Kwehchan747
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About two days ago, my laptop began running at a snails pace, before freezing up altogether. I managed to restart several times, only to have the same thing happen again and again. After about 5 restarts, the computer would not boot past the second black screen after startup, and now, I have the dreaded "Error Loading Operating system message". I tried loading from the Vista CD (and set my CD drive as first priority); however, it lingers at the green scrolling bar on the "Microsoft Corporation" page for several minutes before stopping at a black screen. For a while, I had the black screen with white cursor; however, that has now failed to show up.
When booting in any of the safe modes, I get the "Loading Windows Files" page; however the files stop loading at a certain driver, and the page does not progress, no matter how long I wait. Booting in "Last Known Good Config" yields the same results as a normal boot from the CD. I have tried every option on the Advance Boot Menu, but nothing works.
I have tried formatting a USB drive with BIOS, and even copied hte contents of the Vista CD to it; however when I try to load from the USB, I get a message along the lines of "Pen Driver without Operating System...please remove pen driver and restart," and the computer then proceeds to boot from the CD.
I have formatted my SATA (whatever that is; apologies, I'm not a computer expert) to IDE and my computer will recognise and load a Windows 7 cd. I have tried several repair options. Startup repair apparently cannot fix whatever error I have, I cannot restore to an earlier date (I get a message asking me to select an OS and restart), and I cannot restore to an image because I do not have one.
I have tried performing an upgrade to Windows 7; however, I get a message saying that Windows has begun to use the CD...please restart. I am not prepared to try a custom (advanced) install yet because, although I backed up the majority of my files after a (now resolved) incident two weeks ago, I have since added some photos, and do not want to lose them.
In the previous incident, my laptop did boot from the Vista CD, and I was able to access some sort of "load files" option which enabled me to access and copy my files into a hard drive. I have found the same option on the Windows 7 CD; however in order to access my hard drive, I must format it, and, presumably lose my files.
Some more information:
-I cannot use Alt + F10 at all
-F10 by itself brings up an Edit Boot Options Menu, which I do not know how to use
-I cannot use F8 at startup. The only way I can access the F8 menu is by waiting until the CD finishes loading its files, or by using the spacebar, selecting "Windows Setup [EMS]" and pressing F8.
-I cannot access any repair options on the F8 menu
-Pressing shift 5 times does nothing
-Other than on the F2/F12 startup screen, ctrl+alt+del, Fn+esc. ctrl+shift+esc does nothing
I am using an Acer Aspire 5810T laptop, with pre-installed Vista. Unfortunately, the only thing that came in the box with it was its recharger, so I did not receive any sort of recovery disc; however, I have been using the Vista and Windows 7 discs that came with our new home computer. The Vista CD, as I said, has worked for me before; I have not used the Windows 7 CD before.
So to sum it all up, my computer will not boot past a black screen (no cursor), it will boot a Windows 7 CD but not a Vista, trying to boot from hard drive yields the "Error loading operating system" message, and trying to boot from a USB drive yields the "Pen Drive Without Operating System" message.
Any help whatsoever would be greatly appreciated. More than anything, I just want to be able to copy my newest folder (which I should have backed up, I know! I know!) onto an external. After that, I would more than willingly start from a clean install of Windows 7 (Not Vista, again!!!).
When booting in any of the safe modes, I get the "Loading Windows Files" page; however the files stop loading at a certain driver, and the page does not progress, no matter how long I wait. Booting in "Last Known Good Config" yields the same results as a normal boot from the CD. I have tried every option on the Advance Boot Menu, but nothing works.
I have tried formatting a USB drive with BIOS, and even copied hte contents of the Vista CD to it; however when I try to load from the USB, I get a message along the lines of "Pen Driver without Operating System...please remove pen driver and restart," and the computer then proceeds to boot from the CD.
I have formatted my SATA (whatever that is; apologies, I'm not a computer expert) to IDE and my computer will recognise and load a Windows 7 cd. I have tried several repair options. Startup repair apparently cannot fix whatever error I have, I cannot restore to an earlier date (I get a message asking me to select an OS and restart), and I cannot restore to an image because I do not have one.
I have tried performing an upgrade to Windows 7; however, I get a message saying that Windows has begun to use the CD...please restart. I am not prepared to try a custom (advanced) install yet because, although I backed up the majority of my files after a (now resolved) incident two weeks ago, I have since added some photos, and do not want to lose them.
In the previous incident, my laptop did boot from the Vista CD, and I was able to access some sort of "load files" option which enabled me to access and copy my files into a hard drive. I have found the same option on the Windows 7 CD; however in order to access my hard drive, I must format it, and, presumably lose my files.
Some more information:
-I cannot use Alt + F10 at all
-F10 by itself brings up an Edit Boot Options Menu, which I do not know how to use
-I cannot use F8 at startup. The only way I can access the F8 menu is by waiting until the CD finishes loading its files, or by using the spacebar, selecting "Windows Setup [EMS]" and pressing F8.
-I cannot access any repair options on the F8 menu
-Pressing shift 5 times does nothing
-Other than on the F2/F12 startup screen, ctrl+alt+del, Fn+esc. ctrl+shift+esc does nothing
I am using an Acer Aspire 5810T laptop, with pre-installed Vista. Unfortunately, the only thing that came in the box with it was its recharger, so I did not receive any sort of recovery disc; however, I have been using the Vista and Windows 7 discs that came with our new home computer. The Vista CD, as I said, has worked for me before; I have not used the Windows 7 CD before.
So to sum it all up, my computer will not boot past a black screen (no cursor), it will boot a Windows 7 CD but not a Vista, trying to boot from hard drive yields the "Error loading operating system" message, and trying to boot from a USB drive yields the "Pen Drive Without Operating System" message.
Any help whatsoever would be greatly appreciated. More than anything, I just want to be able to copy my newest folder (which I should have backed up, I know! I know!) onto an external. After that, I would more than willingly start from a clean install of Windows 7 (Not Vista, again!!!).
