So, let me preface this by saying that I can be a complete moron when it comes to certain things. Computer hardware is certainly one of those aforementioned things. Anyway...
A couple of days ago, I was putting the finishing touches on some paperwork on my laptop and the keys were feeling pretty grungy so I decided to clean the keyboard. I used a paper towel with an extremely small amount of warm water on it and wiped it clean. I've done it this way plenty of times before and had no issues in the past.
Anyway, I waited an hour or so and turned it back on and when I got to the windows home screen to type in my password, half of the keys on my keyboard wouldn't work, including the ones required for my password. I tried to restart several times to no avail. The keys just wouldn't work.
I googled something about using canned air to get moisture out of a laptop. I happen to have an air compressor in my garage so I went out there and set it on low (about the same psi as canned air) and hit the laptop with canned air everywhere where there was a vent hole, underneath the keys, etc.
I went back in, popped the battery back on and went to fire it up and now all I'm getting is the recovery screen. I cannot access windows at all. When I X out of the recovery screen, my only options are to either Shutdown or Restart. Now, I don't want to lose any of my data on there, so doing a full recovery is NOT ideal for me. It's been two days and I've tried to boot it up 40-50 times and it goes straight to the recovery screen and I cannot access windows at all.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
The laptop is a Samsung RV511 if that means anything.
A couple of days ago, I was putting the finishing touches on some paperwork on my laptop and the keys were feeling pretty grungy so I decided to clean the keyboard. I used a paper towel with an extremely small amount of warm water on it and wiped it clean. I've done it this way plenty of times before and had no issues in the past.
Anyway, I waited an hour or so and turned it back on and when I got to the windows home screen to type in my password, half of the keys on my keyboard wouldn't work, including the ones required for my password. I tried to restart several times to no avail. The keys just wouldn't work.
I googled something about using canned air to get moisture out of a laptop. I happen to have an air compressor in my garage so I went out there and set it on low (about the same psi as canned air) and hit the laptop with canned air everywhere where there was a vent hole, underneath the keys, etc.
I went back in, popped the battery back on and went to fire it up and now all I'm getting is the recovery screen. I cannot access windows at all. When I X out of the recovery screen, my only options are to either Shutdown or Restart. Now, I don't want to lose any of my data on there, so doing a full recovery is NOT ideal for me. It's been two days and I've tried to boot it up 40-50 times and it goes straight to the recovery screen and I cannot access windows at all.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
The laptop is a Samsung RV511 if that means anything.
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