Ok, well yesterday night whilst I was on MSN Messenger.. and suddenly the internet stopped working although Windows Vista said it was online.... so I tried opening Windows Media Player to listen to some music from my library and I got an error message saying "wmplayer.exe not FOUND" followed by various messages saying that "explorer.exe" not found and others which I cannot remember.... So I thought best thing to do would be restarting the computer.. as soon as I clicked on restart I got a message saying "SystemUI.exe not found" followed by a blue screen... Now each time I boot before I even have a chance to press F8 it tells me Boot\BCD not found and restarts.... constantly.

I can assume the OS has been destroyed but I suspect my personal files are still there so I tried CREATING a bootable version of Windows XP on my UFD using BartPE on annother computer.... although my BIOS is configured properly and I follow all steps completely the computer refuses to boot the UFD....

Windows Repair is not an option as my DVD-RW drive is bust and IT IS a laptop... I got an external DVD-RW but I have it in my other house in annother country.

Annother problem is the fact that I cannot get it repaired in any shop due to the high costs of the service (all wanted €200 or more) which I cannot afford....


Any help please??


Extra Info:
OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic
Antivirus: AVG Free + AVG AntiRootkit
AntiSpyware: Windows Deffender + AVG AntiSpyware
Firewall: Windows Firewall
RAM: 1024 (128 Graphics) CPU: AMD Turion 64 X2 (1.6GHz)
HDD: 100GB GFX: nVidea GeForce Go! 6150Did you try using the floppy you made on another good machine? If it works on a good 'puter then you really have no other option than replacing the broke DVD-R/W-do you?
What is it you want to accomplish here...
Retrieve your data ?
Repair install so you can use the machine ?
A clean start ?Quote from: patio on July 16, 2007, 07:51:46 PM

What is it you want to accomplish here...
Retrieve your data ?
Repair install so you can use the machine ?
A clean start ?

I would hook up that drive as a slave in a working machine...run a virus scan on the drive, actually all your protection apps...you have a well balanced arsenal there BTW.

Then copy/burn the data you need from that HDD and do a full format on it.

It should then be clean enough for a clean install.

p,s. You may want to add AdAware and Spybot to your package...

p.s.s. Before copying /using any of that data on the new build re-scan the CD just in case.

Then grab one of these...



About 10 bucks at any computer store...lets you connect a laptop HDD to any desktop machine with an available IDE connection.

Handy for quicker backups as well.