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Dell laptop wont boot up

by t_hurt Nov 15, 2010 9:32AM PST

Dell Studio 1555 - windows 7 - won't boot up, I'm getting the Dell screen with the blue bar at bottom about 2/3 complete. Tried F8, F2 with no success.

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Now you have choices to make.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Nov 16, 2010 12:24AM PST

Most of us will want to get our files out if we forgot a few since our last backup. It sounds like you could boot a LIVE CD called UBUNTU to get at the files (no install, no learning Linux!)

Next you can boot up your restore media from Dell and try that. A call to Dell usually has you do that.

Bob

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