John V wrote:
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> After just loading a normal application I get the blue screen of death. It
> just keeps rebooting, I can not get into safe mode, or repair your computer,
> last known configuration.. They all either blue screen again or just hang and
> do nothing. I pop in the gateway recovery cd to get to the repair
> console....it boots off the cd and then gets into a black screen where you
> can move the mouse cursor but thats it! Just hangs again.
>
> I need to be able to either reinstall or use recovery console and chkdsk /r
> and fixboot it to get it to work. This laptop isnt even 2 months old and
> this is happen and the hard drive is clean and vista was working fine before
> this. Someone please help.
>
i just got a new hard drive sent to me fedx overnight for my wife's
gateway laptop. it had the same error as yours--its a defective hard
drive. they sent a different brand of drive, so hopefully it will last
longer than the 3 months the first one lasted.
Vista was preinstalled on the replacement HDD...
Dave