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Blinking underscore on Boot-up
Hi everyone,
I have an HP laptop that upon boot-up would show the HP logo and then go to a constant blinking underscore on the upper left hand corner.
During the HP logo screen, I pressed f2 to enter "HP Startup" where I scan the hard drive and it passed all the test.
Also I can go into the BIOS by pressing f10. From my research, I changed the order of boot-up and put local hard drive at the very top. I also unplugged the battery. And laptop is still not working.
I also read that perhaps putting in a System Repair Disk might help(?) But I just discover that my cd-rom drive is not working...
Can someone explain to me what would be the best way/ or my options in going about to recovering my data?
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks