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SuzanG

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    Friends Vista laptop wont start now
    « on: July 30, 2016, 05:11:21 PM »
    I was working on a friends laptop that has Vista on it.
    I wanted to start in safe mode but I somehow messed it up by pushing and holding f9 one time, f11 another.  Now when it boots it just says windows, and shows a line going across like it is processing, and won't go farther!
    Any ideas on what I can do to get it to boot up?

    DaveLembke



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    Re: Friends Vista laptop wont start now
    « Reply #1 on: July 31, 2016, 11:08:18 AM »
    Do you have the Vista installation Disc or recovery media to repair the installation?

    SuzanG

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      Re: Friends Vista laptop wont start now
      « Reply #2 on: August 01, 2016, 05:53:19 AM »
      No, I did not have the disc, and was not at my friends house to see if he had one.  I did not get a response, so with much searching on the internet I found a suggestion to take the battery out of the CMOS slot, wait about 5 minutes and put it back in.  When I started it up, it gave me the option of a recovery, or a restore.  Since I'd done a manual restore before starting to work on this computer, I chose that.  It worked!

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      Re: Friends Vista laptop wont start now
      « Reply #3 on: August 01, 2016, 06:49:21 AM »
      Good to hear that the other recovery method worked.  :)