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I recently tried to restore my computer to factory condition because it was freezing up periodically and after waiting for about an hour or two for it to "finish", I'm informed that it failed. It then prompted me to shut down and I did. I went to sleep because with how long it took to get that far, it was already midnight.
When I awoke this morning, I tried to start it up, and it went back to the repair screen. Now it says initializing partition and has for the last half hour. I'm pretty sure it's not going to do anything. I don't have a recovery disc and I don't want to hard restart it because I don't want it to get even more screwed up.
Are there any options besides sending it to get fixed and waiting weeks? Someone actually suggested that to me previously as if I were asking on here not for possible home solutions but for steps on asking technicians. This is supposed to be an alternative to that
1if a factory restore fails too, getting it fixed professionally is your best bet, honestly. – Journeyman Geek – 2011-04-28T16:28:56.400
Okay so you're trying to basically reformat your HDD and re-install the operating system? Have you tried booting off your boot disk again? Probably one of the best bets. Is your boot disk a CD or USB drive? This may affect how the operating system internally numbers drives. Is this Windows? What version? – PP. – 2011-04-28T16:36:49.867
Try shutdown, open it up and ensure all seatable connectors are re-seated. That's at least memory and your disk. If and when you get it working, MAKE RECOVERY DISKS. If you have valuable data on the drive, MAKE BACKUPS. – mpez0 – 2011-04-28T16:54:05.187
1Half an hour for formatting (I assume that's what 'initializing partition' means) is not very long on a large hard drive. Give it about another hour before you give up. – Chris Nava – 2011-04-28T16:58:18.543
Seriously, @Jack, use line breaks. Makes it easier for everyone to read your question – Sathyajith Bhat – 2011-04-29T03:54:45.283