SteveTraverse
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As you know I got my laptop used without any disks...and I don't have any remaining windows disks or otherwise from years ago when I got the desktop. (It was originally my grandfathers, I was still living at home at the time. He died without a will, the house went into probate, and most of our stuff was thrown away. The house was sold to an investor pretty quickly, and there really wasn't time to try and sell all that stuff. Step relatives got the house, kicked me to the curb) Stuff I kept was very minimal, disks were lost.
System recovery is definitely there, the last time I got there was because of the BSOD I was getting, and then I started to boot windows in safe mode, but halfway while it was loading I thought of something else I wanted to try and powered off. Big mistake. Windows would not start at all. Thats when I was able to get into recovery options and run Startup Repair for about 2 hours. After that it said it couldn't fix the problem, but windows was able to start normally.
I don't think risking that kind of situation is a good idea. But I'll check if its available through the "Windows did not start normally" due to power off while in windows instead of shutting down.
Are you sure setting the boot timer to more then 0 seconds wouldn't give me some time?
Really stupid that Msconfig doesn't let you get into recovery options, because I was reading some forum posts of other people whose F8 does not work, and that is where I learned about Msconfig.
So then, I need a boot disc after all, which means I need at least 8 gig flash drive.
In that case case Im stuck... (however, desperate times call for desperate measures...)
Whose bright idea was it to make this stuff nearly impossible to access?
I use Firefox, and thats become a deadend. I have 55, can't upgrade to 57 as it completely ruins Firefox in basically almost every way. Turns it into a ugly bugged mess of garbage. Nor do I use 56, as 56 unncessarily changed the help menu. If it ain't broken don't fix it! Firefox used to be able to customize the toolbars, to where you could put back, address bar, and search bar right into the menu bar so that you just had one toolbar for everything, and then tabs. These designers and programmers need to take an additional course on not having their heads up their ***.
System recovery is definitely there, the last time I got there was because of the BSOD I was getting, and then I started to boot windows in safe mode, but halfway while it was loading I thought of something else I wanted to try and powered off. Big mistake. Windows would not start at all. Thats when I was able to get into recovery options and run Startup Repair for about 2 hours. After that it said it couldn't fix the problem, but windows was able to start normally.
I don't think risking that kind of situation is a good idea. But I'll check if its available through the "Windows did not start normally" due to power off while in windows instead of shutting down.
Are you sure setting the boot timer to more then 0 seconds wouldn't give me some time?
Really stupid that Msconfig doesn't let you get into recovery options, because I was reading some forum posts of other people whose F8 does not work, and that is where I learned about Msconfig.
So then, I need a boot disc after all, which means I need at least 8 gig flash drive.
In that case case Im stuck... (however, desperate times call for desperate measures...)
Whose bright idea was it to make this stuff nearly impossible to access?
I use Firefox, and thats become a deadend. I have 55, can't upgrade to 57 as it completely ruins Firefox in basically almost every way. Turns it into a ugly bugged mess of garbage. Nor do I use 56, as 56 unncessarily changed the help menu. If it ain't broken don't fix it! Firefox used to be able to customize the toolbars, to where you could put back, address bar, and search bar right into the menu bar so that you just had one toolbar for everything, and then tabs. These designers and programmers need to take an additional course on not having their heads up their ***.
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