Laptop factory restore interrupted

stilltheone

Reboot and press F8 just at restarting. Do you get an option to 'Repair your computer'?

mrschaucer

No, just the same awful noise!

closed

clicking/clunking/fan noise or something else?

same thing on screen?

mrschaucer

Prolonged beep when holding keys, same thing on screen - black with cursor top left.

closed

Find the recovery discs and try to boot from them

mrschaucer

OK, thanks to everybody. Am now going away to turn the house upside down.

stilltheone

There are a number of ways to tackle this problem, from finding and re-enabling the hidden partition or possibly starting the recovery process from the Boot menu.

However I've just had my tea and feel a bit snoozy. Will come back to see how you are doing later.

Nevertheless, it really will run nicely with XP. 1GB RAM in conjunction with other hardware is a good combination. Supplying it with Vista was a mistake.

But it you prefer we can attack the restoring the use of the recovery partition(snore)