Dell Inspiron 1545 Won't boot into safe mode or boot at all.

If you have a lot of important stuff on the laptop then it's imperative you get an external hard drive large enough to hold it. Murphy's law will strike with vengeance if you don't. Back it up now before you lose it.

Once you have it backed up then you can try things to fix this. Until then you are risking your precious data.

Try these

Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery

Jake1211,

Try the following, and let's see if this program can do the work for you...

Please plug USB flash drive into a clean computer.
Go to Start > Computer
Double-click Computer, and select the flash drive.
Right-click and select: Format
Press Start on the Format prompt.
Remove when done.

You may want to print these instructions so you can have access to follow
Also, you may want to read them once before you apply them.

Go to the Farbar Recovery Scan Tool Download
Select the 64-bit download.
Save the program to the >> USB flash drive.

Next, plug the flash drive into the problem computer.

Start the computer.

Please follow these instructions until you get to Step 6 and can access the Command Prompt:

Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery

• In the Command window, at the blinking cursor type notepad and press: Enter
• In Notepad, under the File menu select: Open
• Double-click Computer, find the flash drive letter, remember what letter it is, click on it, and press: Open
• Close out of Notepad.
• Click the Command window
• Type g:\frst64.exe, and press: Enter
  Note: Replace the drive letter g with the drive letter of your flash drive!
• The tool starts and prepares to run. Follow the prompts.
• Click Yes to the disclaimer.
• Press: Scan

When done, the program saves the FRST.txt report, on the flash drive.
Close Notepad, then, click the Command Prompt window, and type exit, and press: Enter

Back at the System Recovery Options, press: ShutDown.

Remove the USB flash drive from the infected computer, and plug it into the good computer.

Please provide the FRST.txt report, located on the USB flash drive, in your reply.

Jake1211 said:

All it does is boot to startup repair. I am NOT willing to do a clean install of Win7x64! I have to much important stuff on this laptop and do not have enough space to store it on anything else.

Dell Inspiron 1545
4gb ram
500Gb Hdd

Hi Jake1211,

It is always advisable to make a backup of the data on the system. If you have used dell datasafe once you have received the system then try this to restore the system:

http://dell.to/18w8gyx

Also, you can check this link below for troubleshooting boot failure on windows check this link below:

Troubleshooting Windows 7 Failure to Boot

You might require Windows 7 disk to fix the system. If you don't have the same then you can request it at the link below:

http://dell.to/Zj7oHA

Keep us posted with the results so we can advise you further.