The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Aspire 5920g Vista crash after 4 months!

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Avishee, Feb 14, 2008.

  1. Avishee

    Avishee Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    55
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    hey
    I bought my aspire 5920g some 4 months ago, and vista is being a pain and crashed on me... it wont load up.
    when i open it, it gives me the option to start it normally. or repair it... both wont work, and i gave it a few hours of trying before giving up. it blue-screens and says i got some problem, and windows is shutting down to prevent damage to my hardware.

    aaaanyway, i dont have any backup, and i really dont feel like losing all my photos since 2004. (ya ya, im a idiot, i trashed all my back-up cd's some 2 months ago, and planed to burn new ones). so what are my options? is there any way to recover data after the windows have crashed?

    btw, i have an original copy of vista which came with the laptop, but i dont have a Vista CD to make my life easier...

    thnx :)
     
    Avishee, Feb 14, 2008
    #1
  2. krazyphire

    krazyphire Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    104
    Messages:
    290
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    If your harddrive is partitioned you can try dual-booting with another operating system and then pulling all the important pictures/music/documents onto some form of removable storage. Then use your recovery partition to reinstall vista.
     
    krazyphire, Feb 14, 2008
    #2
  3. Avishee

    Avishee Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    55
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    So i need another OS? ok....
    no other way of getting in touch with my files, without using Vista?
    anyway, how to get into my recovery partition to reinstall?
     
    Avishee, Feb 14, 2008
    #3
  4. Patrick Y.

    Patrick Y. Go Newbs! NBR Reviewer

    Reputations:
    123
    Messages:
    1,014
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Get an external HD enclosure
     
    Patrick Y., Feb 14, 2008
    #4
  5. Avishee

    Avishee Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    55
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    can you please elaborate? im a nub in all the things concerning windows, bios, partitions, ect... :(
     
    Avishee, Feb 14, 2008
    #5