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8/27/2007 7:44:20 AM EDT
My lap top took a huge dump on me and I say, no problem, I'll just pop the recovery disk in and drive on, right? wrong.

I pop the recovery disk in and the screen tells me if I really, really want to lose all my information and I dutifully hit F1 (yes).

The screen then asks me if I really, really want to continue or abort so I  hit C (continue).

Cool, it's doing its thing.

Except, I keep getting the same screens popping up and i continually hit F1 and C over and over again.  I call tech support (who tell me my years' worth of warranty just expired) and they tell me to buy a new recovery disc.  Which I do.  And it does the same damn thing.

BTW, the file that seems to be missing/corrupted/FUBAR is a .dll file windows/32/ something or other.

Any ideas where to go from here?
8/27/2007 9:22:20 AM EDT
[#1]
Data recovery isn't the issue, I keep all my important files on two USB drives, so that's no biggie.  I just need my laptop to boot up windows XP so I can use the daigned thing!

I don't care if it reformats my hard drive and leaves me with the computer the way it was when I bought it--this would be preferable to the vegetative state it is now in!
8/27/2007 9:41:54 AM EDT
[#2]
find out what brand harddrive thats in the machine.  might tell you in the bios.  

or you might have to slide the drive out.  while the machine is off.


well run a hd test on it
8/27/2007 11:53:35 AM EDT
[#3]
Format the hard drive, boot with floppy, create a folder, copy disc to hard drive, look for the setup files for windows, run setup, Boot sector on drive wont over write.