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Old November 2nd, 2010, 03:22 PM
Carol3 Carol3 is offline
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Unhappy Won't Boot, even in safe mode, CD drive broken, plz help
I cannot boot my pc. Will not even boot in safe mode!

laptop, external monitor and CD rom drive has been broken for a while.

I have a system disc but it is in Italian, as we bought the pc in Italy.

Gonna borrow and external CD drive and try to boot from there

any suggestions?
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Old November 2nd, 2010, 04:43 PM
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well drive did recognize the system recovery disc...but it is in Italian...my husband helped some with translation
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Old November 2nd, 2010, 08:16 PM
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Question Used Recover Discs Now my XP is in Italian!
Is there anything I can do to change it bk to English?
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Old November 9th, 2010, 10:57 AM
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Maybe they didn't recognize some system that's why. Try to consult a technician if you have not idea because it's pretty hard to tell you to do this and that when in fact there might be a lot of issues there.
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Old November 10th, 2010, 03:49 AM
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Is there anything I can do to change it bk to English?
Howdy:

The only way to get the English version is to purchase a new install cd. Sorry.

Murray
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