Hi All. My grand daughter's Dell laptop is failing to start and is asking for installation disk, which we don't have, to do a repair. However, the following should be noted - the laptop was repaired (faulty HDD, DVD player, power supply connector etc) and a new version of Vista installed by local repairman. I therefore think that the Dell Recovery partition, if there was one, doesn't exist, hence we need the disk. The repairman will not loan me the disk, wants to charge quite a lot to come and 'repair' or reinstall Vista.
The windows boot manager screen lists the following:
File: \windows\system32\config\system
Status: 0x000014c
Info: Windows failed to load because the system registry file is missing or corrupt.
My options appear to be: buy new Vista disk (if still available), beg/borrow/steal(?) disk OR ........... any suggestions welcome
Have downloaded vista recovery iso file from the net and have resolved issue
The windows boot manager screen lists the following:
File: \windows\system32\config\system
Status: 0x000014c
Info: Windows failed to load because the system registry file is missing or corrupt.
My options appear to be: buy new Vista disk (if still available), beg/borrow/steal(?) disk OR ........... any suggestions welcome
Have downloaded vista recovery iso file from the net and have resolved issue
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