Earlier tonight, I was doing my normal internet stuff - IMing, checking email, browsing BP... when my laptop froze up. I tried Ctrl+Alt+Del to try to close any non-responding programs or reboot, but got no response from that. I tried shutting down through the power key. I tried to send it into Hibernate by closing the screen. None of that worked. As a last resort, I removed all power from it to shut it off (removed the battery and AC adapter).
After hitting the power key to try to start it back up, I have gone through all kinds of shit. First of all, everything it does has been slow as you could imagine. It'll go through the HP startup screen, and then to the Windows XP startup screen. After about ten minutes on that screen, it'll go to a black screen, as if it's proceeding as normal. Then it will flash a blue screen with about five lines of stuff I can't read - because it only flashes on there for less than a second before rebooting itself and going through it all over again. On some occasions, it has given me the option to start up in Safe Mode, or under Last Known Working Configuration. None of those has gotten me past that Windows XP screen. Also on occasion, it has gone into CHKDSK. When it does this, it comes up with all kinds of unreadable segments, eventually goes through all its stages (after about 20-30 minutes), reboots, and goes right back to getting stuck on that Windows XP screen and rebooting.
I've tried everything I can think of. I'm praying there's a way around this, since I have a lot of important stuff on there, and haven't been wise enough to back anything up for a good six months or so.
Please help if you are able and willing.
After hitting the power key to try to start it back up, I have gone through all kinds of shit. First of all, everything it does has been slow as you could imagine. It'll go through the HP startup screen, and then to the Windows XP startup screen. After about ten minutes on that screen, it'll go to a black screen, as if it's proceeding as normal. Then it will flash a blue screen with about five lines of stuff I can't read - because it only flashes on there for less than a second before rebooting itself and going through it all over again. On some occasions, it has given me the option to start up in Safe Mode, or under Last Known Working Configuration. None of those has gotten me past that Windows XP screen. Also on occasion, it has gone into CHKDSK. When it does this, it comes up with all kinds of unreadable segments, eventually goes through all its stages (after about 20-30 minutes), reboots, and goes right back to getting stuck on that Windows XP screen and rebooting.
I've tried everything I can think of. I'm praying there's a way around this, since I have a lot of important stuff on there, and haven't been wise enough to back anything up for a good six months or so.
Please help if you are able and willing.
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