Solved System restore not completing, no access to safe mode

Hi All,

I am working on an old Samsung r710 laptop running Vista, which is not booting.

I cannot boot to safe mode using F8.

I have to option to re-image using Samsung restore, but would rather avoid doing this.

I have booted using a Vista CD (SP2), and run Startup Repair which did not resolve the issue.
I have run System restore but this does not compete successfully, have tried three different restore points. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error 0x8007045D.

Again booting from CD I have used the command prompt to run chkdisk - no errors, and sfc /scannow - which I am in the process of running for the Third time and is finding corrupt files but not repairing all of them.

After sfc has finished for the 3rd time I will try system restore again, try to boot again. After that I'm out of idea.

Is there anything else I can try before just re-imaging the C drive?

Kind Regards,

Sandy.

What happens when you try to boot into safe mode?

If no key was pressed the screen remained dark (but not as dark as it would be if powered down). If F8 was pressed it would remain the same but would eventually beep if F8 or any other key was pressed.

I just decided to go ahead and re-image the partition so I will mark the thread as solved.

Thank you for the reply.