Cannot Start System Resore

[Bazingle]

Yesterday on my Advent Quantum Q200 Laptop I got a message while starting it up saying 'Windows failed to start A recent hardware or software change might be the cause'
I haven't done anything like downloading or anything, it was working fine the day before.
I've clicked everything and it just won't do anything.

From the 'Repair Computer' option it gives me a little menu, which again I've tried everything.

'Start Microsoft Windows Repair Enviroment' - Nothing happens for 5 mins then it freezes

'Reinstall Windows' - Brings me too 2 Restore options, the first one which Saves all my personal documents Also does nothing then Freezes, the second option which is removes Everything on the hard drive does this; It Brings me to a screen saying this process will take 30 mins to an hour to complete. It has 5 steps, I left
It on for 14 hours and it was still at step 1 looking like no progress had happened.

I've also Pressed F8 and clicked every option from there including all Safe mode options; Each one just restarts the laptop.

I have no disc with the laptop and I just want it working again

Any help would be Greatly appreciated, Thank you.

Also sorry for the long post

 

[seavixen32]

Welcome to Windows Seven Forums.

Assuming you have access to another computer, you need to create a system repair disc that you can use to boot into the Windows Recovery Environment, from where you can run a Startup Repair.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2083-system-repair-disc-create.html

 

[Arc]

'Windows failed to start A recent hardware or software change might be the cause'

Another thing you should try in this situation.

Boot into http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/666-advanced-boot-options.html , and select Last Know Good Configuration (advanced) .

It recovers the boot problems due to any hardware or software changes most of the times.

 

[Bazingle]

Thank you for the reply, 2 questions, does it have to be a certain disc or can it be any blank disc? Also When I put this disc into the Laptop with the error, will it bring some sort of menu up allowing me to Completely restart it?

Thank you for the help.

 

[Bazingle]

'Windows failed to start A recent hardware or software change might be the cause'

Another thing you should try in this situation.

Boot into http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/666-advanced-boot-options.html , and select Last Know Good Configuration (advanced) .

It recovers the boot problems due to any hardware or software changes most of the times.

Already clicked on that and it Just restarted the laptop. Thank you anyway

 

[Arc]

Make it sure that the disk is created from a computer having same bit and version of windows. You can use any blank disk for it. Boot your computer from that disk and run (click :ar http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html .

Already clicked on that and it Just restarted the laptop. Thank you anyway

Does it work now ?

 

[Bazingle]

Make it sure that the disk is created from a computer having same bit and version of windows. You can use any blank disk for it. Boot your computer from that disk and run (click :ar http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html .

Already clicked on that and it Just restarted the laptop. Thank you anyway

Does it work now ?

Unfortunately I won't be able to create the disc until about 3pm as I can't get ahold of another laptop until then(posting from iPhone at the moment) but If it works then thank you so much. Great forum this is, usually don't get such a good response as quick as this.

 

[seavixen32]

OK, keep us posted and just follow the steps given in the tutorial to create your repair disc.

Although you can't use it to reinstall Windows, you can use it to access the advanced recovery options.

 

[Bazingle]

I made the disc and put it in, but when I click 'start Microsoft windows repair enviroment' then click next, it still doesn't go to the next page.

 

[Bazingle]

It brings me to the keyboard selection, I click English and it does nothing.

 

[seavixen32]

Have a look at this tutorial, which explains how to get into the Recovery Environment with a repair disc.

You need to look at Option 2.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/668-system-recovery-options.html

The important thing to remember is that you need to insert your repair disc, restart your computer, and then boot into the disc you just inserted.

 

[Bazingle]

I do all that and then when It comes to choosing my keyboard language, After I click English nothing happens.

 

[Bazingle]

Anyone know why I cannot click next?

 

[AddRAM]

Do you have a disk image on another partition on your hard drive.

Have you done the simple startup repair yet from the disc you created ?

 

[Bazingle]

No I don't think so

And about the repair, I'm not sure, how do I start that one?

The one I'm currently doing doesn't let me start it

 

[Kaktussoft]

'Reinstall Windows' - Brings me too 2 Restore options, the first one which Saves all my personal documents Also does nothing then Freezes, the second option which is removes Everything on the hard drive does this; It Brings me to a screen saying this process will take 30 mins to an hour to complete. It has 5 steps, I left
It on for 14 hours and it was still at step 1 looking like no progress had happened.
=> it looks you started factory recovery and tried to reinstall to factory defaults. Now you have a half installed win7. Or at least it failed.

You als tried recovery environment but you didn't tell me at what stage it freezes or what errors it cannot repair.

It's a total mess now I think

 

[Kaktussoft]

I do all that and then when It comes to choosing my keyboard language, After I click English nothing happens.

Are you very sure??? Is your mouse working? Can you see a moving mouse pointer? Try keyboard if click doens't work.

Are there other clickable items there? Try some to see if computer detects the mouse click. please post results

 

[Bazingle]

If its a total mess is there anything I can do?

On Recovery Environment, I click Next to start it and it bring me to a keyboard language selection, I click on English and click next and it just disappears, now when I click next again it just re brings up the keyboard selection, I have managed to get it onto the part where it says select drivers(not sure how) both times I couldn't continue from that because the cursor was a blue spinning circle that stayed that way for hours

 

[Bazingle]

I do all that and then when It comes to choosing my keyboard language, After I click English nothing happens.

Are you very sure??? Is your mouse working? Can you see a moving mouse pointer? Try keyboard if click doens't work.

Are there other clickable items there? Try some to see if computer detects the mouse click. please post results

Yes I can click other things and see the cursor move, no idea what's going on.

 

[FliGi7]

It could also be a physical drive failure or memory issue. You can often go to your hard drive manufacturer's website and download a disk utility as a bootable .iso that you can burn to a cd and boot from to run hard disk diagnostics.

As for checking memory, download and burn this http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/memtest86+-4.20.iso.zip to a CD. Boot from the CD and let it run through the tests 3 times. There should be no errors found.

However, if it is one of the above, it doesn't mean that the Win7 installation won't require a complete reinstall, which it sounds like it does.