OK so my friend tossed me her laptop that will not start. It's Win 7 and runs the startup repair unsuccesfully. It doesn't start up in safe mode any better and a memory check showed no errors. She is sure I can fix it for her. Meh, yea right.
So I guess I can put a recover type software on an USB stick and boot from that.
What trips me up is that I run Win XP and I'm not even sure I can make an ISO to USB stick even, and if I can I'm still confused about the issues the different operative systems cause.
Anyone care to make my mind a bit clearer in this pursuit?