-- Posted by Anonymous at 2:46 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 usually take? 12+ hours?   -- Posted by The Bartender at 2:47 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 like 5 minutes. -- Posted by TBMP at 2:47 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 depends on the system -- Posted by hivemind at 2:47 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 a system restore only take like 3 minutes. -- Posted by marshmellowman at 2:48 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 A system restore is usually quite short because it's not that intensive, just restoring some system stuff. 12 hours is wayyy too long. You might want to think about force-shutting down your computer and turning it on, though it might make Windows unbootable. Have you made backups of your computer? -- Posted by heart ache at 2:48 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 3 hours or so? -- Posted by hellokittygirlx at 2:49 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 A few minutes for me, not 12 hours :O -- Posted by Anonymous at 2:49 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 Quote: from richiewalker at 5:47 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 like 5 minutes. I am doing it wrong then? Why would I take so long on my laptop? I mean I inserted the two dvd's. Then it turns itself on and off multiple times, and then ... I get frustrated and I insert the dvd's again. Right now it's doing a "Sytem recovery" WHY MEEEEE   -- Posted by Anonymous at 2:51 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 Quote: from marshmellowman at 5:48 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 A system restore is usually quite short because it's not that intensive, just restoring some system stuff. 12 hours is wayyy too long. You might want to think about force-shutting down your computer and turning it on, though it might make Windows unbootable. Have you made backups of your computer? Mine aren't short AT ALL. I have to do it from the DVD's. :/ FORCE SHUTTING? What's that. What is unbootable? I haven't made any back ups. as you see I'm a -0 in the computer area. -- Posted by Anonymous at 2:53 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 RIGHT NOW IT'S DOING A SOFTWARE INSTALLATION AND IT HAS LIKE TWO BARS THAT NEED TO LIKE GET COMPLETED BUT THEY NEVER DO. THE COMPUTER JUST TURNS ITSELF ON AND OFF A LOT OF TIMES AND THEN IT GOES CRAZY AND OPENS A FBI THING OMG i'm using caps to show my frustrations u guys -- Posted by marshmellowman at 2:54 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 Uhhh, I don't see why you'd need the dvds. A system restore won't require that. Perhaps you did something else like restore the computer from its original backup discs, erasing everything else. But you shouldn't ever remove and insert the discs again when it's working. I guess all you can do is turn it off and start it up, hoping it hasn't erased all your stuff. -- Posted by Precarious at 2:57 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 12 hrs? whoa it shouldnt take more than 10 min -- Posted by Anonymous at 2:58 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 Quote: from marshmellowman at 5:54 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 Uhhh, I don't see why you'd need the dvds. A system restore won't require that. Perhaps you did something else like restore the computer from its original backup discs, erasing everything else. But you shouldn't ever remove and insert the discs again when it's working. I guess all you can do is turn it off and start it up, hoping it hasn't erased all your stuff. My system restore wouldn't work so I had to get the company to send the DVD'S. I don't care about my files a lot; as long as my computer works again. I had to do it because it wasn't working. I mean I do love my files but if I had to choose between them and having a working laptopt. I'm using vista btw. I didn't remove the cd's until they told to. Now it's doing what I posted on the two previous post and that will make it turn on and off a million times. IDK WHAT TO DO. I want my baby back.   -- Posted by marshmellowman at 3:16 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 Hmm, it was probably restoring the computer from the original discs so it would have presumably wiped everything anyway. Your best bet is to turn it off and try the whole process again (though first you might want to see if Windows boots up at all). -- Posted by Anonymous at 3:28 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 I FUCKING HATE COMPUTER AND ALL PEW PEW PEWWWW -- Posted by obvious child at 7:00 pm on Jan. 2, 2009 *sigh* Alright. Reinstall windows. And then since you're apparently prone to this kind of ****, ghost your system once it's running. You can do this freely though www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm. Then when you have another problem in the future you can simply go back to a state when your computer worked.