Recent content by craigrs84

I got this figured out. I was able to boot into recovery mode by holding down the shift key and repeatedly pressing F8 while powering on the PC. It is tricky to do and took me about 4 - 5 tries before I finally got it right. In my case, the trick was to press the power button and then...

thanks. We're not concerned about losing data / files. Just want the PC to work again. How do you get into safe mode in Windows 8? I tried a couple different things but haven't been able to get there yet.

My father-in-law has an HP Windows 8 laptop. He tried to run a system restore to restore to an earlier date, but he said it was taking too long so he powered the computer off before the restore was finished. Now Windows 8 will no longer start up and the computer is not usable. When I power on...