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    Im Panicking over windows startup strange screen????

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by jaboyle, Jun 20, 2009.

  1. jaboyle

    jaboyle Notebook Geek

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    I just started my new computer up this morning, windows xp sp2. Its been running fine for the past few weeks, yet today it simply greeted me with the screen,

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    Recovering orphaned file (files name) Into file directory (now its in the 100,000's and its constantly rising)
    "

    Whats going on?? I have an external hard drive connected which recently stopped working and one of the things i saw flash on the screen during this ongoing list as shown above was notebook??

    I was previously using a notebook and all my stuff on the external hard drive is from my notebook going to my desktop where the problem lies??




    whats all this mean?? its been going on for agers !!

    kind regards to anyone that helps :) !
     
    jaboyle, Jun 20, 2009
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  2. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    What drive letter (if any) is displayed with the list of files being recovered?
     
    Shyster1, Jun 20, 2009
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  3. Fountainhead

    Fountainhead Notebook Deity

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    Pretty hard to say for sure from your description, but it sounds like a chkdsk was initiated at bootup and it's finding bazillions of errors that it's correcting...probably on the external drive. You'll just have to wait until its finished to see if the data on the external drive is accessible or not.
     
    Fountainhead, Jun 20, 2009
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  4. gerryf19

    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    sit tight, and wait. Fountainhead is correct--Windows flagged some file system corruption and is trying to correct it.

    After it is complete, and if it loads, go to your event viewer and look under applications for winlogon

    double click, copy the results with the copy button, and post back here if you can
     
    gerryf19, Jun 20, 2009
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