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sony vaio laptop windows 7 wont load/boot...

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athenrye

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Posted February 7, 2013 at 12:28PM

my daughter-in-laws laptop (Sony Vaio laptop windows 7 vgn-nw20ef) wont boot/load

it was working fine, she got the metropolitan ukash virus, she tried to reformat/recover/reboot (she doesn't know and cant explain!) and now the laptop goes round in circles at start up

when you start the laptop it asks what you want to do, you get a text screen with windows 7, option of press F8 for other options and some more text, when you enter win 7 it hangs and closes down

ive tried accessing the recovery partition in F10 and going through the process of factory reset but it gets to 100% and then closes down and you start again with the text window, ive used the tools to check hardware and that's fine

it seems she has deleted messed with win7, so it doesn't load...

whats my next best bet to get it going again?

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Jock1e

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Posted February 7, 2013 at 4:08PM

Or from here.

W/7 ISO

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athenrye

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Posted February 7, 2013 at 5:36PM

right folks im back to having a working laptop again after going round in circles, it looks likes its factory reset, however im back to this post I made earlier...

do you think I can change the dual boot log without messing it up again, or just leave it the way it is working!

ive tried going to advanced system and recovery and changing the boot to time to display os 0, in start up and recovery. this didn't change anything

so im now in msconfig, system and configuration, general tab has the selective startup checked, ive looked and I think it should be normal startup...

am I correct, should I change it?

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Jock1e

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Posted February 7, 2013 at 6:01PM

athenrye

Sorry not got a clue as to which is best.

Maybe wait for Fruit Bat /\0/\ to come back he is the expert.

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Jock1e

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Posted February 7, 2013 at 6:06PM

Just checked mine using W/8 and it is set to selective start up.

If it is a restore to factory settings I would say normal start up.

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Jock1e

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Posted February 8, 2013 at 4:53PM

Did you get it sorted athenrye or still having problems.

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