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BurnMonkeeee
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September 4th, 2010 01:00
Startup problems windows 7 - Studio 15 58
Hello,
Recently I bought a Dell laptop Studio 15 with windows 7. It arrived yesterday.... I tried to make some additional partitions. Rebooted the laptop... and now I'm stuck on a blue screen at start up that disappears too fast to read the error. O-K-A-Y.. I never knew I could mess up a computer within 5 minutes...
Anyways, I tried to solve the problem in several ways.... with the help of this forum and google search.
Boot from cd/dvd and try to repair the system. I can choose from the following:
Startup Repair: "Your computer was unable to start" --> Windows cannot solve this problem automatically --> Eventually I get the same options again plus the Dell datasafe restore and emergency backup
System Restore: Doesn't work...
System image recovery: Unfortunately, I haven't made a system image...
Dell datasafe restore and emergency backup: One of the last solutions I wanted to try before asking help. So I clicked on this one to restore to the factory image. When I run this, it already fails after a few seconds at formatting your partition and gives me the following error message: Error 0x400110020000100A and it sends me back to the WELCOME screen.
I also tried to reinstall windows 7: It finds only 2 partitions. Disc 0 partition 1 OEM (reserved) 39.0 MB and disc 0 partition 2 System Recovery 17,6 Gb with only 7 Mb of free space left. I didn't dare to format the latter partition so I didn't try that one out yet...
I hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance!
Mark
BurnMonkeeee
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Posted September 4th, 2010 09:00
F8 IS working now.... let's see if I can get it to work...
I did nothing with the recovery partition... how can I check if the recovery partition is corrupted??
BurnMonkeeee
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Posted September 4th, 2010 10:00
I tried F8 as well... no succes.
I wish I could manually install windows7 but as you can see in my first post that ain't possible. I don't see the full harddisk size for some reason
This is annoying... I just emailed the Dell support... hopefully they can help me further as I did anything I found on the internet..
bestis1980
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Posted November 12th, 2010 22:00
When F8 IS working for you and your current windows doesn't work and you did nothing with the recovery partition, so why you don't restore the PC to the original factory condition? Do it and if you did nothing with the recovery partition it should works fine.
fireberd
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Posted September 4th, 2010 04:00
F8 at power on will allow you to access the Dell recovery partition and you can restore the PC to the original factory condition with this (and no discs are needed). However, with your partitioning or whatever you did if the recovery partition was corrupted you will have to manually reinstall.