I am in deep trouble and need some assitance. From experience I can always get a answer on here.
I just started my laptop up. It booted up to Windows XP. I could see my desktop and all the icons fine. Well I know my battery was getting bad but the connestion to the power supply did not seem right. So I unpluged it and the computer turned off. Now when I try to start it back up, it tries, I see windows XP and then it goes to a message window. It prompts me to open windows in safe mode, normal start up. Start up when the software was working correctly and so on. nȯne of these work. I can get into just about everything but I am just not knowlegeable enough to go further. I don't want to lose all my files by doing something wrong. I have some very important files and pictures on it. I backed everything up two weeks ago, but have newer stuff not backed up.
What can I do to get this back to normal?
I do get a prompt that states I had a power failure and start in safe mode, but I try and that does not work for me.
I don't have a recovery disc in hand. This is a sister in laws laptop that I am borrowing. I don't want to delete everything and start over. it seems most of the local shops always want top do it the easy way.......you lost everything so your out of luck. Let's just reload everything.
Help would be greatly appreciated.
Bob
I just started my laptop up. It booted up to Windows XP. I could see my desktop and all the icons fine. Well I know my battery was getting bad but the connestion to the power supply did not seem right. So I unpluged it and the computer turned off. Now when I try to start it back up, it tries, I see windows XP and then it goes to a message window. It prompts me to open windows in safe mode, normal start up. Start up when the software was working correctly and so on. nȯne of these work. I can get into just about everything but I am just not knowlegeable enough to go further. I don't want to lose all my files by doing something wrong. I have some very important files and pictures on it. I backed everything up two weeks ago, but have newer stuff not backed up.
What can I do to get this back to normal?
I do get a prompt that states I had a power failure and start in safe mode, but I try and that does not work for me.
I don't have a recovery disc in hand. This is a sister in laws laptop that I am borrowing. I don't want to delete everything and start over. it seems most of the local shops always want top do it the easy way.......you lost everything so your out of luck. Let's just reload everything.
Help would be greatly appreciated.
Bob