Ok, So I was at my GF's house today and her mom was needing my help with her laptop. apparently there was nothing wrong with her laptop to begin with, she was trying to copy CD's with a copywrite protection on them.
I noticed the little icon beside the clock telling her that she has updates available. I recommended to her that she install them. She wanted me to start it, then I told her to just let it sit, and do whatever it tells her to do, and that she may have to restart the laptop after this. Then, my GF and I went to my house.
I was dropping her off and her mom came out to my car and said that there was a problem and the laptop wouldn't turn on. Well, the woman had seen a progress bar read 100% so she decided to take it upon herself to restart the laptop.
And now the laptop will almost boot Vista Basic all the way, but will stop at the logon screen before you can see the users. It gives a dialogue box that reads: "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install Windows, click "OK" to restart the computer, and then restart the installation process." The box has an "OK" button, and a close-window X.
I've tried everything from popping in a Vista disk and trying to run the repair utilities, to pushing F8 at the startup and cycling through the different options (last known good configuration, safe mode, start normally, ect.) I CANNOT get it to start past that point!!!! I get The same error message everytime.
I do NOT want to reformat the laptop and lose all of her mom's data. I some how feel that if I just kept my damn mouth closed that I wouldn't be in this place, but also feel that if she'd followed directions, that this wouldn't have happened. I even created a system restore in the laptop before the updating process, but I can't do it, if I can't access it!!!
Can anyone PLEASE help me out???? I'm desperate, cause I really REALLY like this girl, and don't want to piddle off an already angry lady who controls when her daughter leaves the house.
I noticed the little icon beside the clock telling her that she has updates available. I recommended to her that she install them. She wanted me to start it, then I told her to just let it sit, and do whatever it tells her to do, and that she may have to restart the laptop after this. Then, my GF and I went to my house.
I was dropping her off and her mom came out to my car and said that there was a problem and the laptop wouldn't turn on. Well, the woman had seen a progress bar read 100% so she decided to take it upon herself to restart the laptop.
And now the laptop will almost boot Vista Basic all the way, but will stop at the logon screen before you can see the users. It gives a dialogue box that reads: "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install Windows, click "OK" to restart the computer, and then restart the installation process." The box has an "OK" button, and a close-window X.
I've tried everything from popping in a Vista disk and trying to run the repair utilities, to pushing F8 at the startup and cycling through the different options (last known good configuration, safe mode, start normally, ect.) I CANNOT get it to start past that point!!!! I get The same error message everytime.
I do NOT want to reformat the laptop and lose all of her mom's data. I some how feel that if I just kept my damn mouth closed that I wouldn't be in this place, but also feel that if she'd followed directions, that this wouldn't have happened. I even created a system restore in the laptop before the updating process, but I can't do it, if I can't access it!!!
Can anyone PLEASE help me out???? I'm desperate, cause I really REALLY like this girl, and don't want to piddle off an already angry lady who controls when her daughter leaves the house.