computer issues update

[mickeym]

First of all, thank you to everyone who responded to the post last night (and major hugs and thanks to cormallen for her efforts to talk me through this).

I got the weird start-up screen thing fixed. I had something switched around and it was looking for a floppy drive (which I don't have), and yeah. So. That's taken care of.

Next I got it to boot from CD-ROM/DVD, and FINALLY got the 'repair' option to show up. Finally, finally got past that stupid Windows loop and got my computer to start and load and my desktop to load... and everything should be hunky-dory, right? Right. Except now everything is loading SO fucking slow. Things keep stalling out or not responding, and I can't decide if it's worth it to try and dl any of the (failed) Windows updates or not -- because I don't know which one is the one that caused the loop. Though I guess if I try it and it happens again... at least now I know what to do. *headdesk*

So, getting there. Slowly.

Comments

[thehighwaywoman.livejournal.com]

Wishing you good luck with it ♥ Sorry I can't help :/ Computers know they have me well and truly pwned.

[geneli4.livejournal.com]

i'm glad you're getting there, though i wish it wasn't such slow going! *sends hugs*

[cormallen.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's progress, at least. *wishes you more good luck*

[aislinn-tredor.livejournal.com]

Slowly but surely, huh?

I wish you all the luck with it!

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

I'd probably try running disk-de-fragmentation programs and a registry cleaner to see if that helps. I don't know how neat and tidy the repair process is.