Startup Repair - system restore virus??

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cRise

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Greetings,

So earlier today I turned on my other laptop and for some reason it would not open windows normally.

Instead I received a tab saying "Startup Repair" ;Your computer was unable to start.

The tab shows a loading bar saying attempting repairs..., however I have left if on for hours. When it shows "restart" the same thing happens.

I believe this is a virus? I can't even log into safe mode.

Please help!

Thank you~
 
No this is not a virus as long as this is coming up before the windows splash screen appears. This is vista trying to repair itself.
 
Why is it taking so long?

I can't even log in because this tab keeps poping up.


It says,

Windows Cannot Repair This Computer Automatically.
If you have recently attached a device to this computer, such as a camera or portable music player, remove it and restart your computer. if you continue to see this message, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.

I click finish, and it restarts my computer yet the tab keeps popping up again. :(

The tab re-appears and says "Your computer could not restart blah blah"

However, after trying all different options, it finally came to a new tab saying system recovery options

username: (my original name when i first got my computer a year ago)
password: i dont remember it :(

It also has a username called homegroupuser$ but i have no idea what or who that is
 
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Start by removing and reinserting the memory, not much you can since this is a laptop. If that don't help, then you should check to make sure the hard drive is not failing by running a diagnostic on it. Vista wasn't very good at repairing itself anyway. You will probably have to end up reinstalling windows.
 
Instead of putting my password, i click next and it brought me to a page where it says choose a recovery tool

options are:

start up repair (definitely did not work)

system restore

system image recovery

windows memory diagnostic

command prompt
 
reinsert the memory? you mean ram? physically?

And if I choose to reinstall how would I go about it? I don't have the cd that came with it. Do I have to buy a new one?
 
Yeah, physically removing the memory sticks and reinserting them. Sometimes when not using a machine for extended periods of time, this usually helps. There should be a recovery partition that you boot into to reinstall windows.
 
Look in the documentation that came with the laptop on how to do a factory restore. What model of laptop do you have? Does it still have the original operating system installed that it came with?
 
Just be aware that once you reinstall OS using either a recovery partition or recovery disk,all your data will be lost so back it up first using let's say Linux Ubuntu which you can boot from the CD-ROM disk since you cannot do that in Windows OS.



Cheers everyone!
 
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