Recent content by Craig75942

Sorry for the late late reply... got computer up and running again and have made my own recovery disk etc for safe keeping.. got another question now... i have used windows update and it has installed everything except one which is an important security update for windows 7 for x64-based system...

Ok... sorry for the late reply...i finally got my pc up and running again by downloading a win7 64bit repair disk and putting it onto a usb...when i got back to the desktop i ran chkdsk and have made a repair disk via my computer for safe keeping. However, trying to do windows updates it...

Hi Saltgrass. Following the blue box with windows defender and the bar going from left to right....left it for 5 hrs but no change...

Hi Titanic, There is no disk...so this must have a hidden partition. I did click your link and tried the option 1 with the hidden partition...hitting alt and f10...looked like it was going to work but it just come up please wait blah blah....but nothing loads. i leave it like this for ages but...

Saltgrass, Starting the offline windows defender at the moment...although i think it's stopped working... i put the usb in and it said windows is loading files and the scroll bar below it was going accross, it reached the end and started again although this time it has stopped or is this...

Hi Titanic I got the laptop from a big retailer shop . The laptop is a Emachines model..so do i contact them or the retailer? Thanks

Hi Saltgrass, Thanks for coming back. I have tried the F8 and the result is the same as when i try normally or try to load safe mode as i mentioned in the first post. I download a recovery disk before but when i ran it the result is the same as trying to load the startup repair from the laptop...

Hi all, I don't know if i'm in the right place or whether this problem has been posted before...so here goes... I shutdown as usual the other day and now today i switch on and win7 is not loading. It comes up with Launch Startup Repair or Start Windows Normally screen. Windows will not start...