If possible, try to replace your PSU (using the one from the other PC maybe?) and see if it isn't that which is causing the troubles (although it is a remote possebility, it still is a possebility as a cold boot requires far more power than a warm boot). Dunno if this will solve the problem though, even if this was the cause, as parts of Windows (registry) might have been damaged in the process of booting up/manually turning of/etc.
(A simple 300-400W PSU doesn't cost that much, €25 at the most. A lot cheaper than to buy some RAM -just for testing purposes-)
Note: Chkdsk isn't the best thing to check your HDD; it is the quickest, but certainly not the best. It doesn't perform decent tests and often doesn't reconize "unhealthy" sectors. In fact, it can even cause bad sectors on a not so healthy systems in some situations. If you truely wanna scan your HDD for errors, use a 3rd party HDD scantool (eg: Symantec's).
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Originally posted by Sunshine
This sounds like the same problem i had a few weeks ago. Only then i had done a sysrestore wich failed, in the end i couldn't do anything anymore and got the message: Could not find system.sav, or system.sav corrupted. I took it to repairshop and they formatted C: and built in an extra cooler, it's still not clear what caused all this.
system.sav is a backup copy of the registry system hive file as it looked at the end of the text-mode setup of windows.
After the text-mode setup of Windows has completed (and you switch to the graphics-mode setup), the current basic registry hives are copied to .sav files.
This is used to restore the registry in case of corruption in graphics mode so a basic set of registry keys is present.
The keys present in system.sav are HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System and HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG.
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Originally posted by rav0
Buy a pack of blank DVDs and start backing up furiously just incase it dies completely.
She can connect the HDD to another PC and access it like that. You don't need to backup everything.
An OS not booting up doesn't mean you lost your data. The data is still there, only the OS you used to access that data can't be started. So simply use another OS (aka another PC) to access it.
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