JusticePourTous
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I attempted a clean install of windows that didn't achieve anything I wanted it to, and generally I regret it, so I wanted to switch back to my windows.old folder on my hard drive. Following the official instructions on the microsoft website, I hit a problem. Whenever I boot from disk, windows fails to load. It starts the windows 7 animation, but stops pretty much immediately, and is unresponsive until I force a power off and reboot.
The laptop works okay normally, it boots fine and nothing is bricked, but it has a few issues that I've tried and failed to solve, like the function keys only working in select few programs, and I'm missing a lot of my old stuff, and so want to revert. Is there a way to do this easily without booting from disk? And if not, is there a way to fix my boot from disk problem?
My laptop is a Windows 7 Acer 5560. I tried to do the alt-f10 partition reset, but the hotkey does nothing. Tried lots of alternatives to no avail. I think I might have messed with the partition or the bios or something when I did the clean install? I dunno. One website gave me instructions with attempting to boot from the partition without alt-f10, but i couldn't boot from the cd i burned, so it didn't work. All in all I'm a bit frustrated. Any ideas?
Thanks,
JPT
The laptop works okay normally, it boots fine and nothing is bricked, but it has a few issues that I've tried and failed to solve, like the function keys only working in select few programs, and I'm missing a lot of my old stuff, and so want to revert. Is there a way to do this easily without booting from disk? And if not, is there a way to fix my boot from disk problem?
My laptop is a Windows 7 Acer 5560. I tried to do the alt-f10 partition reset, but the hotkey does nothing. Tried lots of alternatives to no avail. I think I might have messed with the partition or the bios or something when I did the clean install? I dunno. One website gave me instructions with attempting to boot from the partition without alt-f10, but i couldn't boot from the cd i burned, so it didn't work. All in all I'm a bit frustrated. Any ideas?
Thanks,
JPT