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Scan Interrupted, Can No Longer Boot to Visible Logon Screen
lmitchell:
VGA showed the Starting Windows swirl icon, then "One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue.
Windows will now check the disk."
So now I'm being run through chkdsk again, less than 10 hours after the last one ended. I doubt these hard shutdowns are good for the system but it's the only way to restart when confronted by the black screen. I hope this doesnt turn out to be another 8 - 10 hour scan.
lmitchell:
Regarding devices, I removed everything I was able in sequence, with corresponding restarts, prior to contacting you: the battery, the hard drive, the wireless card and the memory sticks. I also had removed the battery and power adapter, held down the power button for 30 seconds, reassemble and restart after 20 minutes, which has worked with the black screen with blinking line cursor problem sometimes.
As an absolute last resort I can open the whole thing up, disattach the monitor from the motherboard, restart, reassemble etc, but considering how problematic that will be I don't want to deal with it until eveything else has been eliminated. I've completely disassembled this many times to clean, replace fan, replace thermal paste and other stuff so it's not a big deal for me to open it up.
Boggin:
I've been researching the classpnp.sys hang and it definitely seems to be related to the HDD which is probably why a chkdsk has been initiated.
Some have found that booting up into the BIOS and swapping the SATA to IDE from AHCI and back after a reboot has worked for them , but as you know you already have 8 KB of bad sectors then that may be where the problem is.
BTW - I've seen a chkdsk /r reported as running for a lot longer than 10hrs - just to cheer you up :)
When you get the new HDD how do you intend to reinstall the OS ?
lmitchell:
I've ssen the reported success with the BIOS but the one in this HP Pavilion is relatively crude and doesn't offer a lot of fine-tuned options. The Dell desktop I had prior to this was more traditional and had all the options.
I have my Windows version imaged on a bootable USB. I'll just have to clean reinstall, copy my documents in and start from scratch. I'd reallyn really prefer to get back in this one, image my hard drive, possibly then try a last-ditch upgrade install to stabilze the crashing (which I know was due in part to browser plug-ins), then image the stable version and ditch this drive.
Right now the chkdsk is at 57percent complete and reported recovering orphaned files into directory files (3 of them) and Lrepairing the security file record segment". 10 index entries from the same file were deleted ("(eleting an index entry with Id xxxxx from index ?SII of file 9").
Well, it completed while I was typing that. Jumped back into regular startup, Starting Windows, back at the black screen with cursor, and even hearing that sound it makes when theinternal usb or wireless card or whatever activates.
Now I'm going to hard restart again to create more index error and try VGA safe mode one last time.
Boggin:
When I had just a black screen with the cursor, I was unable to boot up with anything except the recovery disks to factory reset it and then restored it with a system image - but mine wasn't because of hardware problems.
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