Vista - vista wont boot , all i get is maker name on black screen ???

i cant egt Vista to boot up ?
last night i installed acrobat 9.1 then shut down. went to boot up again and no OS ??? all i get ia a screen with the ASUS logo ??
the laptop is making a dnnn, dnnn, dnnn sound for a wile and it will give me the first few notes of the windows tone, then nothing. after a wile the ASUS screen is replaced with

reboot and select proper Boot device
or insert boot medie in selected boot device and press a key_ (the _ is blinking)

no matter what key i press, it just repeats above message.
the computer is 9 days old. i have been in the bios and reset to factory setting as well as tried user settings. checked to see that the hard drive was on the boot location list ( it is )
i do not have a Vista CD just a ASUS recovery CD ( with Vista on it )

i would love to not lose my info at at all possible, so i am trying to find an option that dose not cause me to recover and lose every thing ??
F8 dose nothing, F2 gets me into BIOS setup.
no other keys seem to do anything on start up ???

cant seem to get into safe boot up or safe mode. after the computer gets to the reboot screen the dnnnnn,dnnn,dnnn stops ?

any help would be great
thanks a billion
James

You can try a sytem restore to before the problem occurred. If this doesnt work for you re-install may be required.

Boot off your recovery disk, and see if it has advanced recovery utilities. You will be looking for System restore. If not, try this (one moment while I pull up the tutorial for creating advanced recovery utility disk.

Follow Instructions provided for creating Recovery Disk. You will then place the recovery disk in drive, restart, at "hit any key to boot from disk" hit a key, and boot into recovery disk. Click System Restore. Follow prompts to restore to a point Before the problems occured. DO NOT USE REGISTRY CLEANERS!, and install a top of the line antivirus/antimalware program, and I recommend using Windows Defender also.(malware may be part of your problem)

Create a Vista recovery Disk to Access Sytem Recovery options
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/141820-create-recovery-disc.html



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tried to run recovery disk and got can not set temp path to work in
then in huge full screen sized letters
error
is all lost, no hope left just call it dead ??

Did you create the Vista Advanced Recovery Utility Disk? or Follow Instructions above to boot off Disk?

If you are unable to restore or access advanced recovery options, then your only option is Re-install off the Asus Recovery Disk.

It sounds very much like a hardware fault, I would take it back the the place you bought it.

it is not letting me have any of the options you speek of. i get no useable screen at all. just the option to restore if i put in the restore disk, and it gave me the above responce.

i cant make a recovery disk, as i cant access anything to do it with. ?? it is not letting me have any screens to work from or go to ??

bad hdd?
You would create the disk on the computer you are actively using. Do you have another notebook you can switch the hard drive with, and check to see if it functions then?

Sounds very much like it.

no other notebook, this is the first one i have ever had.
the computer i am on now is an old desktop running win.XP. it is conected to the net by way of dial up so downloading anything over 1 MB is an all day event.
sory about that i missunderstood how to make the restor disk. will it work with this one running XP ???

my desktop is not cooperating at all. it downloaded the file(torent) but wont open it.
i an using a 32bit version of XP to try this with ??

i suspet its time to throw in the towel. and return for new one. im bummed about that but dont see other options working out so well.

huuuugge thanks for the help