I turn on my laptop and it instantly goes to an ms-dos style screen with 2 options, to start up in repair mode or in normal mode. repair mode takes me to a blue/darkblue/shiny screen for about 10 seconds then my comp reboots and we go back to stage 1. chooseing the normal start up option takes me to the windows loading page, then a very quick flash of a plain blue page with writing on (its too quick to read) then the comp goes back to stage 1. Whats happening?!
When you boot up start pressing F8 and you should get a Windows startup page with more options. If you do select Safe Mode
When windows has loaded, goto MSConfig and select Diagnostic Startup. Ok and reboot
See if windows boots normally.
Sounds like the windows installation is totally screwed up. What OS is it. You could try a repair install from the original cd.
Failing that you are probably gonna have to do a full install.
Only for changing bios settings which shouldnt have any effect on windows failing to boot. You can always try reverting to factory settings but its 99.9% sure its a fault Windows installation
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Turn off the computer, then hit the power button to turn it
back on and immediately start hitting the F8 key repeatedly until you see SAFE
MODE. Take the Safe Mode option and let it boot up. Safe Mode will look
different to you, the screen will be darker and the icons bigger, this is
normal. If it boots up ok, then do a restart into your normal windows mode.
Try running the check disk utility.
To run the check disk utility you will need a repair disc or
a operating system disc. Put the disc in the cd drive and boot from
it. You want to get to the Dos Command Prompt (Black screen with white
letters) and type the following command: chkdsk /r
Check disk will run well over an hour or two and you will notice the
percentages going from high to low, this is normal. Let it run to
completion. Then reboot machine.
If check disk fails to solve your problem you might have to reinstall windows.
Try doing a Repair Install that way you don't loose your data, documents,
music, pictures, videos or programs.
In windows xp you get to the dos command prompt by selecting R for repair when
the options appear.
In Vista and Windows 7 you want to get to the recovery
console and look down at the bottom of the window for the Dos Command.
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Hi, firstly, thanks for taking the time to help with my problem.
In response, I select safe mode and the same thing happens it just reboots back to the windows start up mode page... any thoughts?
How about if i press F2 at the acer screen? Are there any options there i could try?
Maybe from repair mode from console prompt c:\ chkdsk /r or a combofix repair
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