Re: Laptop Battery Falls Out, Now Vista Doesn't Boot

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Hi,

You likely damaged the installation with the sudden power loss and your only viable option may be to invoke whatever recovery method HP provided for you.

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"technoob09" <technoob09.3p6fva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:technoob09.3p6fva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Laptop in question: HP Pavilion DV2000, running Windows Vista Home (I
think 32-bit).

Today, I was using my laptop, running on battery power only.
Unfortunately, the battery no longer locks. I moved the laptop and the
battery fell out. Naturally, as was not plugged in to an external power
source, my laptop shut off.

Upon re-inserting the battery (and plugging in the laptop to an
external power source for good measure), I received the "Windows Error
Recovery" screen, presenting me with:

Safe Mode
Safe Mode with Networking
Safe Mode with Command Prompt
Start Windows Normally

I tried "Start Windows Normally", and after a loading screen (Microsoft
Corporation at bottom), then the screen went black. I could see the
mouse on screen, yet Vista would not boot up.

I manually shut down my computer and this time selected "Safe Mode":
same thing, loading screen, then screen goes black with mouse.

I then hit "F7" to get to the "Advanced Boot Options":

REPAIR YOUR COMPUTER
SAFE MODE
Safe mode with networking
Safe mode with command prompt
Enable boot logging
ENABLE LOW RESOLUTION VIDEO (640 × 480)
LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION (ADVANCED)
Directory services restore mode
DEBUGGING MODE
DISABLE AUTOMATIC RESTART ON SYSTEM FAILURE
Disable Driver Signature Enforcement
START WINDOWS NORMALLY

I tried the options in *bold*, and the same thing happened each time:
loading screen, then screen goes black with mouse, Vista does not load.

I also tried the "Repair your computer" option, which got me to the
"System Recovery Options" screen where I didn't know how to
proceed...(so I simply restarted, never actually getting to the loading
screen).

The only other possible thing was the fact that I had unchecked a few
Nvidia options in "Startup" using "msconfig" (all of which were not
necessary on startup). However, after doing this,
I__was_able_to_restart_the_computer_twice_without_any_problems_ (before
the battery fell out), so I'm pretty sure this isn't the problem.

I'm so lost!


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