Laptop Reboot Itself - Vista Starts Shutting Down

Replies: 2 | Post Date: 2 months ago | User: Gimmeans... | Forums: answers.yahoo.com
I have valuable pictures and videos on my compaq laptop and now it wont turn on! Its starts to boot windows vista home basic and it even goes to the advanced boot options page, but no matter what i pick from the menu it goes to start up and right as windows vista starts booting it says "shutting down"! After that is just keeps making the start up jingle and it keeps attempting to reboot in its own, i dont know what else to do but i have lost so much sleep over this because this computer has very priceless pictures and videos on it. I have a new laptop now and i want to throw this one away i just want my pictures!

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