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Laptop will not boot

12 years ago

When I boot my Windows 7 laptop, I see a screen that says, "To interrupt normal Windows startup, press enter". When I don't press enter, it goes to a blank screen with a cursor in the upper left corner - nothing else happens no matter how long I wait. What to do????

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mikie_gw
12 years ago
If mine, as soon as I saw the first signs of live on the display I would push and hold in the power button for maybe 5 seconds - which will cause a hardware reset.

Then if still no go... I would be tapping the F8 key to try to get to the special Startup menu... Then choose startup repair.

If you cant get to the startup menu you need to know how to boot from DVD, which a few ways on mine.. One is maybe F2 or F10, or F11.. I forget quickly after power up. Another way is Ctrl + C or Ctrl + D quickly after power on. To boot off a Windows7 repair disc, or windows 7 install disc DVD, to get to its StartUp repair function.

If you don't have a win7 install dvd or startup repair dvd disc, you can make a StartUp Repair disc/DVD/CD off of another win7 computer with same matching bits. . x64 or 32 bit.

This post was edited by mikie on Sun, Feb 9, 14 at 17:11
shuffles_gw
Original Author
12 years ago
Thank you for the response Mikie. Holding the power button didn't work. However, hitting the enter key took me to the Safe Mode option page. I chose open Windows Normally, and Windows fixed itself.
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