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Why sometimes my computer automaticaly restarts, and while turning on, i get that i need to reboot it and change proper boot? I had my pc fixed one mounth ago. Also it wont get "rebooted" until I open pc, and a little move all iner parts in it?
God I forgot second question.
What happens if I dont full my batery entire 12 hourse, i hyst got new pc
 
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The restart could be automatic system updates from Windows. Only thing that comes to mind with so little info.

The boot problem sounds like your boot order is out of wack. What kind of mobo do you have/do you know how to access your bios and change settings in it?
 

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Why sometimes my computer automaticaly restarts, and while turning on, i get that i need to reboot it and change proper boot? I had my pc fixed one mounth ago. Also it wont get "rebooted" until I open pc, and a little move all iner parts in it?
If they are not prompted (in the case of automatic updates) then your computer has encountered an unrecoverable kernel level error and so has had to restart to get back into a known state. These are bad, very bad and should not be ignored. In fact these are the dreaded Blue Screen of Death warnings and will even show you the infamous blue screen on older operating systems or if you disable automatic reboot (useful to see the cause).

Possible causes include.
Faulty hardware. The kernel can only work if the hardware it is running on works. Even if 1/1,000,000,000,000 operations errors then your system will struggle to even boot. Sadly hardware does not last forever and will need replacing eventually due to various physical problems related to age (such as electron migration).
A buggy driver. Drivers are part of your kernel yet developed by people other than the OS manufacturer. As a result they are subject to different and often rather poor quality control. If they error on system older than windows Vista then the OS is forced to reboot with a BSoD.
Damage to the OS kernel via some means. Can either be malicious malware trying to install worms or HDD data corruption (very rare). Obviously if the files are damaged they will not work well and will error.

If this is a BSoD error, there will be a reason why the system restarted. It will give you what module failed and an error code why it failed. Posting these may allow us to help further.

What happens if I dont full my batery entire 12 hourse, i hyst got new pc
I can only assume you have a portable PC with a inbuilt battery for mobility. Modern computers should automatically shut down long before the batter reaches critical levels of depletion for safety and to prevent damage to the battery. Since it is likely powered by lithium ion batteries they need this safety as they will literally explode if not treated carefully and users are too irresponsible to manage them safely themselves.

If you do not charge the battery within 12 hours of depletion (well reaching a low level) then you run the risk of permanently damaging the battery. It will not explode (is safe) but certainly may cause it to lose maximum charge capacity over time. As a rule, if the OS warns you of low batteries you should consider stopping or plugging it in.
 
Today I lost power in the house and my pc shut down instantly. When power came back pc couldnt turn off. In more details, after I turn on pc I have to select how I want to turn on pc, I mean do I want to start it in safe mode, with networking, command promp, normal mode, last known good configuration. After I select normal mode, or last known good configuration windows start loading after few seconds loading is stopped some blue background with some text blinks and pc restarts automatic. I cannot read that text because it is there only for short time before pc restarts. Personaly I think it is problem with something calleled 3rd master, where I think is located hard disk. What is problem, how to fix it, can I pause this blue 'text'/'background' so I can read what is problem? Here I have two pictures.
 

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In more details, after I turn on pc I have to select how I want to turn on pc, I mean do I want to start it in safe mode, with networking, command promp, normal mode, last known good configuration.
Yes the bootloader does that whenever the system does not shut down normally.

After I select normal mode, or last known good configuration windows start loading after few seconds loading is stopped some blue background with some text blinks and pc restarts automatic. I cannot read that text because it is there only for short time before pc restarts.
That is a BSoD.

Personaly I think it is problem with something calleled 3rd master, where I think is located hard disk. What is problem, how to fix it, can I pause this blue 'text'/'background' so I can read what is problem?
Sounds like the OS has become corrupted. If it was installing updates when you lost power this is likely the case.

Here I have two pictures.
Where are the pictures? It seems you did not upload them.
 
Thx for answer, my mobile net is slow s o I cannot upload them so far. I want to see blue screen of death but it automaticaly restarts, I heard that can be stopped in control panel,
but obviously I cannot acces that right now. Is there other way to do it? In bios? Also I wasnt updating os, I was playing with unity, my pc is always off line. What is bigger chance to be hardwar or software problem? I guess that can be tell by picturibg blue screen but because it only flashes I cannot do it. How to turn of automatic restart?
 
Well my cd driver couldnt read discs for long time, while recently it even stared refusing to open. While usb port I forgot to unmount few times, and didnt scan on starting pc. So ia this hardwarae problem, os prolem or something third. Do I have to change oa and if I do can it be dpne with flash usb and not dvd? And after all this things I dont understand what is 'boot'
 

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The boot strap loader is part of the bios (motherboard) that is responsible for locating an operating system to load (boot) into. If it cannot find one it will give some error like the one you are reporting (no bootable drivers).

This can happen if you have the drive plugged incorrectly into a slave port (which does not support booting) or if the drive itself is broken or the OS installation on it is corrupted. By drive I mean some form of persistent bulk storage such as a flash drive or a mechanic hard drive.
 
So this is my pc when I try to start it. This was always showing, even when pc was working good.
Looks like third ide master is not readed while third slave is hard disk, while second is cd that cannot be even opned to inaert disk.

Edit fcing picture is rotated on mobile it looked good sry.
 

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That's a BIOS boot screen showing the devices.

How many hard disk drives does your computer have? If that third slave is meant to be the master then something is wrong with the way they are wired or maybe how the BIOS has them configured.

If it does have 2 hard drives then it appears your boot drive is dead. Or at least acting like it. Try and unplug all the drives and only plug the boot drive in as some times mother boards do stupid things like refusing to access a working hard disk.
 
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i have a laptop where windows cant be activated by me if i reinstall windows myself. the pc came with a harddrive error that forced me to reinstall windows right away and it couldnt be activated. i took it back to the shop and they tried but even they couldnt get it activated. it had to be sent to the company that made it.
 
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i have a laptop where windows cant be activated by me if i reinstall windows myself. the pc came with a harddrive error that forced me to reinstall windows right away and it couldnt be activated. i took it back to the shop and they tried but even they couldnt get it activated. it had to be sent to the company that made it.

It just requires a full format, I've dealt with the same issue before.
 

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Can we confirm how many hard disks your computer has installed? Take the side panel off and look for things that look like one of these (exact shape depends on manufacture).

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And not one of these...

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Do you have 1 or 2 hard disks? If you have 2 then one of them (the one holding the OS, the main boot partition) is not being seen by the bios so it is trying to boot from other drives which are not bootable. If you only have 1 (the one which is shown in the image you posted) then the boot partition on that drive has become corrupted and requires a reinstallation.

If you need to reinstall your OS, remember it may remove all data contained on the drive which might not be desirable. You can still use the drive as a slave for another computer (since that does not require it being bootable) which may let you salvage most of your data (if the boot sector is corrupt it is likely some data may have also been corrupted). If the actual partition logic has become corrupt then no data can be salvaged in a reasonable way.
 

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Man I know what it is hdd. I have 160 gb separated in local disc c and d. In local disc c is my os installed.
Those are called partitions. Anyway it sounds like you have 1, 160 GB Hard disk (must be old?) which is showing up. This unfortunately means that your boot sector is corrupted. It could be that the special location used by boot partitions by the bootstrap loader to being loading the OS is corrupt or that the entire/part of the C partition is corrupt.

Try inserting the drive into another computer and seeing if the partitions appear (they will get different letters due to clashes but this is harmless). Can you read data from the drive? It could be that the drive has become faulty (highly likely if it is an old drive).
 

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By saying corrupt, u think lokw totaly broken, not working, unfixeable.
You need to plug it into another computer and see if the partitions mount (which should happen automatically). If they do not then at least the data on it is gone. A drive from 2007 is 7 years old now, if it has been used a lot it is likely to be developing some kind of fault so it is possible it is broken. Mechanical drives are one of the most likely components to fail in your computer.
 
Well lets say I did some changes in folder system32, I picked one file (i dont remember what), then copy it to desktop, opened it with notepad and saved with no changes, aftet that I replaced old system file with new one from desktop. Can that be causing problems? Because when I start it in safe mode it starts checking system 32 files. Checks at least 30 of them and then restarts.
 

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Well lets say I did some changes in folder system32, I picked one file (i dont remember what), then copy it to desktop, opened it with notepad and saved with no changes, aftet that I replaced old system file with new one from desktop. Can that be causing problems? Because when I start it in safe mode it starts checking system 32 files. Checks at least 30 of them and then restarts.
Yes it can as system files are usually binary files and notepad is a text editor. It will have corrupted the file as it tried to save the content as text. Notepad is not a hex editor (which opens files as binary files and can save them without corrupting them). Also system files are security checked to prevent worms modifying them and taking full system control so it could be failing a checksum now and so the system is refusing to boot.

What reference were you using when you modified this system file? What file was it?
 

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It is possible since the files should be the same from one version of windows to another and the partition should be mountable in another OS instance (even USB booted Linux if your computer can support that). However this is generally not secure unless you can download directly from Microsoft as people may have tampered with the file to insert malware. Reinstalling the OS is probably the best fix, just make sure to use another computer to back up the data in case it gets lost.
 
Well I am trying to install new os. Windows xp sp3 professional x32 black edition. But my CD-driver is dead and I can use only USB but installing is a bit problematic. So I got one good sloftware called "Rufus" it makes usb drivers bootable for installing windows xp os. But I am not sure am I doing it good. So I got .iso file for installing os. So I run rufus and now I am not sure should I choose .iso or ms dos. It is hard to explain if you could check this tool it would be great. I made it iso to be "booted/installed" on usb but it didnt work. Should I have choosen ms dos?
 
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Without looking at it, iso is probably the correct option, seeing that the Windows installation is in an iso.

You will probably need to set the boot order manually in the BIOS so that it indeed boots from the disk-on-key before your hard drives (and after it finishes installing and restarts for the first time, remember to change the order back, so it doesn't go into the installation again).

If it still doesn't work, you can try using YUMI, it's a great boot manager program.
 
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