So, I have completely destroyed my computer, I do believe. I just did something so incredibly stupid, I'm still reeling. I wanted to restore factory settings, so I backed everything up to an external hard drive, finally figured out that the recovery drive on my computer was why I didn't have a boot disc, got to the advanced boot menu, ran the factory restore program, and...it didn't move. It stayed at 0% for two hours. I couldn't cancel it, I couldn't stop it. I should have just left it run all night, because it must have just been in the middle of whatever it was doing because, in my stupidity, I restarted the computer. Well, first I got the bootmgr missing warning, I used my repair disc, and fixed that, but when Windows started, the majority of my programs were gone, especially all of the windows programs, and I can't do a thing on it. Firefox is gone as well, Chrome was the only browser left, and I can't download anything on it, when I do, the computer just tells me it can't find the file (though yesterday, when all this happened, I was at least able to download files at first). Is there...anything I can do? If I found someone with a vista restore dvd, would that do me any good? I'll try anything, if anyone knows, thank you for your help.
moved to correct forum as not a pc hardware issue. what is the make & model# of the computer as the recovery should not have taken hours? also how much does it have?
Oh, sorry about that. It's a Gateway M-6750 How much what? Recovery Drive has 11 GB of space which is full, main drive has 61.6 gigs free of 221, 3.00 GB of RAM, and I'm running 32-bit ftr.
Sorry, left that out of my original post, got sidetracked. The option to recover is gone from the advanced boot menu.
