Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 which has gone haywire. I was using it a few days ago when it just shut down for no reason. Upon booting it went to a black screen with a white blinking cursor.
I have tried to boot it into safe mode = not working at all.
I have tried to use recovery console = not working at all.
The only F-keys working are F2 and F12. Neither of which are helping in repairing my laptop.
I tried and tried again to reboot but nothing. I then left it overnight thinking it might have booted by the time I got back to it, but nothing.
Using my daughters laptop I downloaded Hirens boot cd, had a look through that and run an antispyware app. Rebooted and still nothing. Tried to boot from hard drive, black screen. I don't know what else I could use from the disc which might help.
A friend had a copy of spotmau bootable cd. I tried that and running the emergency kit section and then windows recovery I went through each option one by one.However it failed on the registry recovery.
I could have used the registry recovery but I have no idea where the registry file would be, so I left it at that.
There's also an option to recover from an image file. But I can't get it even though there is a Dell backup image on there.
I have the Dell recovery console built in but it ain't happening because I can't access it, it's just this black screen.
Can anyone help in getting me up and running again?
I have tried to boot it into safe mode = not working at all.
I have tried to use recovery console = not working at all.
The only F-keys working are F2 and F12. Neither of which are helping in repairing my laptop.
I tried and tried again to reboot but nothing. I then left it overnight thinking it might have booted by the time I got back to it, but nothing.
Using my daughters laptop I downloaded Hirens boot cd, had a look through that and run an antispyware app. Rebooted and still nothing. Tried to boot from hard drive, black screen. I don't know what else I could use from the disc which might help.
A friend had a copy of spotmau bootable cd. I tried that and running the emergency kit section and then windows recovery I went through each option one by one.However it failed on the registry recovery.
I could have used the registry recovery but I have no idea where the registry file would be, so I left it at that.
There's also an option to recover from an image file. But I can't get it even though there is a Dell backup image on there.
I have the Dell recovery console built in but it ain't happening because I can't access it, it's just this black screen.
Can anyone help in getting me up and running again?