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‎03-27-2017 10:55 PM

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Product: Hp mini 110-1030NA
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP
The operating system has been showing starting up for tree days now and has not come up till now
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‎03-28-2017 08:10 AM

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@IAMGCFR

 

Hello;

Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!

 

Sounds like your PC is taking a very LONG time to start up -- and in a PC this old, that is almost certainly due to a failing hard drive.

 

Please 

follow these steps:
1) Press Esc key repeatedly, several times a second, while rebooting the laptop. Do NOT hold the key down, just press it over and over.
2) Eventually, you will see an HP Startup Menu -- that will look similar to the image below ...

HP Startup Menu.jpg


3) press the Function key for testing the hard drive (usually F2) and let it run.

Please report back the test results.



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‎03-28-2017 10:03 PM

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Only F9 and F10 shows up. Pressing F2 even though it is not displayed brings no result
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‎03-28-2017 10:11 PM

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"Windows is starting up" is all that spears on the screen
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