"error loading os" during reboot (WXP-Home)

[kylehealy]

I woke up this morning to find a screen that looks like my computer rebooting, except on the bottom of the screen there is a message that says "Error Loading OS". I tried to reboot my computer after I saw this and I get the same message. The message pops up after all of the PCI devices are listed during the reboot process. I am not sure what I have to do to fix this problem, and any help will be appreciated.

[tom_keefer]

Here's how one guy fixed the problem:

<font color=blue>"re: Error loading OS...
Monday, February 21, 2005 at 1:20 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Joe Baker

Sounds like your drive problem might have been stuck read/write head.

On Monday, February 21, 2005 at 12:48 pm, Bill wrote:

Actually, my solution was stupidly easy. I took my HDD out and basically gave it a good knock on the center with my knuckle, and it started up perfectly. Now I'm keeping it in hibernation mode, and haven't had any problems since. I'll probably still look into buying another HDD just to make sure I have a useable one. I'd hate to reformat my secondary drive and lose all that info."</font color=blue>



<font color=purple>Tom</font color=purple>


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