Laptop won't boot up

[Ian Ashwood]

My daughter's Advent 7088 took a routine Windows XP upgrade a few days
ago and since then won't start up.

We get the option to start in safe mode or to go back to last good
configuration but that makes no difference.

It then proceeds to the Norton Go Back progress bar and we've tried
with that to "go back" but to no avail.

It then goes to XP progress bar for a few seconds and then just hangs.

Any suggestions?

 

[Nightlegend]

Greetings:

I suggest you do a repair installation ,the below mentioned symptoms are
strongly reffering to corrupted installation ,check the following website
for details:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Best regards

 

[Brian A.]

My daughter's Advent 7088 took a routine Windows XP upgrade a few days
ago and since then won't start up.

We get the option to start in safe mode or to go back to last good
configuration but that makes no difference.

It then proceeds to the Norton Go Back progress bar and we've tried
with that to "go back" but to no avail.

It then goes to XP progress bar for a few seconds and then just hangs.

Any suggestions?

How to start the System Restore tool at a command prompt in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304449/

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How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[nass]

My daughter's Advent 7088 took a routine Windows XP upgrade a few days
ago and since then won't start up.

We get the option to start in safe mode or to go back to last good
configuration but that makes no difference.

It then proceeds to the Norton Go Back progress bar and we've tried
with that to "go back" but to no avail.

It then goes to XP progress bar for a few seconds and then just hangs.

Any suggestions?

Try the upgrade gain, it may be the first upgrade wasn't successful!.
HTH.
nass

 

[nass]

My daughter's Advent 7088 took a routine Windows XP upgrade a few days
ago and since then won't start up.

We get the option to start in safe mode or to go back to last good
configuration but that makes no difference.

It then proceeds to the Norton Go Back progress bar and we've tried
with that to "go back" but to no avail.

It then goes to XP progress bar for a few seconds and then just hangs.

Any suggestions?

Forget to tell, is the Laptop hardware compatible with the upgrade?.

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316941

 

[Gerry]

Can you do that in Safe Mode?


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[DL]

WinXp Update, not upgrade
Since its an Advent it will likely have a recovery cd only

 

[Ian Ashwood]

For some reason I accepted the option to de-install Norton Go Back and
was then able to reboot successfully. I've now reinstalled Go Back and
all is still ok.

Thanks for all suggestions.

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My daughter's Advent 7088 took a routine Windows XP upgrade a few
days
ago and since then won't start up.

We get the option to start in safe mode or to go back to last good
configuration but that makes no difference.

It then proceeds to the Norton Go Back progress bar and we've tried
with that to "go back" but to no avail.

It then goes to XP progress bar for a few seconds and then just
hangs.

Any suggestions?




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Ian Ashwood-

Forget to tell, is the Laptop hardware compatible with the upgrade?.

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316941

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[bojimbo26one]

As you`ve reinstalled GoBack , it might hang again . If you need it
for system restore , try using ERUNT system instead .