24vseven
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| posted on 3/12/07 at 12:02 PM |
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vista
hi guys n gals
my mothers lap top has thrown a wobbeler i think i need to reinstall vista it brings up the first boot page but then nothing i think one of the main
drivers is faulty or corrupt i have tryed all i can at this stage but she has no disc so i cant boot from disc to try to repair it
has anyone local got a copy of vista i may borrow
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RazMan
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| posted on 3/12/07 at 12:16 PM |
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A lappy will normally have very specialist drivers and usually has a re-install disc. You might have problems with the activation too, unless you have
a pukka key.
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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blakep82
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| posted on 3/12/07 at 12:28 PM |
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my laptop (5 years old, with xp) never had a reintallation disc. it was somehow stored on the PC, even if you formatted the whole disc. never needed
to, so i don't know how it works though...
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bonzoronnie
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 posted on 3/12/07 at 01:56 PM |
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Vista
Just a thought.
Have you tried to start vista in safe mode and the run the system restore.
Many laptops have a seperate boot partition on the hard drive ( This is for the ghost image ), If you try to install vista from scratch. This
partition is likely to be lost and there will be no going back if vista does not have the correct drivers for the laptop.
Ronnie 
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24vseven
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| posted on 3/12/07 at 02:37 PM |
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i can get to sysem restor on its version of safe mode but ther are no points to restore to they seam to have been wiped
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