My laptop took a mean spill and lost it's LCD screen. I repaired the screen and it began to give me errors. At the moment it's missing a "system32\config\system". I found my Vista recovery disk, it loads the files and shows me a Microsoft loading bar. It passes the bar and stops at a black screen with the arrow cursor on it. Is this supposed to happen? How long do it take for the disk to show me the recovery options?

Shadoweb wrote:

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> My laptop took a mean spill and lost it's LCD screen. I repaired the
> screen and it began to give me errors. At the moment it's missing a
> "system32\config\system". I found my Vista recovery disk, it loads the
> files and shows me a Microsoft loading bar. It passes the bar and stops
> at a black screen with the arrow cursor on it. Is this supposed to
> happen? How long do it take for the disk to show me the recovery
> options?

More than just your LCD screen was damaged. Whether it is the motherboard,
the hard drive, the optical drive or a combination of components is
impossible to say without physically examining the laptop. Either contact
the laptop mftr.'s tech support for repair/replacement or take it to a
competent local computer tech. This will not be someone from a
BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place.

Malke
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