Cosmo
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My GF has just rang me and said when she turned her laptop on she got a message saying that Windows has not loaded properly. And something about it may be down to recent changes you've made, power cut or Windows being reset.
It gives the option of choosing to load windows normally, before recent changes, safemode, safemode with networking, etc. but when she chooses any of them it just comes back to this same screen.
She hasnt made any changes to any of the settings recently, and only ever uses it for doing her Uni work and on the net. She has tried turning it all off, taking battery out all simple stuff like that but still getting the same error.
Anyone any ideas?
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Cosmo
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Also, the laptop is only about a month old, and running XP. Never had the problem before now.
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--Dave--
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what laptop is it? She may be able to do a system rescue/recovery.
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topshot_2k
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insert the system recovery disk
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Cosmo
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ermm...some HP one. Will this get rid of any of her saved work though?
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PaulW
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driver issue, welcome to hp reliability
system recovery disc will get rid of any work on it, but tbh if you cant even boot the system then there is no real way to get at it unless
take out hdd from laptop
plug into a 2.5" hdd to usb thingy
access the hdd on another pc to get the work off
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
take out hdd from laptop
plug into a 2.5" hdd to usb thingy
access the hdd on another pc to get the work off
yeah was thinking that, will have to see how soon I can get one of those as otherwise will just have to lose it all and start again!
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topshot_2k
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i take it the HDD is partitioned into 2 disks? if so if you have XP you can just install a new copy on the C: but keep all the data safe on D:
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by topshot_2k
i take it the HDD is partitioned into 2 disks? if so if you have XP you can just install a new copy on the C: but keep all the data safe on D:
Im not sure, havent really been on it since she got it.
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