cannot restart dirve CD or hard drive

I'm working on a friend's computer, a shitty Compaq Presario CQ60, running Vista. Now the computer cannot start from the CD drive or HD. Each time, computer throws this error window "need to restart the installation. I have access to advanced and tried restart options. He arrived just not at a point where I could reformat or do reinstallaiton. What should I do? really appreciate!

Thanks for reading. A few times, I changed the boot option, but it did not work before. But somehow, miraculously went into the mode of recovery yesterday evening by himself and everything has been reinstalled and fine. Just very very weird. I don't change anything or has nothing. Don't really understand what happened...

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