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06-21-2009
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| | Acer Aspire Friend of mine was "given" a free laptop when he bought his Mazda. It came with no discs or a recovery partition. He called and told me he was fiddling with something in settings <he can't remember what>, and when he rebooted it reboots in repair mode. Repair fails and laptop freezes. He's running Vista 32. Is there a way to get past this during boot and access system restore? If not, what can I do with it? Chad, if you respond to this I already have the Vista 32 repair disk. :-) This is all the information I could get out of him. He really is computer illiterate. -- Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. |
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06-21-2009
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| | Re: Acer Aspire Computer illiterates shouldn't "fiddle"! Have him tap F8 repeatedly when the computer starts its initial boot. When he arrives at the advanced menu choice screen (white text on black background) have him choose "Last Known Good Configuration" to boot with. He should be able to get in - less his fiddling. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Mike @gmail.com>" <rathbunger<nospam> wrote in message news:eSD881o8JHA.1252@xxxxxx Quote: > Friend of mine was "given" a free laptop when he bought his Mazda. It > came with no discs or a recovery partition. He called and told me he was > fiddling with something in settings <he can't remember what>, and when he > rebooted it reboots in repair mode. Repair fails and laptop freezes. > He's running Vista 32. Is there a way to get past this during boot and > access system restore? If not, what can I do with it? Chad, if you > respond to this I already have the Vista 32 repair disk. :-) This is all > the information I could get out of him. He really is computer illiterate. > > -- > > Don't pick a fight with an old man. > If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. > > > |
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06-21-2009
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| | Re: Acer Aspire Thanks, Richard. I'll be the one to "fiddle" with it next. He's bringing it to me Tuesday. -- Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:eQM$U4o8JHA.1492@xxxxxx Quote: > Computer illiterates shouldn't "fiddle"! > > Have him tap F8 repeatedly when the computer starts its initial boot. When > he arrives at the advanced menu choice screen (white text on black > background) have him choose "Last Known Good Configuration" to boot with. > > He should be able to get in - less his fiddling. > > -- > > Richard Urban > Microsoft MVP > Windows Desktop Experience > > > "Mike @gmail.com>" <rathbunger<nospam> wrote in message > news:eSD881o8JHA.1252@xxxxxx Quote: >> Friend of mine was "given" a free laptop when he bought his Mazda. It >> came with no discs or a recovery partition. He called and told me he was >> fiddling with something in settings <he can't remember what>, and when he >> rebooted it reboots in repair mode. Repair fails and laptop freezes. >> He's running Vista 32. Is there a way to get past this during boot and >> access system restore? If not, what can I do with it? Chad, if you >> respond to this I already have the Vista 32 repair disk. :-) This is >> all the information I could get out of him. He really is computer >> illiterate. >> >> -- >> >> Don't pick a fight with an old man. >> If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. >> >> >> |
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06-21-2009
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| | Re: Acer Aspire In the BIOS turn on "Disk to disk recovery" or something like that. Once that's enabled you can press Alt-F10 or Alt-F12 (can't remember which) on boot to access the Acer recovery procedure. -- Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ "Mike@xxxxxx>" <rathbunger<nospam> wrote in message news:eSD881o8JHA.1252@xxxxxx Quote: > Friend of mine was "given" a free laptop when he bought his Mazda. It > came with no discs or a recovery partition. He called and told me he was > fiddling with something in settings <he can't remember what>, and when he > rebooted it reboots in repair mode. Repair fails and laptop freezes. > He's running Vista 32. Is there a way to get past this during boot and > access system restore? If not, what can I do with it? Chad, if you > respond to this I already have the Vista 32 repair disk. :-) This is all > the information I could get out of him. He really is computer illiterate. > > -- > > Don't pick a fight with an old man. > If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. > > > |
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06-21-2009
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| | Re: Acer Aspire Thanks! -- Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. "Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxx-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message news:upBoLds8JHA.4608@xxxxxx Quote: > In the BIOS turn on "Disk to disk recovery" or something like that. Once > that's enabled you can press Alt-F10 or Alt-F12 (can't remember which) on > boot to access the Acer recovery procedure. > > -- > Kerry Brown > MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration > http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ > > > "Mike@xxxxxx>" <rathbunger<nospam> wrote in message > news:eSD881o8JHA.1252@xxxxxx Quote: >> Friend of mine was "given" a free laptop when he bought his Mazda. It >> came with no discs or a recovery partition. He called and told me he was >> fiddling with something in settings <he can't remember what>, and when he >> rebooted it reboots in repair mode. Repair fails and laptop freezes. >> He's running Vista 32. Is there a way to get past this during boot and >> access system restore? If not, what can I do with it? Chad, if you >> respond to this I already have the Vista 32 repair disk. :-) This is >> all the information I could get out of him. He really is computer >> illiterate. >> >> -- >> >> Don't pick a fight with an old man. >> If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. >> >> >> |
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