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Hi everyone, been a long time since I've been on here. Need a bit of help - I've put this in this section although my problem didin't start like that. I have a HP Pavilion Slimline tower model s5615uk which was running Win 7 64-bit Premium edition. Over the last week the monitor randomly went blank as if it was going to sleep (orange light instead of normal blue) no matter what I seemed to be doing at the time and got progressively worse so I tried several things. Downloaded and installed the latest video driver from the HP support site - no change. Tried a different monitor - no change. Ran various antivirus/malware/spyware programs - no change. Restored the system to an earlier time - no change. In the end, decided to back up all my personal data (while the monitor was working) and do a recovery back to factory settings using the disks I had made when the system was new. You get the choice to run this from the disks or from the recovery partition on the hard disk - I chose the latter which I think was my mistake because not long into the process the monitor decided to go blank and now I am left with no way to recover the OS because even if I use a Win boot CD it says BOOTMGR missing as if it has started to overwrite the disk but not completed the recovery. Can you offer any suggestions as to how to get the OS recovered - would I need to buy a fresh Win 7 package as it it were a blank hard disk.?
Please help if you can.
Thank you.