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Dell Inspiron 6000 having trouble starting

upmeath · 2007-03-11 20:57:42

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?

11-03-2007 8:57pm

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upmeath

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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 12-03-2007 2:20pm

DemocAnarchis

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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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#3 13-03-2007 4:37pm

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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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