Thread: Laptop Problems, Need Help.

You should be able to boot from "SAFE" or boot to "last known good configuration"

Toy around in your boot windows...

They gave you a Windows Repair disk with that HP????

I'm surprised they didn't pull the old partition and go trick - (bastards)

Originally Posted by The Monkey Man

You should be able to boot from "SAFE" or boot to "last known good configuration"

Toy around in your boot windows...

They gave you a Windows Repair disk with that HP????

I'm surprised they didn't pull the old partition and go trick - (bastards)

MM, when you say toy around in your boot windows do you mean the bios screen? It seems my option are press f2 at start up and it goes to the bios screen. I make sure the computer tries to boot from cd first but it doesn't. It goes to that damn welcome screen and just sits there.

Yes, I have the windows restore disk in for it to boot from but it won't. Yes, the cd was working fine last night.

hit F8 right at the Windowz boot and choose safe mode.

I'll try it

OK, I tried to boot in safe mode but it's still getting stuck on the welcome screen. Any other ideas guys?

did you also try using last known good config.?

Yeah Rob, I just tried that as well. It is still getting stuck at this main welcome screen.

You should have tried last known good config before safe mode... and if neither are working you could try an in place upgrade, which overwrites os files, but leaves everything alone.

Is it possible the HD bit the dust? I can't figure it being anything else...

you should be able to boot from the Windowz CD and go from there.

And turn the friggin welcome screen off. You can do that "change the way users logon/off" Uncheck use welcome screen. It's gay anyways.

The CD is in but it won't boot from the CD. I have it set to boot that way but it won't. This leads me to believe it may be something more serious with the drive??

Of course it's a complete guess on my part.

I doubt it, check to make sure it's set to boot from cd/dvd/rom/rw/etc first, re-check it and save your changes if it's not. Also make sure the disk is bootable.

BD, I have it set to boot from the CD first but it's not. How do I make sure the disk is bootable?

Try another disk you know is bootable. For example, an OEM operating system disk, or even the OS disk that comes from HP.

I'm betting that Boot CD is "NOT" a windows OS disk...

If that's an HP and 3 yrs old, you prolly have the OS and repair utilities
partitioned on the HD (which sux IMO)

How long are you waiting for the welcome screen to pass?

My guess is that you need a real windows OS disk to repair from...

3 options are, repair, inplace upgrade, and format and reinstall os.

OK guys, I got it to boot from the windows recovery disk.

I'm doing a recovery but it's asking me "which windows installation would you like to log onto?" It only allows me to enter one letter. What the hell do I type here?

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Thanks for the help guys. I got it to do a restore and was able to back up a lot of files I needed. It still was acting right so I formatted the drive and started over.