I don't know if Asus gives you a bootable Vista DVD that let's you get to the RECOVERY CONSOLE. All apologies in advance as I don't duplicate the web about the RECOVERY CONSOLE but I did recover one (and more) such errors by booting the full Retail Vista DVD, heading to the RECOVERY CONSOLE and CHKDSK'ing drive C and the other drives.
Tell more about those restore DVDs.
Bob
I have no idea how this happened, but my brother's laptop (Asus K50IJ) boots up and before the login screen it says "Installing Update 3 of 3: 0%". It shows that for about 30 seconds, then restarts. Occasionally it goes to the login screen, then still restarts and does the same.
I've tried booting it in safe mode to no avail, and even popped in the Recovery DVD and still the same. I have no idea where to go next.

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