Laptop keeps rebooting itself

[Dyno247365]

I have an emachines M6805 with the athlon 64 bit. It was very nice at the beginning but all it's given me for a WHILE now is nightmares. The fan kept breaking inside and the system shuts off, I sent it in twice already to get replaced and it's still happening. Emachines, what do you make your computers with???

The problem I have now has stumped me, my laptop (only today) keeps going to the 'computer not shutdown properly' screen where it counts down from around 20 and you make a choice of normal mode, LWKG config or safe modes. No matter what I click or if I wait it out, it goes to the windows loading screen, then a very quick blue screen flashes and it reboots itself.

Does anyone know what's wrong, has this happened to you before? I want to get my files onto an external HD, is there a way to do it or pull out the HD and dock that somewhere? where, what hardware do I need to do that? Thanks in advance. I'm probably buying a new desktop now.

[Quickshift]

You could remove the harddrive and connect it to another computer as a 2nd hard drive and copy the files.

[Dyno247365]

Originally Posted by Quickshift

You could remove the harddrive and connect it to another computer as a 2nd hard drive and copy the files.

I was told I need a special adapter for this. Do you know what adapter I need?

[Moppie]

You might want to find out what is causing the rebooting, it might be viral.

[Dyno247365]

Originally Posted by Moppie

You might want to find out what is causing the rebooting, it might be viral.

Okay, ...how do I find that out? That's why I'm asking here to see if anyone knew.

[Dyno247365]

I studied that quick flashing blue screen very closely

UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

[Moppie]

Thats a HDD failure


Nah, it might not be that bad, have a look here:

http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en...e+Search&meta=

If you can read the rest of the error code, and get the last two digits of the number it will help you narrow it down even more.

[Dyno247365]

I need to make a windows XP boot disk. I don't have one.

[Moppie]

If you have windoz XP on the PC your useing now, you can make one.

[Oz]

Mate I hate to say it but it sounds like what you want to do is beyong your technical abilities - I suggest taking it to a PC shop to image your data off ASAP.

You can get a laptop drive to USB converter, then plug it into the USB port of another computer and image data off, but it could already be toast, in fact that's a likely scenario. Leave it to the experts.

[Dyno247365]

Originally Posted by Oz

Mate I hate to say it but it sounds like what you want to do is beyong your technical abilities - I suggest taking it to a PC shop to image your data off ASAP.

You can get a laptop drive to USB converter, then plug it into the USB port of another computer and image data off, but it could already be toast, in fact that's a likely scenario. Leave it to the experts.

The only problem I see is the boot ini file is messed up. What I'm doing is trying to transfer my files to my external harddrive. Just because it's beyond my my abilities doesn't mean I can't learn how to do it. Yes there's XP on this system.

[Dyno247365]

LOOK AT THAT. Someone actually bought XP before in my family so I used that disc and typed chkdsk /r. It's working it's magic so to speak right now.

[harrymay]

You may have a corrupted disk, bad clusters, or a bad controller.

First thing I suggest is to wipe the computer clean. (Of course do a backup first, that computer has a DVD burner) Then I would format the disk. Re-install windows, and see what happens. Doing the chkdsk /r will work to get you back up and running. But I would go this route to make sure it doesn't happen for a while.