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Emachine W6409 will no longer turn on

Well my computer crashed i believe. i tried rebooting it with a cd that i thought was the restore cd turned out to not be the one. when i would turn the computer on it would go no furhther than the xp logo and restart. i tried another cd, which again was the wrong restore cd. now it just goes to a black screen that says disk read error, please restart

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  • prican77047 Mar 08, 2009

    Ok well I tried to run the XP CD but it still would not go past the screen that said disk error, please restart. I just bought a new hard drive today. The new screen is telling me that it is exiting PRE ROM or something like that and that I need to insert a bootable disk and hit any key. I inserted the cd that the drive came with and it still said that. I inserted the windows xp cd and it still says the same thing. What should I do now? I contacted the manufacturer of the product, but since its saturday they are closed.

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Your hard drive is probably crashing or has crashed. You need to start your computer with an XP CD and try to use the repair function. You'll be able to tell if the hard drive is still working or not once you run the repair function. Let me know what happens or if you run into any problems.

  • Anonymous Mar 09, 2009

    You need to change the boot order so that the computer boots to the cd first, not the hard drive.

    You can do this by changing the order in the bios.

    Let me know if you run into any problems.

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