Vista Home Will Not Start

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F11 system restore. No luck. safemode nothing...seems like it tries to start
then hear the hd grind for 10 seconds or so then black screen. Any ideas?
 
Did you recently install any new hard-ware in your system?

F11 system restore. No luck. safemode nothing...seems like it tries to start
then hear the hd grind for 10 seconds or so then black screen. Any ideas?
 
Using the installation media,try doing an `in-place upgrade`.

no- actually it went to sleep and never came back....
 
When you say "hear the hd grind" is this a different noise than normal? You
may have a defective hard drive.
 
That grinding noise from the hard drive is very bad news. You may not be
able to get Windows running from it. You need to have the hard drive
checked. If you bought the computer recently, contact the seller for
instructions. With only what you have said I suspect you need to have the
hard drive replaced. I take it that Vista came preinstalled on your
computer so the seller needs to help you get Vista reinstalled using the new
hard drive if indeed it is bad.
 
An in-place-upgrade needs to be run from within the running Vista.
Apparently that is not possible. Also, he may not have the media. His
reference to an F11 key means that he needs to access a recovery partition
and that means that Vista came preinstalled.
 
F11 would not mean a system restore, but most likely a restoration to
factory condition.
 
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