Vista - Unsolvable?

I have bought a neat little laptop 3rd hand.
It has no disc, back up, restore point (i know i know!)
I have used it for a few weeks without any problems.
I think it may have been knocked by one of the kids and now I can't get into vista.
Infact I can't get to anything!
Please help, I'm a complete tech~virgin

On power up it flashes up with "press f2 or f11" then it turns off an on repeatedly?
I managed to get to a "report this problem" ( I don't know how?) and it said that the operating system could not be found.

Any ideas?
Anyone?

if i were you i would buy a copy of vista for it....

when you hit ''f2'' does it bring up the bios...?

''f11'' should give you the option to boot from the recovery partition ....but you said there isnt one so i think your looking at a reinstall

Go to the site for the Laptop manufacturer, and check what options are
available to restore the PC to factory settings - assuming it was origonally
supplied with Vista & the code is on the base of the Laptop


"joaboo" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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"Operating system not found" is your computers way of saying it can't find a
drive to boot from. See if there are any CDs, DVDs, or floppys in the
drives. - remove them and restart.

If you can get to the BIOS, check the drive order.

Find someone with a bootable disk (hopefully the same OS as yours) to test
your computer, before going to hardware.

- sneaky old tech support.

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