I've seen other posts for this subject, but I'm not clear that any resolutions included anything less than a full wipe and restore.
Equip: Dell D620 w/Vista Business SP1 (I believe that SP1 Auto Updated correctly)
My processes so far: From a cold start, I boot the machine, and within 10 seconds, I receive the Win Boot Mgr. message stating that the WDFLDR.SYS is missing or corrupted. I hit ENTER, where I'm led to the Windows Error Recovery page. This gives me boot options; safe mode, last known good configuratioin, etc., and none of them work, and I'm looped back to the same error message.
I don't have any of the disks that came with the machine, so I had to borrow a Vista Business SP2 CD from a friend. I can boot to this disc. If I select INSTALL NOW and attempt to perform an Upgrade, I can't. It's grayed out, and there's a message at the bottom of the page that says "Upgrade has been disabled". My other options from the CD is "Repair your computer". This lands me on the System Recovery Options window, where it highlights the only possible selection- Windows Vista Business. I hit "next", which immediatly lands me onto a System Recovery Options page, having five options:
Startup Repair runs and finally delares that it can't fix the missing file
System Restore doesn't fix the problem
Windows Complete PC Restore- An option of last resort that I haven't attempted because I haven't backed up my machine in 102 days!
Windows Memory Diag Tool - completes successfully
Command Prompt - which I can successfully navigate, using my dated knowledge of DOS.
Using the CLI, I can navigate to where I thought the file should be and it's not there.
Based upon the above is there anything else that I can do, short of whiping the machine clean? Did I miss anything? Any clues as to why I can perform an in-place upgrade using the Vista Business SP2 CD that I have in-hand?
As a platform this mature, you can imagine that it has quite a few important files on it- none that I'd like to lose if I can help it.
Equip: Dell D620 w/Vista Business SP1 (I believe that SP1 Auto Updated correctly)
My processes so far: From a cold start, I boot the machine, and within 10 seconds, I receive the Win Boot Mgr. message stating that the WDFLDR.SYS is missing or corrupted. I hit ENTER, where I'm led to the Windows Error Recovery page. This gives me boot options; safe mode, last known good configuratioin, etc., and none of them work, and I'm looped back to the same error message.
I don't have any of the disks that came with the machine, so I had to borrow a Vista Business SP2 CD from a friend. I can boot to this disc. If I select INSTALL NOW and attempt to perform an Upgrade, I can't. It's grayed out, and there's a message at the bottom of the page that says "Upgrade has been disabled". My other options from the CD is "Repair your computer". This lands me on the System Recovery Options window, where it highlights the only possible selection- Windows Vista Business. I hit "next", which immediatly lands me onto a System Recovery Options page, having five options:
Startup Repair runs and finally delares that it can't fix the missing file
System Restore doesn't fix the problem
Windows Complete PC Restore- An option of last resort that I haven't attempted because I haven't backed up my machine in 102 days!
Windows Memory Diag Tool - completes successfully
Command Prompt - which I can successfully navigate, using my dated knowledge of DOS.
Using the CLI, I can navigate to where I thought the file should be and it's not there.
Based upon the above is there anything else that I can do, short of whiping the machine clean? Did I miss anything? Any clues as to why I can perform an in-place upgrade using the Vista Business SP2 CD that I have in-hand?
As a platform this mature, you can imagine that it has quite a few important files on it- none that I'd like to lose if I can help it.