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Acer 5920G. Startup probs.'Windows error recovery' msg.

Brandybutter

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Sep 14, 2013
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After switching on, 'Windows error recovery' msg appears. BUT 'Launch startup repair' won't activate, and 'Start windows normally' shows timebar, but will not move on.
 
I would suspect a problem with your hard drive here - you should be able to run Seatools for DOS http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/seatools-dos-master/ to run a diagnostics on your hard drive.
 


 
You would need to download the program, extract it and copy it on to CD to run on your machine - the machine you're sending this from should be able to do that (unless it's a phone)