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Windows error recovery & bsod
Hi guys! I am absolutely incapable in the tech world... i hope someone here can help me. I have a dell vostro 3500 running windows 7... ive had it for 5 years so he's an old man but except for getting hot he worked fine. Today i woke up and turned on the computer... the windows error recovery screen came up with 2 options. 1) launch start up repair (when doing this, it says "windoes is loading files... then the screen goes black for about a minute, and then a lightblue screen appears with my mouse cursor. I can move the cursor but thats all i can do. I cannot reach task manager and also i dont get the sticky keys pop up when clicking shift a lot as some people suggested solves their problem. The only thing left to do is force shut down via power button.)
2) start windows normally (when doing this, the "starting windows" screen comes up with the logo.. it gets stuck here for about 1 minute, then for a split second the blue sod comes up and then it reboots and im back at the windows error recovery screen.)
I've tried f8 to safe mode, but it also ends in the bsod, and reboot to error recovery screen.
I have no cds, no other functioning computer around, and some files on the laptop that arent backed up (just great, right? Ughhh)
Help please! Thanks a lot