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Vista, recovery disc, UBCD fail to load.

Started by MisterCorn , Jun 21 2011 04:08 PM

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MisterCorn

Posted 21 June 2011 - 04:08 PM

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So, about to reload it, but decided to post here for curiosity's sake.

I have a laptop in, Dell E6500, running Vista Enterprise 32bit, and it will not load anything. I have run the built in Dell diagnostics, tried Safe Mode, tried the recovery cd, tried a UBCD, and every time, I end up staring at a load screen that just won't quit. Tried each stick of memory alone, although I figured it wouldn't work, and I was right. The UBCD not loading is very surprising, watching the XP load screen is kinda nostalgic, though.

Any ideas how this is happening?

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paws

Posted 28 June 2011 - 01:23 PM

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990 posts

Sorry to hear of the problem with your Dell computer,
Have you checked in the BIOS that the boot priority is set to CD/DVD as priority 1 and hard drive 0 is priority 2...? and then saved the changes before exiting the BIOS?
Regards
paws