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How to do a clean insitallation of Windows home basic
My Dell Vostro 220 is currently booting to a black screen with a movable curser and I've tried everything except a clean install. I can't afford the money to upgrade to Windows 7so I guess the virus wins. Microsoft refuses to even talk about helping me, which is odd that this is the 3rd time this has happened during a Windows critical update! If I was a paranoid person I would think they had something to do with the black screen. Just cause it happened after win 7, win 8, and win10 were all being released when this has happened to me. Good thing I'm not paranoid huh?
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Re install Operating System (Vista) place the disc Vista DVD in cd/dvd player. Restart your computer and press F12 when you see the Dell logo. pick the option on board cd/dvd player. press enter and start tapping on the space bar to boot to cd. follow the steps in this sites to do a reinstall of Vista.( oh yeah you will lose all your data and files) http://vistahomepremium.windowsreinstall.com/reinstallvista/index.htm
I’ve been wrestling with this same problem for several days and finally found a solution that works for me.The redirect can be repaired by going to http://dell.my.msn.com.Just going to this page seems to reset the redirect of the msn.com home page to http://dell.msn.com. I still have no answer to how to get rid of the redirect altogether, but at least I don’t get the broken links page anymore.
Boot to the F12 menu, see if you can boot to the HDD diagnostics. If not, boot to the Dell Resource CD, run the HDD diagnostics from there. If Diags fail, replace the HDD. If they pass, boot to the Vista DVD, then run a repair of the operating system
I had a much older dell laptop (2001?) that did this. For whatever reason it had 5 or 6 drivers loaded for the monitor/display. Of the five, four were identical. I disabled the identical ones and kept the normal one enabled and this solved the problem.
Here's a couple of quick things to try. Remove the memory modules and reinsert them. Do the same with the hard drive, CD drive and such. Something may have gotten knocked loose during the move. Hope this gets you back up and running! Ron
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