F11 system restore. No luck. safemode nothing...seems like it tries to start
then hear the hd grind for 10 seconds or so then black screen. Any ideas?

Did you recently install any new hard-ware in your system?

"Yeller" <Yeller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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F11 system restore. No luck. safemode nothing...seems like it tries to start
then hear the hd grind for 10 seconds or so then black screen. Any ideas?

no- actually it went to sleep and never came back....

"Hiren" wrote:

> Did you recently install any new hard-ware in your system?
>
> "Yeller" <Yeller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C2548FCE-24A5-4D06-922A-3B3266005BD6@microsoft.com...
> F11 system restore. No luck. safemode nothing...seems like it tries to start
> then hear the hd grind for 10 seconds or so then black screen. Any ideas?
>

Using the installation media,try doing an `in-place upgrade`.

"Yeller" <Yeller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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no- actually it went to sleep and never came back....

"Hiren" wrote:

> Did you recently install any new hard-ware in your system?
>
> "Yeller" <Yeller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C2548FCE-24A5-4D06-922A-3B3266005BD6@microsoft.com...
> F11 system restore. No luck. safemode nothing...seems like it tries to
> start
> then hear the hd grind for 10 seconds or so then black screen. Any ideas?
>

When you say "hear the hd grind" is this a different noise than normal? You
may have a defective hard drive.

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/



"Yeller" <Yeller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> F11 system restore. No luck. safemode nothing...seems like it tries to
> start
> then hear the hd grind for 10 seconds or so then black screen. Any ideas?

That grinding noise from the hard drive is very bad news. You may not be
able to get Windows running from it. You need to have the hard drive
checked. If you bought the computer recently, contact the seller for
instructions. With only what you have said I suspect you need to have the
hard drive replaced. I take it that Vista came preinstalled on your
computer so the seller needs to help you get Vista reinstalled using the new
hard drive if indeed it is bad.

"Yeller" <Yeller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> F11 system restore. No luck. safemode nothing...seems like it tries to
> start
> then hear the hd grind for 10 seconds or so then black screen. Any ideas?

An in-place-upgrade needs to be run from within the running Vista.
Apparently that is not possible. Also, he may not have the media. His
reference to an F11 key means that he needs to access a recovery partition
and that means that Vista came preinstalled.

"Hiren" <hirenme********.com> wrote in message
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> Using the installation media,try doing an `in-place upgrade`.
>
> "Yeller" <Yeller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:39F25F9C-D653-469B-A618-AF2CF8FA4E69@microsoft.com...
> no- actually it went to sleep and never came back....
>
> "Hiren" wrote:
>
>> Did you recently install any new hard-ware in your system?
>>
>> "Yeller" <Yeller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:C2548FCE-24A5-4D06-922A-3B3266005BD6@microsoft.com...
>> F11 system restore. No luck. safemode nothing...seems like it tries to
>> start
>> then hear the hd grind for 10 seconds or so then black screen. Any ideas?
>>
>

F11 would not mean a system restore, but most likely a restoration to
factory condition.

"t-4-2" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Yeller;762221 Wrote:
>> no- actually it went to sleep and never came back....
>>
>> "Hiren" wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > Did you recently install any new hard-ware in your system?
>> > >
>> > > "Yeller" <Yeller@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> > > news:C2548FCE-24A5-4D06-922A-3B3266005BD6@xxxxxx
>> > > F11 system restore. No luck. safemode nothing...seems like it tries
>> > to start
>> > > then hear the hd grind for 10 seconds or so then black screen. Any
>> > ideas?
>> > > > >
>
> Hello Yeller,
> Your original post was somewhat confusing. If you could do F11 system
> restore, then how could you have "black screen" in safe mode ? What "no
> luck" means ? It would not run system restore, or it ran but not
> resolved the problem ?
> Can you execute Safe Mode with Prompt ? If yes, type chkdsk /f/r , then
> press Enter. It will take quite some time. Be patient.
> If I have misunderstood , please elaborate.
>
>
> --
> t-4-2