hp/xp pavillion a630n recovery at 18bhrs & still says please wait.....how long? working when turned off. "crashed" while off. Attempted restore. no dates recognized. recovery with backup disc was incomplete.. incompatible for: previously installed antiviral program, hp printers...can't reinstall.
Am attempting to "recover" direct from computer. Already at 18 hrs with the message Please wait. Is this to be expected or am I not going to have a completed recovery. I'm afraid to do anything like restart the computer...Gerri
Is it showing any progress? I had a disk recovery program take 10 days to do the analyze mode.
Systems don't crash after they've been turned off. And please define "crash". You may have taken a simply fixable problem & turned it into a nightmare.
"recovery with backup disc was incomplete.. incompatible for: previously installed antiviral program, hp printers...can't reinstall. "
Can you explain this? was the install from a CD completed and you had problems with
"antiviral program, hp printers...can't reinstall." Or was the install of xp from the cd incomplete and, you were never able to boot to the desktop??larry