XP come up to a C:> uh oh - details below.

[Guest]

I have an HP Pavilion (775E). I attempted to make the recovery disks today,
because i wanted to rebuild the OS from scratch. It had become very
sluggish and would not shut down properly. The HP comes with a recovery disk
creation utility - and I began the process. The machine crashed sometime
during the creation of the 2nd CD. A reboot, brought it back to the process
and it recognized that it needed to start from the beginning of creating the
2nd disk. All was well. I got through 4 disks and during the creation of the
5th, it crashed again - but when the machine tries to reload, it comes up to
"safe mode" screen. I choose Safe Mode (or frankly any of the other options
and I get the error: "The following file is missing or corrupted:
C:\windows\ifshlp.sys and then the same error, but referring to the file:
C:\windows\system\vmm32.vxd. Next line says "Type the name of the Windows
loader (e.g., C:\Windows\system\vmm32.vxd). Then it give me a C> prompt. And
it will not even give me a directory. I am dead in the water.

What is strange (to me) is these seem to be Windows Millenium edition errors
(I realize Windows has artifacts of earlier editions.

Help... I am in trouble. I do not even have disks to rebuild with (and HP
does not make them available for this machine apparently). The machine was
also bought with several software programs on it (MS Office) and I do not
want to rebuy them.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

I to have an HP Puter. The first thing I did after initial setup was to
create the system restore discs. HP only gives you one shot at it. If you
mess up you are simply out of luck.

I'm not sure how old your machine is, but HP does make these discs available
for sale for my machine. My machine is brand new. You may want to go to the
HP website and see if they offer to sell the discs for your puter.

Sincerely,

Mike

 

[Ricky]

If you start tapping F10 when you first turn on the computer it will give
you access to the recovery partition and you can reformat and install from
there.

 

[q_q_anonymous]

I to have an HP Puter. The first thing I did after initial setup was to
create the system restore discs. HP only gives you one shot at it. If you
mess up you are simply out of luck.

I'm not sure how old your machine is, but HP does make these discs available
for sale for my machine. My machine is brand new. You may want to go to the
HP website and see if they offer to sell the discs for your puter.

Sincerely,

Mike

Either call HP and do it there way. Or Boot off an XP CD, it will let
you delete what you've got, and reinstall windows.

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

I have an HP Pavilion (775E). I attempted to make the recovery disks
today,
because i wanted to rebuild the OS from scratch. It had become very
sluggish and would not shut down properly. The HP comes with a recovery
disk
creation utility - and I began the process. The machine crashed sometime
during the creation of the 2nd CD. A reboot, brought it back to the
process
and it recognized that it needed to start from the beginning of creating
the
2nd disk. All was well. I got through 4 disks and during the creation of
the
5th, it crashed again - but when the machine tries to reload, it comes up
to
"safe mode" screen. I choose Safe Mode (or frankly any of the other
options
and I get the error: "The following file is missing or corrupted:
C:\windows\ifshlp.sys and then the same error, but referring to the file:
C:\windows\system\vmm32.vxd. Next line says "Type the name of the Windows
loader (e.g., C:\Windows\system\vmm32.vxd). Then it give me a C> prompt.
And
it will not even give me a directory. I am dead in the water.

What is strange (to me) is these seem to be Windows Millenium edition
errors
(I realize Windows has artifacts of earlier editions.

Help... I am in trouble. I do not even have disks to rebuild with (and
HP
does not make them available for this machine apparently). The machine
was
also bought with several software programs on it (MS Office) and I do not
want to rebuy them.

Any ideas?

Thanks

You have learned a valuable lesson...You should have made the Restore Set
during initial setup as you were prompted. Now that you have data integrity
problems on your computer, it is most likely too late. You will have to
contact HP and purchase a restore CD set from them for your specific model.

Bobby

 

[q_q_anonymous]

You have learned a valuable lesson...You should have made the Restore Set
during initial setup as you were prompted. Now that you have data integrity
problems on your computer, it is most likely too late. You will have to
contact HP and purchase a restore CD set from them for your specific model.

Bobby

Shame your post didn't appear in response to the OP in google's
archive!

If you had that computer, would you be contacting HP as you suggest? Or
would you reinstall windows yourself?

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

Shame your post didn't appear in response to the OP in google's
archive!

If you had that computer, would you be contacting HP as you suggest? Or
would you reinstall windows yourself?

I would attempt a re-install from the restore partition, but then again I am
the adventurous type. The data corruption that is causing the OP's problem
could be with the boot partition, or it could be with the restore image on
the hidden partition. There is no way to tell unless a restore is
attempted. To be on the safe side, I recommended the OP contact HP for a
Restore CD set...I would order one anyway so that I could sliipstream
updates into it.

Bobby