Computer won't start

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eskimo

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I'm trying to do a System Recovery. When the recovery starts a window appears giving the options of starting in Safe Mode, Last Good Known etc. No matter which option I choose it always comes back to this window. I've tried starting in Safe Mode (F8) and doing the recovery (F10) but each time the only thing I get is the above mentioned window. Any ideas or have I pretty much trashed this thing?
 
if you hit 'F8' can ya goto the disc drive say d: then find the setup.exe?

If that does not work the goto the bios and change the order of the first boot device cd drive then primary drive. then reboot. that will do it. Ya give up to easily.
Im guessing you have a recovery disc.
 
Don't do the system recovery just yet. What brand hard drive is in the pc? Most likely all you have is errors on the hard drive that needs to be repaired.
 
I went into the BIOS and changed the priority. Still doing the same thing. How can I find out what hard drive is installed (short of physically removing it)?

When I attempt a recovery a window named Restore appears with this within a box: The section IDA_CREATE_USER_DRIVE_U does not contain a valid dialog template.

OK


I select ok, that window disappears and in the lower left corner this appears: Restore (and then choices of minimizing, enlarging or closing; none of which work). After a few seconds the window I described in my original post appears (Safe Mode, Last Known Good etc). If I do nothing or I select one of the choices the computer simply keeps bouncing back to that window. It will continue to do this until I hit esc and then the window just remains on the display.

I'm not all that computer literate so I may be confusing everything. Thanks for your help.
 
I forgot to mention I do not have a recovery disc. I'm attempting the recovery process from the hard drive partition.

Thanks again.
 
Go into the bios and see if it lists a model number for the hard drive. Is this a laptop or a desktop?
 
Is this a desktop ?? It sounds like the hard drive has errors on it, If it is a desktop you can remove it and piggy back it to another pc and then scan disk it to fix errors..
 
Hey everyone, sorry for waiting so long to get back to this. Ended up putting the computer in the junk closet. Looks like I might get around to messing with it within the next two weeks. I'll post if I get it figured out. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.
 
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