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Subject: Windows failed to start HELP ME!

Know your limitations and dont go making things worse.
Go confess like you did last time - pay your fee if you have used up all your free service time.

The school will reimage it, be quick and cheap.
And hopefully you have not been silly enough to save important info onto [only] the system drive.

Then ask your school to lock out your admin rights and promote updates through a school hosted server install image, which can then be done in a controlled manner with elevated privileges. School gets a log of OS patches, plus an asset register, plus you cant accidently break stuff.

  • 01.07.2013 6:13 PM PDT

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Download the Windows ISO and put it onto a DVD (the ISO size is 3.9 GB). This is perfectly legal by the way.

Go into your BIOS and set your computer to boot from your DVD drive.

Insert the DVD after you put Windows 7 on it.

Now the installer will appear. Click on something that says "repair your computer" or something like that, and then run the repair tool.

Done

Same thing happened to me a week ago. Doing the above fixed it.

  • 01.07.2013 6:15 PM PDT


Posted by: DarkBen64

Posted by: Ghost 4119
I tried Directory services restore mode and that didnt work either. Same error screen as the rest. What now?
Buy a Mac.


So it can crash once and need two thousand dollar repairs?
NO THANK YOU

  • 01.07.2013 6:16 PM PDT


Posted by: TopWargamer
Download the Windows ISO and put it onto a DVD (the ISO size is 3.9 GB). This is perfectly legal by the way.

Go into your BIOS and set your computer to boot from your DVD drive.

Insert the DVD after you put Windows 7 on it.

Now the installer will appear. Click on something that says "repair your computer" or something like that, and then run the repair tool.

Done

Same thing happened to me a week ago. Doing the above fixed it.

This. You need something with a functioning operating system on it.

If that doesn't work, which I doubt it won't, you could mount Puppy Linux on a usb stick, boot it up, copy the files to an external, and reinstall Windows fresh in similar fashion to TopWargamer's idea.

  • 01.07.2013 6:20 PM PDT

Posted by: ABotelho
If that doesn't work, which I doubt it won't, you could mount Puppy Linux on a usb stick, boot it up, copy the files to an external, and reinstall Windows fresh in similar fashion to TopWargamer's idea.

The OP is having trouble getting into the bios ... how is he going to get a usb linux install going?

The poor school admin will just love all these sugestions.

  • 01.08.2013 3:56 AM PDT

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