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Dell Inspiron 6000 having trouble starting

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  • 11-03-2007 9:57pm
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    upmeath
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭


    My father's Dell laptop (Inspiron 6000, bought Dec 2005) is displaying the message "Loading PBR 2. . .done" when it is switched on but does not go any further than this message. Pressing enter, spacebar, escape, ctrl+alt+del is useless, anybody have any ideas what's gone wrong?


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    #2
    DemocAnarchis
    Registered Users Posts: 404 ✭✭DemocAnarchis


    Doesnt sound too good, PBR stands for Partition Boot Record I think. If it does, could mean one of your partitions is corrupted. Most dells have a dell restore function, have never used it myself but its basically a reformat to factory settings. Or you could reformat it yourself if you have an os install disk. Dont know if theres much you could do otherwise.


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    majiktripp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭majiktripp


    PBR stands for Primary Boot Record,indicating that its found and past the machines recovery partition and skipped over it to your XP partition,there is a problem with your main OS partition on the hard drive it would appear.


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