Raspberry Pi Forums

Hi!
I have a Raspberry Pi Model B+ and I started programming on it a few months back. A few days ago, I tried to restart it, and it wouldn't turn on. When it did, it either gave me the option to reboot or just shut off completely. I don't want to have to reinstall everything on it and lose all my code.
I used a different HDMI cord is that maybe a problem?? Is there any way I can start it and just go back to my desktop and already set up programs?

Thanks!

Greetings.

I don't know why it's keep rebooting. But for you programs, you could read that Micro SD card on another Linux machine to copy you programs out of it. Even on a Windows machine, you could make an image of it with Win32DiskImager, it just Windows can't read the content of the image.

And you could try connect to Pi via SSH, and copy things out. Linux via "scp" command. Windows via "pscp" program.

For your rebooting problem, please give more infomation.

Could you describe how do that reboot option screen looks like, or maybe give us an screen shot?

I plug in the Pi to my television like I normally do.
Then, the screen stays black for a bit, before turning to a colored screen that just says, 'Press Shift for Recovery'.
If I press shift, it goes to the list of all the programs I can reinstall.
If I don't do anything, the screen goes black again, and then reverts to a bunch of code on a black background that remains frozen on the screen.

It has been working fine for months, so I have no idea what is going wrong now. I haven't changed anything but the HDMI cord.

UPDATE: When I plug in the Pi, all of the above happen, but the little green light also does not go on.

Thanks so much!

flaky power?

I don't think so. Usually it works fine.

Is there anyway I can fix this problem without having to reinstall and erase all the info on my SD card??