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F8 not showing "Advanced Boot Options" on a Windows 7 PC
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Background I'm working on dis-infecting a Windows 7 PC where the user opened a ZIP email attachment. All the symptoms exactly match this description of the "Data Recovery" scareware, including these messages: Windows detected a hard disk problem A potential disk failure may coss loss of files, appl…
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Fix for: F8 not showing "Advanced Boot Options" on a Windows 7 PC
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I think I've found the answer: this YouTube video says that on some computers, F8 brings up the "Select boot device" menu that I described above, and if that happens, to hit Esc then keep hitting F8 until the Advanced Boot Options screen appears. I'…
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