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by jlandkamer

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Greetings All, my 5 year old nephew yanked my keyboard (like for or five times) then my PC shut down but when I turned it on I can only get in with safe mode networking but when in I can't burn my files to CD as it won't recognize the CD.

Safe mode works but I cant access any of my files, email or the internet.

Last known config & normal start up doesnt work, it goes through the boot process then just locks up, and I wouldn't know how to use Safe Mode with Command Prompt.

Any suggestions on how I can get my PC back to normal? I'm assuming the boot process isn't recognizing certain drivers but not for sure so thanks in advance for any advice.

Thanks,

Jeff

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by shhite

Check all your drivers.

You do this by:
Going to start menu
Richt click on my computer and left click on properties.
click on the hardward tabe and the device manager radio button

When your device manager opens, check to see if there are any with yellow questions marks on them if so you might need repair those.

If all your drivers are working properly you might need to do a windows repair.

by ic-it

You likely have a bad sector or two on the hard drive. It may have been writing when it powered down.

At the command prompt type
Chkdsk /R
If one or more errors are found and fixed, do it again.
Edited to add; After you hit return it will tell you it can not do this blah blah, would you like Chkdsk to run on the next system start, Select Yes and reboot. (You can type explorer.exe to get the GUI and select Shutdown - restart (or just issue a shutdown reboot command from the cmd prompt.

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