Yes i would not despair yet Saqib. I have an old lap top. My sister-in-law did not know what was in my rock sack and dropped it from the car. I just moaned and said 'There goes my lap top'! What a shock for her. Now it did go wankie after that but I just reformatted the hard drive and installed everything again and it is up and running, slow mind but I think it was slow anyway by nature of being about 7 years old and myh other computers being so much faster I now see this one as so slow. Very disappointing though and my sympathy on this one. Will be pleased to hear how you resolve it. Eleanor ----- Original Message ----- From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 5:57 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: NC10 Hi Saqib. It may not necessarily be the end of the world for the netbook. If you can find someone who can open the case for you and replace the hard drive, you could be up and running using the recovery disks you got with the machine. The only other option would be to attempt a complete reformat of the machine, if you use the recovery disk then this will be done as part of the setup process. All the best, Ibrahim. ----- Original Message ----- From: Saqib To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 5:33 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: NC10 Hi. When I try to get in to safe mode. The netbook just goes through a loop and restarts. Sounds like a hard disk problem to me. I took it into PC World today and they said that there is nothing that they could do as I'm not covered for accidental damage. The other thing is that they would of charged £30 to recover the machine. If there is damage to the disk then there is no way of recovering the hard disk. So I decided not to risk throwing £30 away. Sorry the machine is no more use than a paper weight now. From: James & Nash Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 1:21 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: NC10 Hi Saqib, While I cannot help directly with your NC10 problem, you may be able to use Safe Mode unassisted by running the open source and free NVDA Screen Reader. I have heard that it might be possible to use in Safe Mode with a USB headset. Take care James, Lyn, Nash and Twinny ----- Original Message ----- From: Saqib To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 11:13 AM Subject: [access-uk] NC10 Hi all. My NC10 netbook is playing up for some reason. Every time I try to boot it up it brings up an list of options. They are options relating to safe mode or starting Windows as normal. When I select any of these options the process just goes around in a loop and the netbook just reboots and I get the same screen with those options. I selected start windows as normal and when the XP logo appears on the screen the machine will then reboot its self. The machine did take a fall yesterday as it fell off my sofa arm and this problem accured. I went to shut it down and got up and nearly tripped over the wire and the netbook flew off the arm of the sofa. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1657 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message