i have a dell inspiron 1420. i've had it for about 1.5 years. i can honestly say i don't treat it very well: i'm a highschool student that procrastinates a lot so every late night i have is a late night for my laptop too.
today i tried turning on my laptop, however, it got me to a black screen with grey text telling me: windows recovery error. it's saying stuff like windows failed to start, and it's asking whether i should launch startup repair or start windows normally. when i launch startup repair, it tells me the problem cannot be solved and just restarts my computer. when i try starting normally, it goes to the black loading screen and then the screen just goes black and stays black. sometimes i get the occasional blue screen of death when i try the startup repair. it says:
stop: c0000218 {registry file failure}
the registry cannot load the hive (file):
\systemroot\system32\config\DEFAULT
or its log or alternate.
it is corrupt, absent, or not writable.
i tried rebooting it with my dell windows vista cd, and it lets me install vista except if i do i will lose all my files which i do not want to do. if someone could please help me that would be great!! thanks!!
today i tried turning on my laptop, however, it got me to a black screen with grey text telling me: windows recovery error. it's saying stuff like windows failed to start, and it's asking whether i should launch startup repair or start windows normally. when i launch startup repair, it tells me the problem cannot be solved and just restarts my computer. when i try starting normally, it goes to the black loading screen and then the screen just goes black and stays black. sometimes i get the occasional blue screen of death when i try the startup repair. it says:
stop: c0000218 {registry file failure}
the registry cannot load the hive (file):
\systemroot\system32\config\DEFAULT
or its log or alternate.
it is corrupt, absent, or not writable.
i tried rebooting it with my dell windows vista cd, and it lets me install vista except if i do i will lose all my files which i do not want to do. if someone could please help me that would be great!! thanks!!
and the files had to be fixed.. i pressed the button to fix but then when i tried system restore again it said i had no restore points to go back to!