topic Startup repair in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.fi/t5/pcs-accessories/startup-repair/m-p/67941#M53714 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>My vaio laptop which uses vista has been unused for 5 months as I have been travelling. On starting it up everything worked perfectly. I use AVG as my virus protection and it needed updating. This seemed to work and I was asked to restart the computer to make the updates current.<BR />It will not restart. The message says that a recent hardware or software change might be the cause.<BR />It offered to launch startup repair but everytime I do this, when I tell it to again I keep getting back to the same error recovery message.<BR />I need help as I am in a loop and the machine will not start.<BR />Any suggestions?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 01 May 2009 14:08:48 GMT rogchris 2009-05-01T14:08:48Z Startup repair https://community.sony.fi/t5/pcs-accessories/startup-repair/m-p/67941#M53714 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>My vaio laptop which uses vista has been unused for 5 months as I have been travelling. On starting it up everything worked perfectly. I use AVG as my virus protection and it needed updating. This seemed to work and I was asked to restart the computer to make the updates current.<BR />It will not restart. The message says that a recent hardware or software change might be the cause.<BR />It offered to launch startup repair but everytime I do this, when I tell it to again I keep getting back to the same error recovery message.<BR />I need help as I am in a loop and the machine will not start.<BR />Any suggestions?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 01 May 2009 14:08:48 GMT https://community.sony.fi/t5/pcs-accessories/startup-repair/m-p/67941#M53714 rogchris 2009-05-01T14:08:48Z Re: Startup repair https://community.sony.fi/t5/pcs-accessories/startup-repair/m-p/67943#M53715 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi rogchris and welcome.<BR /><BR />What is the exact error message?<BR /><BR />What model do you have?<BR /><BR />Do you have important data on the Vaio and need to recover it or can you allow a reformat?<BR /><BR />Did you make recovery discs?<BR /><BR />Are you using the original Operating System?<BR /><BR /> <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.fi/html/@13A2E6A3774A8B47B4EC6F04089539E1/images/smilies/063.png" alt=":thinking:" title=":thinking:" /><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 01 May 2009 20:14:57 GMT https://community.sony.fi/t5/pcs-accessories/startup-repair/m-p/67943#M53715 Blencogo 2009-05-01T20:14:57Z