a similar thing was happening on my nephew's laptop

he didn't have a recovery disk, and his copy of windows for re-installation was on a partition of the HD what i couldn't get to because it wasn't booting up

in the end i had to install a new copy of windows to get it back up and running

Posted By: Ralf Scrampton on October 12th 2011 at 10:26:03

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Techy Help (AGAIN) please (General Chat) - green n yella beaver, Oct 12, 10:18:54
- If it was me, I'd get a linux unbuntu cd (General Chat) - pants, Oct 12, 10:58:04
  - ^^^ sort of what i did as a check for my nephew's laptop - but used Knoppix (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 12, 11:04:54
    - Someone should patent a usb stick, that boots your pc from the stick (General Chat) - pants, Oct 12, 11:19:24
      - not a bad idea, found some step-by-step instructions for your Ubuntu solution too (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 12, 11:28:29
        
        I use parted magic on pc's if people ever have trouble (General Chat) - pants, Oct 12, 12:00:58
  - ^^ didn't log off (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Oct 12, 10:58:31
    - Yeah (General Chat) - pants, Oct 12, 11:00:30
- Power Off...Remove Battery for 3 Minutes...Reboot (n/m) (General Chat) - Ricochet Rabbit, Oct 12, 10:53:14
- try and access System Restore from the boot up screens... (General Chat) - Pixelman, Oct 12, 10:30:48
  - mate you know me and this sort of thing (General Chat) - green n yella beaver, Oct 12, 10:41:29
- a similar thing was happening on my nephew's laptop (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 12, 10:26:03

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