Remove the Power Cord and battery. Press and hold the Power Button for 20 seconds. Now put the power cord back in and Press the Power Button. Did you see any lights or hear any fans running? If not, your power cord is probably bad.
Click the Start button , click the arrow next to the Lock button , and then click Restart.
If prompted, press any key to start Windows from the installation disc.
Choose your language settings, and then click Next.
Click Repair your computer.
Select the operating system you want to repair, and then click Next.
On the System Recovery Options menu, click Startup Repair. Startup Repair might prompt you to make choices as it tries to fix the problem, and if necessary, it might restart your computer as it makes repairs.
If Startup Repair is a preinstalled recovery option on your computer:
Remove all floppy disks, CDs, and DVDs from your computer, and then restart your computer.
Click the Start button , click the arrow next to the Lock button , and then click Restart.
Do one of the following:
If your computer has a single operating system installed, press and hold the F8 key as your computer restarts. You need to press F8 before the Windows logo appears. If the Windows logo appears, you will need to try again by waiting until the Windows logon prompt appears, and then shutting down and restarting your computer.
If your computer has more than one operating system, use the arrow keys to highlight the operating system you want to repair, and then press and hold F8.
On the Advanced Boot Options screen, use the arrow keys to highlight Repair your computer, and then press ENTER. (If Repair your computer is not listed as an option, then your computer does not include Startup Repair as a preinstalled recovery option.)
Select a keyboard layout, and then click Next.
Select a user name and enter the password, and then click OK.
On the System Recovery Options menu, click Startup Repair. Startup Repair might prompt you to make choices as it tries to fix the problem and, if necessary, it might restart your computer as it makes repairs.
what sort of error message does this come with?
or does it just fail to load the OS, if so it might be a case of reinstalling windows (if you use that)
to make sure you don't loose your files build a knoppix live CD/DVD/USB (plenty of guides to help you with this) once you've done this go into the BIOS and change the boot order to whatever media you have it installed on to first so lets say USB it will look sort of like
1. USB
2. HDD
3. CD/DVD
4. Network Boot
so once it boots navigate to the HDD and you should be able to access all files now just begin copying the ones you want to keep
You will need to contact the manufacture of your laptop and prove to them the ownership of your laptop before they will give you the master password to reset it. They can take up to a week in responding to you. I had a Dell one that came in like that and it took 10 emails to get them to give me the master password.
Best of luck and have a happy and safe 4th of July weekend!
You should reinstall the software you removed, it should be on the driver cd rom that came with your laptop, if not you should download it from vendors site.
Hello,
If the initial display is coming and machine is not booting into OS then the issue is linked with OS and you need to recover it.
If there is black screen at all please refix the battery once and check. If this does not work please check whether power is there in the machin eor not? If power is there issue is with mainboard or RAM.
Refix the RAM once (will be in chamber in bottom of the notebook). If the issue is not resolved then you may have to call service center.
The most common problem occurs when there is an incompatible device installed or a device that interferes the boot up of Windows.
If you have recently installed a new device in your computer please remove it and also remember to remove all of the USBs attached to the computer. Basically nothing except the Power source should be connected while you are booting up your computer. You can install the USB devices once your computer has loaded up.
Misty, There are lots of things that can cause this issue, but they are all hardware related. The first thing to try and the easiest is to pull out the battery and try to power it up then, plugged in of course. I have seen bad batteries cause that issue but not very often. Also the power supply, the power cord/brick thing, could also be bad to the point where it doesn't charge your battery but still provides a trickle of power that can't power everything it needs to. This is also very very rare The most reasonable issue is either bad RAM, CPU, or motherboard. Ram is somewhat easy to test if you multiple sticks of it in your laptop. On the bottom of your laptop there is generally an easy to get to opening with a RAM icon, memory not the animal, that you can open after unscrewing. If you have two sticks of memory you pull one out see if it works and if it doesn't do the same with the other stick. If that doesn't then it is some other piece of hardware that is hard to test because most people don't have the pieces around to swap out. Honestly if your battery, power supply, RAM aren't the issue then it's probably best to bring it to a computer repair shop. They have the hardware needed to find what is wrong with the computer, like extra CPU's, power supplies, etc. Also once you get past these 3 items you have to pull the entire laptop apart to get to it which is pretty hard for someone not experienced with it. There is a lot of screws and a lot of the right amount of pressure in the right spots. Also once you get past these three items the replacement cost of the hardware is generally not worth fixing, you are better off just getting a new laptop :(. If this laptop is still under a warranty then give them a call and they will cover it because this is definitely a hardware issue. Hopefully this helps more than it confuses.
Is it the screen or the laptop?
Have you plugged an external monitor to see if its booting?
If it is booting with an external monitor, you may need a replacement screen (google your model and replacement screen)
If its not booting, you could try this.....
http://www.fixya.com/support/r5335055-unable_start_windows
1. Reboot, and press F11 or the R key to start the recovery process.
2. Select either "Full System Restore (Destructive ***This will erase
all your unsaved data!***)" or "Full System Restore (With Backup)".
3. Click "Next", and then click "Yes" to confirm the recovery process.
4.Wait for the computer to restore itself. When it is done, click "Reboot" to reboot the computer.
Note : ***Full System Restore With Backup preserves data in the My Documents folder, but requires 4 GB of disk space.
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Essentially if you forgot your password you will generally have to re-format as the passwords are secure so hackers cant get in or whats the point of having the password.
, click the arrow next to the Lock button 
, and then click Restart.
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