did you go to compaqs (HP) website, search for your specific model to see if they had win8 drivers? if not, you need to go there to see if they have win8 drivers. If they do not have win8 drivers, you should have never tried to upgrade and you need to go back to the original. I would check but you did not provide the full model number, there are more numbers after the '60
I tried to update my laptop (compaq Presario CQ60) to windows 8 from windows vista. It failed horribly. Then when I reset it, it now comes up with windows boot manager on startup. With only the option of windows vista. Then on startup the keyboard acts out and I can't get safe mode to open on startup because boot manager comes up instead! Ugh! Help!!!

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