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Laptop looping before windows starts

  • 19-10-2013 1:25pm
    #1
    SteelyDanJalapeno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,357 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi lads,

    Made a bit of boo boo last night and have been trying to rectify it since,

    My Hard drive died a few weeks back and I reinstalled windows on a new drive and all was fine, unfortunately I have lost my key to activate windows again so I downloaded a 3rd party activator last night.

    The activator restarted my laptop and since then is stuck in a pre boot loop, it looks like it cant see windows or its not being allowed load windows, as its not getting past the Lenovo on screen print out. I can get into GRUB options and from here I have tried some choices, "Windows with SLIC Loader" is default and doesnt work, "Windows without Loader" will allow me to boot into windows and from there I tried a system restore to before installing the Key gen activator with no luck it still loops pre boot.

    Anybody have any ideas? Is it possible to make "Windows without Loader" the default option on boot up? and what implications would this have?


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