My laptop will turn but keeps coming up Windows faild to start. A recent software change might be the problem and then it asks me to insert the windows installation disk which i do not have could you help me out Antony Harkins

You have come across a Government Laptop from India
Most likely from a school or collage.
You can try to boot into safe mode and run a sfc /scannow but you may need to find a copy of win7 or at least a boot disk.

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Sounds like a bad hard drive or hard drive with bad sectors on the platter inside the casing.

The hard drive may had a BAD SECTOR ( corrupt section )
try to format with normal mode,NOT quick format.
try using LLFTOOL ( hard disk low level format ) http://hddguru.com
quite bit longer to fix the bad section,but works.

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Shut your computer all the way down. As soon as you turn it on, start hitting F8 about 3-4 times, that will take you to an advanced options menu. Select "Last known good configuration" and that should work

When was the last time you were able to use your computer?
Did you installed any software recently in your computer?
Try pressing F8 on startup and use the Last Known Good Configuration. May be that will help.

boot from an applicable boot disk & use fixmbr to repair the boot sector,

OR have you tried safe mode or last good....( you need to press F8 seconds after the PC is turned on)

hello, when you switch on your laptop,continously press escape button on the keyboard, it is at the left hand side of the keyboard.You will see different troubleshooting and repair modes. Hope this helps. Regards

Try your using recovery disc.

use system restore to restore your computer before that microsoft update
you cand find it start - programs

Sounds like windows i corrupted. Try this. When you first turn on the laptop. Hold down the ALT key and keep pressing the F10 key. If this works it should bring you into the internal system restore for your laptop and you can restore your system back to factory default. If you can't do this then try going into your BIOS and see if the hard drive is recognized in there.

If your hard drive is recognized then you'll need to get a windows vista installation cd. If your hard drive is not recognized in there then your hard drive is bad and would need to be replaced.