thanks to all the good folks in the thread
i got home today, and tried the 3 fix-its that were recommended.
ie first, i tried the checkdisk (CHKDSK) command thingie from the c prompt......it told me there was error/s on my hard disk....but it did not fix them or tell me any more.
secondly, i tried to fix the master boot record with the FIXMBR command from the c prompt. But I didn't go through with it, after it warmned mne that i risjkked losing all, if my partition tables were reset wrong;ly.
thirdly, and this was my last resort from the c prompt, i used the FIXBOOT command from the c prompt.......this command writes a new boot section onto the system partition..and yehhaaa, it worked in seconds and so beautifully. My pc booted up straight away!!!
I must keep these commands written down for future use. I suspect that my pc either was closed down wrongly the night before my probs, or else a power surge overnight (possibly from lightening) messed up the MBR.
Thanks everyone!
Theyre a handy trio. I'm pretty sure chkdsk /r should do the repairs too (unless it cant) - if it doesnt even try then it might be /p or something. And as i say i know it warns you about fixmbr but i've never had a problem. Glad you got it working anyway.
what is /p ?
i just typed in chkdsk.....did i need to add a slash and an r or p, maybe?
ps - thanks for the great tips.....these three commands are so useful to me from now on.
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i must write these commands all down.....every year or two i run into simialr probs re my pc not booting up.
Many thanks.