Computer problem...need help

[Kezg1]

Hi as the above..my nephew comp. can only boot up in Safe mode and not

normal boot up. He does not have a recovery disc or anything like wise.

And when I try to system restore, this is the prompt window below.

Hope someone can assist...Thanks

 

System Restore has been turned off by your system administrator.

To turn on System Restore,contact your system administrator.

 

 

 

[Bystander50]

  On 9/4/2011 at 1:09 PM, Kezg1 said:

Hi as the above..my nephew comp. can only boot up in Safe mode and not

normal boot up. He does not have a recovery disc or anything like wise.

And when I try to system restore, this is the prompt window below.

Hope someone can assist...Thanks

 

System Restore has been turned off by your system administrator.

To turn on System Restore,contact your system administrator.

 

If System Restore is turned off, then there is no point depending on it as there is no restore point saved in the system.

 

There could be a hardware problem that affects the booting up of the pc normally. Only way to do is to isolate all the parts and try. That includes opening up the casing and isolating the parts like memory, cd rom ... etc till you can start up normally. Safe Mode already isolates most of the device drivers, but you won't be able to pinpoint the culprit.

 

But if you are very confident it is not a hardware problem, then try to borrow the OS installation disc from someone or some ahem sources, then enter in the serial number on the licence sticker pasted somewhere on the casing. This way not considered piracy since you are using the serial number that you've purchased.

 

 

[SimonTan]

New computers are dirt cheap at Comex.

 

[Mllcg]

  On 9/4/2011 at 1:09 PM, Kezg1 said:

Hi as the above..my nephew comp. can only boot up in Safe mode and not

normal boot up. He does not have a recovery disc or anything like wise.

And when I try to system restore, this is the prompt window below.

Hope someone can assist...Thanks

 

System Restore has been turned off by your system administrator.

To turn on System Restore,contact your system administrator.

 

no recovery disc damn hard.

 

even to reformat u need it. try to see if u can borrow from a friend

[Lovemyride]

A gentle reminder: Before using the OS disc to reformat and use that serial number on the casing, do download all the drivers from the internet first! Network, graphics, sound etc.

 

Otherwise you will boot up to a fresh and clean state of Windows and you will not be able to connect to the internet.

[Usamomo]

i have encountered before the same issue.

What i did was to boot into safe mode, type a command into command prompt, restart and it boot up fine.

Can't remember the command already but i was doing it on a window server 2003

[Mllcg]

  On 9/4/2011 at 4:12 PM, Usamomo said:

i have encountered before the same issue.

What i did was to boot into safe mode, type a command into command prompt, restart and it boot up fine.

Can't remember the command already but i was doing it on a window server 2003

 

XP and vista using different codes from server 2003.

 

i miss the deltree command.

 

fastest way to reformat

Edited September 4, 2011 by Mllcg

[Arowana1]

  On 9/4/2011 at 4:32 PM, Mllcg said:

XP and vista using different codes from server 2003.

 

i miss the deltree command.

 

fastest way to reformat

 

deltree is not a format leh. juz a deletion of directory and files /subdirectories. if u miss it, tink it is now remove directory, aka rd or rmdir.

[Mllcg]

  On 9/4/2011 at 4:42 PM, Arowana1 said:

deltree is not a format leh. juz a deletion of directory and files /subdirectories. if u miss it, tink it is now remove directory, aka rd or rmdir.

 

deltree then reboot using the CD. lols.

 

faster =x

[Happily1986]

  On 9/4/2011 at 1:09 PM, Kezg1 said:

Hi as the above..my nephew comp. can only boot up in Safe mode and not

normal boot up. He does not have a recovery disc or anything like wise.

And when I try to system restore, this is the prompt window below.

Hope someone can assist...Thanks

 

System Restore has been turned off by your system administrator.

To turn on System Restore,contact your system administrator.

 

actually there is a way to load the restore point.

 

rstrui.exe or system restore is turned off but that doesn't mean that it was turned off since day 1. sometimes malware or rogue programs can switch off rstrui.exe

 

basically the restore points are stored physically in the system volume folder in your OS HDD. System restore has been turned off but you CAN load the system restore points yourself by loading the 5 files

 

sam, security, software, default and system.

 

Go to this link to read up and then do it!

 

How to recover from a corrupt registry.

 

Any questions you come back here and ask me.

Disclaimer: XP only k and you will need a XP CD but you DON'T need a License Key for this to work.

Edited September 4, 2011 by Happily1986

[Kezg1]

  On 9/4/2011 at 6:26 PM, Happily1986 said:

actually there is a way to load the restore point.

 

rstrui.exe or system restore is turned off but that doesn't mean that it was turned off since day 1. sometimes malware or rogue programs can switch off rstrui.exe

 

basically the restore points are stored physically in the system volume folder in your OS HDD. System restore has been turned off but you CAN load the system restore points yourself by loading the 5 files

 

sam, security, software, default and system.

 

Go to this link to read up and then do it!

 

How to recover from a corrupt registry.

 

Any questions you come back here and ask me.

Disclaimer: XP only k and you will need a XP CD but you DON'T need a License Key for this to work.

 

 

 

Thanks....will go n try out

[Tinydog]

  On 9/4/2011 at 3:24 PM, Lovemyride said:

A gentle reminder: Before using the OS disc to reformat and use that serial number on the casing, do download all the drivers from the internet first! Network, graphics, sound etc.

 

Otherwise you will boot up to a fresh and clean state of Windows and you will not be able to connect to the internet.

 

Not entirely correct leh. I installed many HP pcs to fresh windows before without any drivers. Still managed to connect to internet just fine. It depends on how new your hardware is. Normally no issues with detecting basic hardware like LAN. But graphic cards, sounds etc, yes. You got to download the drivers from the manufacturer's website later.

[5936]

Maybe- poor connection.

Switch off power. pull out ribber connectors and reconnect, HDD, RAM, power, etc.

 

Sometime it work.

 

If not put in a OS,

follow instructions on screen to format HDD and reinstall OS, everything new.

 

If still crash-- I think hard disk KO.

[Ithunk]

  On 9/4/2011 at 1:09 PM, Kezg1 said:

Hi as the above..my nephew comp. can only boot up in Safe mode and not

normal boot up. He does not have a recovery disc or anything like wise.

And when I try to system restore, this is the prompt window below.

Hope someone can assist...Thanks

 

System Restore has been turned off by your system administrator.

To turn on System Restore,contact your system administrator.

 

if there is no important data....can reformat

 

could be issues such as registry or viruses....i think it can be solved....but the easiest way to reformat

 

anyway safe mode is a good sign if u are trying to recover data...then from there on can see what steps u wanna take

[Ithunk]

  On 9/4/2011 at 1:09 PM, Kezg1 said:

Hi as the above..my nephew comp. can only boot up in Safe mode and not

normal boot up. He does not have a recovery disc or anything like wise.

And when I try to system restore, this is the prompt window below.

Hope someone can assist...Thanks

 

System Restore has been turned off by your system administrator.

To turn on System Restore,contact your system administrator.

 

is there any error message?

 

wait it seems that yr pc does not have system admin rights....so there is nothing wrong with the hd....

 

can u check yr nephews account and see what rights he has?

 

if thats the issue then just log in with administrator

Edited September 5, 2011 by Ithunk

[Mllcg]

  On 9/5/2011 at 12:11 PM, 5936 said:

Maybe- poor connection.

Switch off power. pull out ribber connectors and reconnect, HDD, RAM, power, etc.

 

Sometime it work.

 

If not put in a OS,

follow instructions on screen to format HDD and reinstall OS, everything new.

 

If still crash-- I think hard disk KO.

 

they say HDD can last 10 years.

 

most that i have, the IDE ones. died after 6. now i got 3 unusable HDDs. had to buy a new IDE HDD for my brother's computer.

[Good-Carbuyer]

My got other weird kind of problem: only went on Demo practice, chart, prices, faded away occassionally. Sometimes, alien's layout appeared on my screen. Equities can auto-deduct without being in the market. Latest: alien's transaction position appeared on my platform? Resident Ghost also do currency trading practice?

[Ngck]

  On 9/4/2011 at 5:18 PM, Mllcg said:

deltree then reboot using the CD. lols.

 

faster =x

 

its the same..... dun think it will be faster