[pchelpers] Re: Computer won't boot

Do you mean when you say writing When you tried to repair Windows? If 
this is the case All Windows installs show a blue screen when it first 
boots, It loads the drivers from the CD into memory, the entire screen 
is Blue save for a title bar and status bar at the bottom. If in this 
case an attempt was made to repair windows instead of reinstall it would 
flash very quickly since there were no folders to repair. That is not a 
BSOD it is a progress screen. Bill loves the color blue I guess, Linux 
loves green since the days of Windows 1.0 Bill used a blue screen for 
install, error, progress, background, titlebar,ect blue is Windows 
default for everything, So seeing  flash of blue screen does not make it 
so that it is BSOD there  other options it could be If it is upon boot 
and you get the Windows logon screen then a quick flash in that case it 
would be a BSOD of sorts. If this was the virus that I mentioned then 
the windows\system32 files were gone and I don;t believe you would even 
have text on the screen just a real quick flash of the default blue 
which is in the Kernel of all Windows, the error messages are stored on 
the HDD, now in this case I may be mistaken it may be in the Kernel. In 
Linux it is in the Kernel and since Bill will not let anyone crack his 
kernel then he may have them stored in several places.When you 
reinstalled Windows did you format the drive first. many people do not 
believe you can recover data off  a drive where the partition has just 
been deleted and written over. if you had 20GB of data on the drive and 
reinstalled Windows without formatting and you only used a max of 5Gb 
the 15Gb is still there. When you delete a partition you only remove the 
file structure the data is left there although it now has no boundaries. 
when you reinstall the OS it redraws those sectors without deleting the 
data. I have forensics software that will retrieve data off a drive that 
has even been reformatted. When I got this laptop from Dell it was just 
the OS I ran the forensics software on this 40GB HDD that only had about 
5Gb used when I got it and filled the drive up nearly 40GB before I got 
the warning, looking over about 1,000,000 files I could see family 
photos, documents, programs you name it I found it. The HDD in this 
computer had been sold and returned several times. I reformatted it 
right away. split the drive and installed Linux on the second partition, 
Later I reformatted the Linux partition and reformatted it in NTFS and 
still pulled up the data from the first guy who had the drive. My 
software is limited, DHS has software that can recover data that has 
been overwritten up to 3x's So if you did a write over and then all that 
data is still there, just expansive and hard to retrieve
Scott McNay wrote:

>Hi Gregory,
>
>Tuesday, December 27, 2005, 10:29:53 PM, you wrote:
>
>TC> Something to note this is the second reply where someone mentioned BSOD
>TC> the posted never said he say the BSOD he said it kept going back to the
>TC> login screen there was no Windows folder to read the OS he never saw a BSOD
>
>   "There is a blue screen that flashes with writing"
>
>  
>

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