You can follow the solution provided by Achalesh Prem P or you can zero fill your hard drive
Hi,
Some of the emachines coming with Recovery image. You need to press F11 key on starting to check whether the image is available or not. If it is there proceed with restore.
Otherwise you need a recovery CD to do this. If you don't have any CD then you could purchase the recovery disk for your emachines from the link below by entering the serial number on your computer:
https://secure.tx.acer.com/RCDB/Main.aspx?brand=emachines
SOURCE: computer displays black screen with blinking cursor
Its seems its not booting correctly. Just Insert Windows CD and fix the windows. Another solution is to press (I think) F1 or F11 or F12 (depending on the model) when booting the machine. It will take you to recovery mode. Use it to restore the boot section ONLY.
SOURCE: My Asus eee PC fails to boot
Reboot the system
Press F8 at boot startup. In the boot menu
Choose Last Known Good Configuration. If this doesn't work
Try Safe Mode
Go to Device Manager
Roll Back any new driver you've installed
and/or
Go to Add/Remove programs
Unistall any new software you've installed
SOURCE: black screen, blinking cursor in top left hand corner
Could be a number of issues, incl unseated processor or a faulty hard drive. First off I would remove mains & battery, remove covers from underneath and reseat any memory or processors you can find - by reseat I mean just take out and put back.If this fails, I would look to price up a new hard drive before condemning the machine.
SOURCE: won't boot
I had this too. It kept happening after I would install updates. I think the problem turned out to being that my harddrive (only 4GB) had run out of space.
The way I ended up fixing it was to turn the power off by holding down the button, turn it back on and hold the F9 key. This allowed me to "restore factory defaults" and it booted up again. I lost all the changes I had made, so if you had settings saved, this may not be your best option.
If it is a harddrive space issues, I would recommend getting to the console (CNTRL+ALT+T) and then typing "sudo synaptic" to get to the package manager. You can then remove packages that you no longer need or want to use (like the kids games, possibly Skype). This stuff is a little advanced, so if you're not sure of what you're doing, you may end up changing something you didn't mean to and needing to start back over again by restoring defaults.
SOURCE: gateway mseries laptop won't start, screen black
It's flashing because it's trying to load via the hard drive.
What have you tried so far?
Safe Mode, boot cd, etc?
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