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20-Oct-2009, 09:51 PM #1
Help Urgent!!! Windows Vista not booting
So I am trying to fix my girlfriends computer. She has a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC. It will not boot up. When I try it says there are problems that are preventing window from starting. I'm more of a apple guy myself but have started working on pcs recently and repairing them sor forgive me. She didnt have the install discs that came with her laptop so i downloaded and burned a copy of the vista recovery cd. when i go to repair disc it doesn't go past searching for installations after it shows theinstallation there. it just keeps searching

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22-Oct-2009, 01:50 PM #2
Did you try booting into safe mode - Tap F8 as it boots up
You should see a menu
choose safemode

also
where did you
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so i downloaded and burned a copy of the vista recovery cd.
downloadfrom - is this an HP Authorised Recovery CD
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