OS not starting up after blue screen..

And those options aren't ideal....

First, recover what you can from the hard drive.. (Recent backups of the important files should relieve you of this pariticular task though.)

Once that's done....

You'll need to use Recovery Discs to attempt a full reformat and reinstall of everything back to its original state.

If that doesn't work, and because your symptoms may be related to a failed hard drive, then you'll need to replace the hard drive and perform a full reinstall of everything back to its original state.

Hope this helps.

Grif

I cannot help you with anything else that you haven't already tried, but I believe I could you with your installation to make that much easier and painfree.

First, you should have a good backup program and use it. Then when this happens that you cannot startup your laptop like this, you could easily do a recovery.

After you have followed Griff's suggestions to format the hard drive, check with your manufacturer's website, by clicking on "Support", and then "Download Drivers and Manuals" and then read the manual for your laptop for "Recovery". There should be a "magic key" or key combination to press at startup to bring it back to factory settings.

You didn't tell what kind of system you have, so I can't look it up for you. However, on my Acer Aspire 5739G, it is Alt + F10; on my son's ASUS laptop, it is F9; and on a lady's Compaq that I just helped her with, it was F11.

If you can find out what your "magic key" is, that will not only install Windows, but it would bring the laptop back to exactly the way it was when you brought it out of the box--even with all those nuisance programs installed. However, all the drivers would already be installed, so you won't have to go to the manufacturer's website and download them and then install each one individually.

~ Barry

I just had this same problem and figured it out after some trial and error. What I did was make a bootable flash drive using Power ISO with an ISO dump of Windows 7 on it. I then went into the bios and changed the boot sequence to boot to USB drive first. At first this did not work and I could not figure out why so I tried a different USB port on the PC and wallah! It worked. I was able to restore the OS after formatting the hard disk. (Not sure if formatting is necessary or not.) I hope this helps someone.