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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
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