Laptop won't boot up

My daughter's Advent 7088 took a routine Windows XP upgrade a few days
ago and since then won't start up.

We get the option to start in safe mode or to go back to last good
configuration but that makes no difference.

It then proceeds to the Norton Go Back progress bar and we've tried
with that to "go back" but to no avail.

It then goes to XP progress bar for a few seconds and then just hangs.

Any suggestions?




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Ian Ashwood

Greetings:

I suggest you do a repair installation ,the below mentioned symptoms are
strongly reffering to corrupted installation ,check the following website
for details:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Best regards


"Ian Ashwood" <Ian.Ashwood.1cf9ebb@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
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>
> My daughter's Advent 7088 took a routine Windows XP upgrade a few days
> ago and since then won't start up.
>
> We get the option to start in safe mode or to go back to last good
> configuration but that makes no difference.
>
> It then proceeds to the Norton Go Back progress bar and we've tried
> with that to "go back" but to no avail.
>
> It then goes to XP progress bar for a few seconds and then just hangs.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ian Ashwood
>

"Ian Ashwood" <Ian.Ashwood.1cf9ebb@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
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>
> My daughter's Advent 7088 took a routine Windows XP upgrade a few days
> ago and since then won't start up.
>
> We get the option to start in safe mode or to go back to last good
> configuration but that makes no difference.
>
> It then proceeds to the Norton Go Back progress bar and we've tried
> with that to "go back" but to no avail.
>
> It then goes to XP progress bar for a few seconds and then just hangs.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ian Ashwood

How to start the System Restore tool at a command prompt in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304449/

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How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

"Ian Ashwood" wrote:

>
> My daughter's Advent 7088 took a routine Windows XP upgrade a few days
> ago and since then won't start up.
>
> We get the option to start in safe mode or to go back to last good
> configuration but that makes no difference.
>
> It then proceeds to the Norton Go Back progress bar and we've tried
> with that to "go back" but to no avail.
>
> It then goes to XP progress bar for a few seconds and then just hangs.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ian Ashwood


Try the upgrade gain, it may be the first upgrade wasn't successful!.
HTH.
nass

"Ian Ashwood" wrote:

>
> My daughter's Advent 7088 took a routine Windows XP upgrade a few days
> ago and since then won't start up.
>
> We get the option to start in safe mode or to go back to last good
> configuration but that makes no difference.
>
> It then proceeds to the Norton Go Back progress bar and we've tried
> with that to "go back" but to no avail.
>
> It then goes to XP progress bar for a few seconds and then just hangs.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ian Ashwood

Forget to tell, is the Laptop hardware compatible with the upgrade?.

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316941

Can you do that in Safe Mode?


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Gerry
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Stourport, England
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nass wrote:
> "Ian Ashwood" wrote:
>
>>
>> My daughter's Advent 7088 took a routine Windows XP upgrade a few
>> days ago and since then won't start up.
>>
>> We get the option to start in safe mode or to go back to last good
>> configuration but that makes no difference.
>>
>> It then proceeds to the Norton Go Back progress bar and we've tried
>> with that to "go back" but to no avail.
>>
>> It then goes to XP progress bar for a few seconds and then just
>> hangs.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ian Ashwood
>
>
> Try the upgrade gain, it may be the first upgrade wasn't successful!.
> HTH.
> nass

WinXp Update, not upgrade
Since its an Advent it will likely have a recovery cd only

"nass" <nass@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Ian Ashwood" wrote:
>
>>
>> My daughter's Advent 7088 took a routine Windows XP upgrade a few days
>> ago and since then won't start up.
>>
>> We get the option to start in safe mode or to go back to last good
>> configuration but that makes no difference.
>>
>> It then proceeds to the Norton Go Back progress bar and we've tried
>> with that to "go back" but to no avail.
>>
>> It then goes to XP progress bar for a few seconds and then just hangs.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ian Ashwood
>
> Forget to tell, is the Laptop hardware compatible with the upgrade?.
>
> How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316941
>
>

For some reason I accepted the option to de-install Norton Go Back and
was then able to reboot successfully. I've now reinstalled Go Back and
all is still ok.

Thanks for all suggestions.

"Ian Ashwood" wrote:
-

My daughter's Advent 7088 took a routine Windows XP upgrade a few
days
ago and since then won't start up.

We get the option to start in safe mode or to go back to last good
configuration but that makes no difference.

It then proceeds to the Norton Go Back progress bar and we've tried
with that to "go back" but to no avail.

It then goes to XP progress bar for a few seconds and then just
hangs.

Any suggestions?




--
Ian Ashwood-

Forget to tell, is the Laptop hardware compatible with the upgrade?.

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316941

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--
Ian Ashwood

As you`ve reinstalled GoBack , it might hang again . If you need it
for system restore , try using ERUNT system instead .


On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:18:35 +0000, Ian Ashwood
<Ian.Ashwood.1d16eca@pcbanter.net> wrote:

>
>For some reason I accepted the option to de-install Norton Go Back and
>was then able to reboot successfully. I've now reinstalled Go Back and
>all is still ok.
>
>Thanks for all suggestions.
>
>"Ian Ashwood" wrote:
>-
>
>My daughter's Advent 7088 took a routine Windows XP upgrade a few
>days
>ago and since then won't start up.
>
>We get the option to start in safe mode or to go back to last good
>configuration but that makes no difference.
>
>It then proceeds to the Norton Go Back progress bar and we've tried
>with that to "go back" but to no avail.
>
>It then goes to XP progress bar for a few seconds and then just
>hangs.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>
>
>
>--
>Ian Ashwood-
>
>Forget to tell, is the Laptop hardware compatible with the upgrade?.
>
>How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316941
>
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