So, my friend's laptop (Sony Vaio VGN-FWsomething), running on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit recently just started to give this error during bootup. The computer started to behave sluggish during internet surfing, and after a restart, this error popped up.
Now, I can get into BIOS just fine, and hard drive is detected, and everything looks fine. I tried putting in the Windows 7 cd, but it hangs for about 10 minutes at the windows 7 loading screen, and then hangs indefinitely (its been about 5 hours so far) on a blank black screen with a moveable mouse pointer. I cannot get into the recovery console or anything.
Googling doesn't give me solutions for this, and wondering if anybody got a fix to this? Since the installation cd can't even get anything to load, it seems like its impossible to reformat the drive? If anybody has any ideas, I want to try not reformatting since there's probably some important files on there to backup first.
Thanks
Now, I can get into BIOS just fine, and hard drive is detected, and everything looks fine. I tried putting in the Windows 7 cd, but it hangs for about 10 minutes at the windows 7 loading screen, and then hangs indefinitely (its been about 5 hours so far) on a blank black screen with a moveable mouse pointer. I cannot get into the recovery console or anything.
Googling doesn't give me solutions for this, and wondering if anybody got a fix to this? Since the installation cd can't even get anything to load, it seems like its impossible to reformat the drive? If anybody has any ideas, I want to try not reformatting since there's probably some important files on there to backup first.
Thanks