Recent content by Sorren66

Thanks for the input. Had a techie friend take a look and he diagnosed a damaged hard drive. He has the tools to recover most of my data and said this is a common failure on most laptops due to less than gentle treatment. Guilty as charged. I will be able to replace the hard drive for about...

Hello- My 2 year old $400 Acer laptop that has win 7 32 bit home edition locked up while surfing last night and I cannot get it to open. I tried safe mode it hangs up on the starting windows screen. I hit F8 and tried the launch start up repair function to no avail. What else should I try...