As of late last night, the Windows 7 installation (64-bit) on my Lenovo ThinkPad T420i will not start. While I know that this has an upside, I was planning to do some Windows-based training with a development environment to play with. I also have a legit MS Office installed there, with the receipt somewhere. I run Linux Mint 14 on a second partition. There seems to be a noisy fan problem as well, but that's not my immediate concern.
I've restarted and restarted, tried safe mode and all that. At most I get the 'recovery' options, or Windows loading in safe mode to the point where there is a disembodied mouse pointer but nothing else. When I closed the laptop in order to move it with everything else, it was either at the Windows login screen, in the process of loading Windows, or already stuck. My thoughts are to do a mass backup of everything I want on the two main partitions (I have an external drive), do the full laptop reset from the third 'recovery' partition, if possible, then do a fresh installation of an updated Mint or something else in a new dual boot setup. I prefer not to have to purchase MS Office again, nor to buy another copy of Windows, for many obvious reasons. I do have another version of Windows 7 on an older, somewhat problematic HP notebook. Thoughts and suggestions? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
