I have VISTA 32. Last night I opened up my computer and everything came up ok, but I couldn't connect with the internet. After a few attempts to re-connect I gave up and shut the computer. I think I may have still been in the area where you look for wireless connections. The next time I opened up my computer it was in some sort of diagnostic mode and I can't seem to get it out. I have a screen come up that says choose a LANGUAGE and then when I select US and "next" it takes me to the System Recovery Options screen. I select Startup Repair and only get a message saying "Startup Repair could not detect a problem." I've tried the System Restore, but can't get anywhere with that option because it says I have not set up a restore POINT. And unfortunately I didn't create a back-up "restore" DVD when I had the chance, so that option is not available either.

I went to the MSDOS command prompt and it appears to have the default DRIVE set as "X". I ran the "dir" command and see I still have over 700 files in the "X" drive and also a number of files in the "C" drive. I'm not able to switch over to the "C" drive to try to give a command to get back to Windows thru MSDos.

Is there a shortcut or hotkey or something that I can do to get back into Windows? I'm just about beating my head against the WALL. I know my stuff is still there I just can't get out of diagnostic mode.

Any wisdom anyone has to offer on this would be greatly appreciated. when its booting up watch very carefully and post any prompts of messages hereWhen it's first coming on the Acer icon comes up with the blue screen and down in the bottom left corner it says "Press to go to Setup". It only flashes for a moment then it's replaced by the message "Prepare Boot to OS".are you saying it goes in diagnostic mode does its thing
then reboots and goes to diagnostic mode?Once you see the message saying "Prepare Boot to OS" it appears to be opening Windows, but it goes directly into diagnostic mode. The only option is to re-start or try one of the repair options. I've tried every option but it seems to be stuck in diagnostic mode.