of the option, but nothing seems works.
When this kind of thing happen, usually I use my Windows Emergency Boot CD, with the Windows Pre-Installed Environment but unfortunately, my EBCD is not with me right now, my friend borrowed that CD to repair her laptop operating system. Pooh, I thought my day would be miserable all day long because I can’t use my PC to do my task. I have another option, which is to repair my Windows using the installation CD, well, so I tried to do that. But how unlucky I am, when I want to repair it, my primary hard disk partition somehow “unidentified”, it only shows my data and document partitions. Oh great, now I think my last option is to format it. However, before I format it, I try to accessed my primary partition using Linux Knoppix (live CD), and actually I can mount it in Knoppix, and save some important things to another drive/partition. Oh well, then I think that maybe I don’t have to format my primary partition after all. So, I try to boot again using my Windows installation CD, and try to repair it from Recovery Console. First thing is that I try “chkdsk” to find some errors in my disk file structure. It went well, and when I try to list directory in my active partition, it went well too.
Finally, after all that stuff (and worrying that I have to buy a new hard disk) I exit the Recovery Console and restart my PC. When it comes to the booting option, I chose to start Windows normally, and Thanks God, finally it boots successfully. I just hope it won’t crash again for some weeks ahead because I’m in a deadline for my project, and I really need my PC most. Wish me luck for my project.

~ by Pandu on May 27, 2008.