Error i am getting

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Sat Apr 05, 2014 8:30 pm

Guys, I got this tonight and last night received a message of "recovery, it looks like windows did not load correctly. See advanced repair options or restart my pc"

Has anyone dealt or seen this before? if so, what do i do plz? it's on win 8.1

Someone suggested I do this:

While start the computer open the Advanced Startup. If you already in Windows 8.1, hold down the Shift key and chose to restart Windows which should start Windows directly in the Advanced Startup Settings. Or you could use to open the Charm bar and:

1.Tap or click on Settings.
2.Tap or click on Change PC settings at the bottom of the charms bar.
3.Choose Update and recovery from the list of options on the left of the PC settings window.
4.Note: Prior to Windows 8.1, choose General instead and then skip to Step 6.
5.Choose Recovery.
6.Locate Advanced startup, at the bottom of the list of options on your right.
7.Tap or click on Restart now.
8.Wait through the Please wait message until Advanced Startup Options opens.

thx

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 7:20 am

Yup seen it lots of times on clients PCs.
Is this the same computer from the other thread that is 7 or 8 years old with the ancient hard drive?

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 12:58 pm

If you are getting that message I would bet that the HDD has failed or is failing.

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:33 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Yup seen it lots of times on clients PCs.
Is this the same computer from the other thread that is 7 or 8 years old with the ancient hard drive?

Thx for responding Cat. No this PC and HDD is only 2 yrs old. It didn't happen today. Someone recommended that I run HDD Regenerator on it, would you concur? Or should i try something else or just do the above mentioned steps if it happens again? It happened when I use batch job (shutdown.exe /r /t 00) and the next night adwcleaner to restart my PC. Would those have reason to coz it to do this?

Thx Cat.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Apr 07, 2014 6:24 am

HDD regenerator...hell no. If I suspect a HDD is bad...it gets destroyed and thrown in the garbage...not worth the time of trying to save it. Run some diags on the drive if you want, good diag tests...plenty out there, from the manufacturer, to HDD health/monitoring software like CrystalTestDisk or HDDScan...so you can gauge the health of this drive.

Otherwise...dunno the health of this computer, if the hardware is certified for Windows 8, updated BIOS, if the RAM is certified for the motherboard of the system, malware, etc.

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Mon Apr 07, 2014 4:55 pm

You could always try the "freezer trick".

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Mon Apr 07, 2014 5:01 pm

Seriously if it was running 8.1 fine and you are running that script plus the adwcleaner that could be what is causing the issue. I suspect a HDD failure though. You could try to just do a clean install as well. I highly doubt that any hardware that was released in the last 2 years couldn't run 8 or 8.1 (probably came with 7 or you were running 7 I suspect anyway).