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jtrent238 Bo
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I installed Reactos in a vm and it worked fine, but when it instaleed in on my laptop it just stop at the boot screen

Model CQ62-210US
LuxenDM
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Post by LuxenDM »

ReactOS is still in heavy development - not all that much real hardware is supported yet. If your system is unsupported, just keep using your usual OS for now.
jtrent238 Bo
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I cant get the computer to turn on now

It just comes up the the Logo screen of the computer manufactor
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Post by dizt3mp3r »

Lets hope you haven't screwed up your laptop partitions or boot sectors.
I'm really hoping you installed on an old machine and NOT your main device...

You should have read the installation instructions before you installed on real hardware. Reading instructions are ESSENTIAL before you install an o/s especially an alpha-grade o/s.
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If you have access to the internet from another computer, then I suggest that you down load hiren's bootcd or from here. Hopefully, you should be able to boot the cd and use some of the very useful apps; like Testdisk which can recover lost partitions and restore them, also there are apps to check your mbr.

I hope that you get your computer booting again!
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jtrent238 Bo wrote:I installed Reactos in a vm and it worked fine, but when it instaleed in on my laptop it just stop at the boot screen

Model CQ62-210US
Is that a Compaq computer? And do you have the rescue discs that came with it? If you can't get it to boot, you may need to wipe the drive and reinstall your OS from scratch. Which would really suck, but should fix any disk partition issues.
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jtrent238 Bo wrote:I cant get the computer to turn on now
It just comes up the the Logo screen of the computer manufacturer
I suggest that you go into the BIOS setup and disable the splash screen, then you should be able to see why the computer is not booting.

Please report back here if you do decide to follow my suggestion and tell us what the screen says. Someone here, hopefully, should be able to help you!
Please keep the Windows classic 9x/2000 look and feel.
The layman's guides - debugging - bug reporting - compiling - ISO remaster.
They may help you with a problem, so do have a look at them.
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