Hi, I have a Acer Aspire E700 Desktop with Vista OS. It's
4 years old, and so in the past when I've had a problem I have successfully used the recovery disk.
In this case however, the recovery disk gets up to the point of a black screen of death, and has the message, "Please wait...." and it hangs on there forever, even after 24 hrs of waiting. It also has a loading bar at the bottom which goes left to right across the screen, and it loads the full bar then stops and hangs on that screen, and I have to reboot, so I cannot use the acer recovery disc successfully.
Also, even when I don't opt for the acer recovery disc nothing loads as well. It stays on the microsoft screen with the little green loading bar going back and forth ceaselessly, even though I waited of hours just to be sure.
I have already tried to hit F2 or Del to enter the bios settings, find the boot order menu, and make sure the CD-ROM is above the hard drive in priority. Also tried f8 and all the other options. Previously, I was able to get to the safe mode option and tried all the other options that were listed on the screen one by one, and it didn't work, now even that screen will not come up any longer. I am really bad with computers, please help on what could be the problem, and what should I do, please and thank you!!!