[cutehumor]

I'm new here, so I'm not sure if this is in the right area. I have been getting into safe mode on my hard drive due to a windows problem. Well, when the HD booted, I accidentally hit F 10 instead of F 8 for save mode and the system recovery came up. I do not want to recover as it will wipe out my entire 120 GB hard drive. I hit cancel. here's where it gets interesting. The pc automatically reboots into systems recovery and will not stop. I hit cancel system recovery each time. is there a way to get out of this loop?

 

[Riskyone101]

Try this:

1. unplug power cord
2. remove the battery also.
3. wait 1 or 2 min
4. plug in power cord
5. leave battery out of it till you fix problem
6. this will help in diagnosing the problem

 

[dai]

is this a laptop or desktop

 

[cutehumor]

This is on a Sony Vaio desktop PCV-RS 520

 

[dai]

try and boot from a linux live cd disk and see what you can see on the C partition

 

[cutehumor]

Try this:

1. unplug power cord
2. remove the battery also.
3. wait 1 or 2 min
4. plug in power cord
5. leave battery out of it till you fix problem
6. this will help in diagnosing the problem

I unplugged the power cord, removed the battery, I waited five minutes. I plugged the cord back in without battery. The computer booted straight into bios and asked me if I wanted to load the default bios. I said yes, then the pc booted straight into system recovery again. F8 is not responding before system recovery starts.

 

[cutehumor]

try and boot from a linux live cd disk and see what you can see on the C partition

I'm not sure which window files to look for in C drive?

 

[dai]

files you may want to get off and save