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    Accidentally pressing F10 while system is loading...

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by xvszero, Apr 11, 2008.

  1. xvszero

    xvszero Newbie

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    Does this basically F you forever?

    My brother was trying to get into safe mode and pressed F10 which brought up system recovery. It wouldn't let him exit so he just powered down, but now every time he tries to turn on his computer it will say drives not found, etc. and he can't get anywhere.

    I think maybe it just wiped a bunch of stuff, but I don't know.

    Anyone know if there is a way for him to get things working again? Preferably without losing his hard drive data?
     
    xvszero, Apr 11, 2008
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  2. DuckRyder

    DuckRyder Notebook Geek

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    There are quite a few screens after "F10" with various menus and a big warning that "if you continue all data on the hard drive will be erased".

    So yeah, if he clicked "I understand" then powered it off while it was doing its thing... :eek:
     
    DuckRyder, Apr 11, 2008
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  3. scottyinco

    scottyinco Notebook Evangelist

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    doing that should not have made "drive not found". "drive not found" is a hardware error. if it started reformatting, you'd get something about a bootloader or nt something or other not found. first boot into the bios and see if it sees the hard drive. then try doing F10 again and see if you can do a system restore. it really sounds like he went a little further than just the opening screen.
     
    scottyinco, Apr 11, 2008
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