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General Computer Support / Windows repair won't run from USB stick or CD
« on: January 13, 2014, 02:22:41 am »
Hi. My laptop runs with Windows XP Professional and is now stuck in a permanent reboot loop that will not boot into any mode, Safe, Normal, Last Known etc. It also does not have a Windows Repair option built in. This reboot loop was somewhat unexpected so I havent backed up my files recently and would rather not do a complete reinstall. I think it has been caused by my trying to uninstall the latest Avast free software which started causing problems ever since it updated. The final uninstallation advice was to do it in Safe mode and when I went to reboot into this I got the never ending loop.
I downloaded 'your' latest Windows Repair yesterday and copied all the files onto both a USB drive and a CD. However, when I used both in the laptop it failed to open up any of the files. I did reset the BOOT order to the appropriate setting each time and checked it hadn't changed after the first failure. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for your time
I downloaded 'your' latest Windows Repair yesterday and copied all the files onto both a USB drive and a CD. However, when I used both in the laptop it failed to open up any of the files. I did reset the BOOT order to the appropriate setting each time and checked it hadn't changed after the first failure. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for your time