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recovery disk wont boot from cd

Started by kvn4 , Oct 24 2010 12:25 PM

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#1 kvn4

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Posted 24 October 2010 - 12:25 PM

have a gateway lx6810-01 pc,running vista home premium. my son changed admin password and has forgotten it so im trying to reinstall from recovery disk. i put optical drive as first boot but cumputer wont book from it,anyone have any thoughts to how i can do get it to work. installed a nvidia geforce 9500gt awhile ago(shutting down as with alot of complaints about this pc, there was a sticker causing the problem.)so need instructions as to do this repair if anyone has any ideas. thank you k

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#2 Broni

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Posted 24 October 2010 - 01:29 PM

Create any other bootable CD, like UBCD4Win: http://www.ubcd4win.com/index.htm and see, if it'll boot.
That will tell you, if you have CD drive problem, or your recovery CD problem.

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#3 kvn4

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Posted 25 October 2010 - 10:57 AM

trinity rescue disk,opcrack both boot ive changed order and recovery does nothing.after logging on it shows indvd drive. i used 2 sets,and system disk.still nothing

Edited by kvn4, 25 October 2010 - 11:35 AM.

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Posted 25 October 2010 - 07:33 PM

Bad disk, I'd assume. Call Gateway for replacement.

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#5 kvn4

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Posted 27 October 2010 - 06:14 AM

didnt need to . found out pressing alt 10 repeatedly gets to factory reinstall. did it ,it worked. thanks for all your help k

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Posted 27 October 2010 - 06:54 PM

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#7 snowghost

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Posted 01 November 2010 - 06:03 PM

Good to know, I have the same pc and the 2 disk recovery set, to date I have not found a way to get them to do any thing but set in the rack, I feel like I getting close to a formatt and reinstall.
This was my first gateway and it will be my lats, gteway don't even exist any more excpect a sticker on a box, it's all acer now, and good luck getting any help there

I ausoume you are meaning alt F10

Edited by snowghost, 01 November 2010 - 06:27 PM.