kayfabian

yes. When i put in the windows 7 disk or the vista disk, it will load to the splash screen and stay there for about 5 minutes, then go to the white pointer screen. acfter sitting on the white pointer screen for about 10 min it gives em the blue screen with "unmountable vol" and restarts.

the laptop is currently running Vista, and everything i find is for xp. I have the bios set now for cd/dvd. When I put 7 in OR another copy of vista it still just bring me to the screen. I have no problem formatting the hdd and putting in a clean copy of vista or 7 at this point. Even that it wont let me do. is there a way to format the hdd from the bios?

It brings me to the windows recovery error screen that then gives me the option to choose safe mode, safe mode with net, start windows normally and last know. Ive tried all of them at least once and and they all result in the same thing "black screen with mouse pointer" what am i looking to download from bootdisk?

From what I'm seeing after giving it more time to load is an "unmountable boot error". Ive downloaded some boot disk, but that still isnt working. Safe mode doesn't work. boot disk doesn't work. Ive downloaded the boot disk from neosmart, and when i put the boot disk in it just sits at a cursor. I can get into bios but thats really it.

I'm trying to fix my laptop which is running Vista. It loads to the black screen with the white arrow on it, but no further. If i wait a very long time it'll eventually bring em to the blue screen. I've tried everything from a recovery disc, safe mode, reloading vista and now finally trying to just install my copy of 7. I have nothing on the laptop so i just want a clean install. I can't even get that now. I put the copy of windows in, boot from the dvd and it eventually brings up the black screen again. Any ideas?