While restarting the notebook, tap F8 every other second until you
hopefully can still enter the recovery management screen. From there
just follow the on screen instructions to do a factory restore.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

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OS Name Microsoft® Windows VistaT Home Premium
Version 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2 Build 6002
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name NOEL-PC
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model HP Pavilion dv6700 Notebook PC
System Type X86-based PC
Processor AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60, 2000 Mhz, 2 Core(s),
2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard F.2A, 2/22/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6002.18005"
User Name Noel-PC\Noel
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 3.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 2.94 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.72 GB
Total Virtual Memory 6.10 GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.09 GB
Page File Space 3.23 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

mine still works like new and i had it over a year now