Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: SuzanG on July 30, 2016, 05:11:21 PM
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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?
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Do you have the Vista installation Disc or recovery media to repair the installation?
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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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Good to hear that the other recovery method worked. :)