Recent content by Carol Smith

Lol, yes I understand. Backing up to the cloud even as we speak. I will copy to disc first thing tomorrow. Weirdest thing I've ever seen. To my knowledge, the vista recovery disc never even ran. Lucky lucky lucky girl. Feel like I should be buying a lotto ticket Sent from my iPhone using...

For all parties..... For reasons I can't possibly explain. I left the computer on the BSOD possibly asked it to restart. But never went back today to look at it. Tonight I went to turn it off and Voila.... ITS ON! I'm so confused. But I'll take it. I'm sure the computer is still basically...

Kemical. .... I'm sure you will just shake your head at my stupidity but..... There are all sorts of CDs R- R+ RW- RW+. What in the world do I get? Sent from my iPhone using Windows Forums mobile app

Kemical.... Yep, that shipped sailed. lol My kiddo has been delayed getting home but I'm still on it. Thanks darlin Sent from my iPhone using Windows Forums mobile app

Kemical.... Stupidly I just thought I had a better chance using a vista recovery disc. Dumb dumb girl! I already have Ubuntu and imgburn downloaded. As soon as my teenager brings my car back, I'll run out and grab some more CDS and try it. You're a doll for trying so hard to help me. Much...

Holdum.... Okay I'll go check that out. I need to make a screaming emoji!

Kemical.... And I think it's adorable that you think I understand how to use Twitter. I don't even have Facebook. Lol

I did change the order and also tried booting from F10. Downloaded the vista recovery disc from NeoSmart Tech.

Kemical.... Got a vista recovery disc. You will not believe this! I have the boot menu up, I'm selecting the proper thing, I hear the disc running and it keeps kicking me a message asking me to insert a disc and press a key. I DID! 29 TIMES! I'm ready to throw it out the window. So now I...

Kemical... Thanks so much. I'm going to try first thing tomorrow and I'll let you know. I was just too frustrated today to deal with it so I walked away for awhile.

Sandbox.... Sadly I'm not very confident with computers. All I have been able to do so far was just from reading for hours off of websites, blogs, etc. I'm not quite sure how to try what you're suggesting but at this time, I'll try anything. I'd set the thing on fire if there was a chance the...

Kemical.... Okay I can probably accomplish that. It was suggested to me that I obtain a Ubuntu Live CD to boot off of. Do you have any knowledge of this program and if that is a viable option? Id sure hate to mess up someone else's computer in the process of saving my own.

Sandbox.... Is that an option? Can I remove the hard drive and pull everything off of it? I'm not very computer savvy, so how might I accomplish that? I don't care so much about losing the computer if I can save the graduation pics and the video of the graduation address, which happened to be...

Kemical.... Thank you for getting back to me. Unfortunately, I have repeatedly tried to boot up in safe mode and safe mode with command. Neither works. It will start listing files but stops after a couple of seconds and says please wait at the bottom. After a couple of hours, no change...

Short version if that's possible.... I turned on my Gateway PC today running Vista and was given the BSOD. Did not panic, simply rebooted. Unfortunately it never got past the initial screen. I did go into BIOS but am unsure what to look for. Did go into Advanced boot menu... Safe mode and...