Posts by axewoundv2

Ok, I'm going to be trying this method out. Wish me luckkk. :) Thanks guys. I'll post results once it's finished.

@qhn: Is there some kind of tutorial I can follow or just some basic instructions on how to do this? I'm decently computer savvy but when it comes to things like this I'm timid and afraid of ruining it and not being able to put it back...

Ok I tried the F10 thing and I'm not sure if I did it right but it just took me to the "Windows has recovered from an error should you start windows in safe mode command prompt or start windows normally" thing. Maybe I did it wrong?...

Yes the f10 works for the recovery, but after that then what do I do? And no there are no passwords on it, it just pops up as an error message. I thought it might have been Norton, so I disabled everything on Norton but that didn't...

I'm having some serious troubles with this laptop. It's an HP Pavilion dv2000 CTO Notebook and it's running Windows Vista.   I'm trying to upgrade to Windows 7 so I can just start fresh and clean with this laptop, as it was...