BLACK SCREEN CURSOR
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:57 pm
My laptop, a Gateway p705u FX, with a 6 months old Toshiba HDD and Win7 64 is not working. It won't boot from my HDD nor from any recovery/installation/repair disk, it would just go to a black screen with a cursor on it. I was able to use Knoppix Live CD and I did back up my info already (whew)! So I got this UBCD installed on another USB, and I tried to run the toshiba app, which it runs from FreeDOS (which now I know it has problems with USB bigger than 256 mb)... the menu would always show me this.... Whats the difference??
0 Boot Clean
1 Boot UMBPCI (silent)
2 Boot UMBPCI (optimal)
3 Boot UMBPCI (semi-defensive)
4 Boot EMM386 (optimal)
5 Boot EMM386 (semi-defensive)
6 Boot no UMB (defensive)
7 Boot no UMB (ultra-defensive)
I could not load any FreeDOS app, it would only get me to "xxxxx.bat not found on the CD" and I had to reboot it again. It had just worked on the UMBPCI semi defensive on Grub4DOS, but then Toshiba diagnostic tool won't find my hard drive (any other app would find it without a problem - even seagate tools, which told me that it cannot repair it because is not a seagate tools), is it because of the UMBPCI option???
Another thing, always when is loading freeDOS, it cannot load the cd drive: it would say: QCDROM CDEXATA1 not loaded, abort.. and it would continue... is this a problem??
I tried to burn it to a CD (so I would not have problems with the dos apps), I copied all the files to a new data cd (on D2GO) plus FJDT.exe just in case. But it did not boot, it would just boot to the next bootable device, why is that?? could it be the FJDT.EXE file?? or should I do it directly through the ISO??
(would it be bad, if I just wipe-clean-zero my hard drive then install win7 again??)
THANK YOU, hopefull you can answer my 5 answers specially the freedos menu!!!
0 Boot Clean
1 Boot UMBPCI (silent)
2 Boot UMBPCI (optimal)
3 Boot UMBPCI (semi-defensive)
4 Boot EMM386 (optimal)
5 Boot EMM386 (semi-defensive)
6 Boot no UMB (defensive)
7 Boot no UMB (ultra-defensive)
I could not load any FreeDOS app, it would only get me to "xxxxx.bat not found on the CD" and I had to reboot it again. It had just worked on the UMBPCI semi defensive on Grub4DOS, but then Toshiba diagnostic tool won't find my hard drive (any other app would find it without a problem - even seagate tools, which told me that it cannot repair it because is not a seagate tools), is it because of the UMBPCI option???
Another thing, always when is loading freeDOS, it cannot load the cd drive: it would say: QCDROM CDEXATA1 not loaded, abort.. and it would continue... is this a problem??
I tried to burn it to a CD (so I would not have problems with the dos apps), I copied all the files to a new data cd (on D2GO) plus FJDT.exe just in case. But it did not boot, it would just boot to the next bootable device, why is that?? could it be the FJDT.EXE file?? or should I do it directly through the ISO??
(would it be bad, if I just wipe-clean-zero my hard drive then install win7 again??)
THANK YOU, hopefull you can answer my 5 answers specially the freedos menu!!!