Tehcnologically Impaired
Here's the scoop.
My girlfriend's laptop is fucked. Whenever I start it up, Vista runs something to verify everything's running smooth, and some other crap. It gets to one point and stops all together, no matter what. Left it go for hours and still nothing.
So it barely boots, can't get into setup or boot menu, nada.
Personally, I don't like Vista, and I don't know anything about laptops.
Is there any way possible I can completely wipe everything and start fresh with the Windows XP Professional disk? Or even Vista if I have to, but anything I can do to fix it and get it running again...?
My girlfriend's laptop is fucked. Whenever I start it up, Vista runs something to verify everything's running smooth, and some other crap. It gets to one point and stops all together, no matter what. Left it go for hours and still nothing.
So it barely boots, can't get into setup or boot menu, nada.
Personally, I don't like Vista, and I don't know anything about laptops.
Is there any way possible I can completely wipe everything and start fresh with the Windows XP Professional disk? Or even Vista if I have to, but anything I can do to fix it and get it running again...?
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Posted: 2010-02-17 22:13:01
Psst.
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XP isn't sold anymore since there are two operating systems out ahead of it. My suggestion is to go to Microsoft and buy the cheapest version of Windows 7 that you can. (Home Premium 32bit) When you install it, make sure you tell it to do a clean install. That should fix any problems and you have a better operating system than Vista. Vista = Fail
It automatically runs recovery when it boots, but it stops and fails, so I can't press F-Anything and have to restart or shut down. (If there was an F-This button I'd hit it).
@Kradon, I already have an XP Professional disk at hand. But since I can't do ANYTHING at startup, can't I completely wipe the hard drive of everything [including Vista] and install XP?
and damnit all to hell I just realized I spelled "technologically" wrong. FML T~T
@Kradon, I already have an XP Professional disk at hand. But since I can't do ANYTHING at startup, can't I completely wipe the hard drive of everything [including Vista] and install XP?
and damnit all to hell I just realized I spelled "technologically" wrong. FML T~T
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