So i brought my laptop home from work on Wed, like I do every single day. It was working perfectly fine during the day at work, but when I got home Windows would consistently freeze on start up when the loading bar for windows would appear. I tried restarting from safe mode: didn't help. I tried running system restore: didn't work.
I tried running my virus scan while in safe mode: didn't work. So I spent all of Wed night backing up all my files onto my hdd so I could reformat. Figured this was as good a time as any considering I've never reformatted this hdd since i bought the laptop.
Then yesterday I reformatted my hdd so I could reinstall windows. Now I wasn't using the original reinstallation disc that came my this laptop as I currently can't find that one, so I was using the reinstallation disc that came with my old laptop that had been stolen a bit over a year ago. Both were running windows XP so I figured it wouldn't make a huge difference. Reformatting went perfectly fine, but during the actual windows installation the setup would freeze at the same point of the setup every time. I tried installing it 4 times and even reformatted again, but every single time the installation would freeze at the exact same spot.
I'm thinking of just caving in and go buy myself a new OS as I would really like to use my computer, but before I go out and do that just wanted to see if anyone here had any advice.
I tried running my virus scan while in safe mode: didn't work. So I spent all of Wed night backing up all my files onto my hdd so I could reformat. Figured this was as good a time as any considering I've never reformatted this hdd since i bought the laptop.
Then yesterday I reformatted my hdd so I could reinstall windows. Now I wasn't using the original reinstallation disc that came my this laptop as I currently can't find that one, so I was using the reinstallation disc that came with my old laptop that had been stolen a bit over a year ago. Both were running windows XP so I figured it wouldn't make a huge difference. Reformatting went perfectly fine, but during the actual windows installation the setup would freeze at the same point of the setup every time. I tried installing it 4 times and even reformatted again, but every single time the installation would freeze at the exact same spot.
I'm thinking of just caving in and go buy myself a new OS as I would really like to use my computer, but before I go out and do that just wanted to see if anyone here had any advice.