laptop help.

[cyanide-sid]

My son has mucked up on his laptop by trying to sort out a virus and in doing so cocked things right up.

At the moment I have the 'Full destructive recovery' running to get it all back to the original factory settings but this seems to give up 2 thirds of the way through the process for some reason.

When you turn the pc on it comes straight in on the recovery process message.

Any ideas otherwise the boy is going to start moving in on my pc and start ww3.

 

[patcham lad]

laptop help

seems a job for system restore

 

['sladegull]

If you have windows installation disk you could try booting from that and re-installing windows ....you may need to change the boot sequence in the setup to look at the DVD drive first though as the default will be C drive. To get into the setup you need to hit one of the PF keys on startup.....cant remember which off the top of my head tho....

If you dont have a install disk you could download an image and create one on your PC , as long as you are using a genuine Windows Key for the version of windows you create the disk for you should have no problem....

 

[Laptop Ell]

My son has mucked up on his laptop by trying to sort out a virus and in doing so cocked things right up.

At the moment I have the 'Full destructive recovery' running to get it all back to the original factory settings but this seems to give up 2 thirds of the way through the process for some reason.

When you turn the pc on it comes straight in on the recovery process message.

Any ideas otherwise the boy is going to start moving in on my pc and start ww3.

Did this issue get fixed or do you need some further asistance?

 

[adrian29uk]

Did this issue get fixed or do you need some further asistance?

Shity bloody Windows. Sorted a laptop last night where Vista froze so customer tried fixing using restore. As usual this did not work.

The most important part was getting the documents off it, so all I did was stuck an Ubuntu disk in, loaded the live cd and the Vista drive was mounted on the desktop.

Dragged everything from Vista on to the external hard drive, then properly killed the laptop using the manufacturers disk which formatted the hard drive and installed Vista from scratch.

 

[cyanide-sid]

Did this issue get fixed or do you need some further asistance?

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