You have to be careful which initial option you pick. You want to press "R" at the screen shown in
this pic. For it to reinstall Windows you would have had to press "ENTER" at this point instead. It will detect you have an existing installation and then give you several further options such as repairing the installation (by reinstalling the system files), wiping the drive and starting again, etc.
As Southwell suggests running the "chkdsk" command would also be a good idea (you can do this through the recovery console too).
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Originally Posted by jim76
cheers guys. I think it was a similar problem the first time round, something like a missing NDL file or something that stopped it booting. I did try fixing the boot sector through the recovery console but it ended up just completely reinstalling windows which i didn't really want, hence the odd scenario with a few version on there i guess. But it's been fine for the last couple of years.
I'll give the recovery console another try and see.
It's a Mesh pc by the way.
just out of interest, as i appear to have 3 versions to choose from would each one have it's own boot sector? ie, could i choose the second one on the list for a change and see if it boots up?
Ian, what was that about the power supply?
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