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Originally Posted by FireFly
My sister started defragmenting her computer, (Windows 98SE) she doesn't think the program was working properly because after 10 hours (possibly 16) the program still said 0% complete. As this point in time, her lovely 11 year old daughter decided to close the defragmenting program. She then used her programs which were running fine. My sister then got home, and the computer was running slow, so she decided to turn it off. It did not want to turn off, so she manually turned it off. Now it won't turn on properly. She gets to the "Loading Windows 98SE" screen and no further. When the screen comes on, she can hit escape, but that's the only button that works, and it gives her a blank screen with a flashing cursor, but she can't type anything.
Is her computer dead? If it isn't, how does she fix it?
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If she can get to safe mode, she may be able to run the ScanDisk utility.
This will check and attempt to fix any errors that are found on the hard drive.
Here is a link on getting to that point:
http://pcdon.com/page82.html
The harddrive may be un-repairable though.