My friend has a Dell Inspiron 530 running Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit (SP2) which he purchased in July 2008. Yesterday, he uniinstalled and reinstalled my Microsoft VX-3000's drivers. Today, it is giving me the error message, "Windows Failed to Start- A Recent Hardware or Software Change Might be the Cause."
It gives him:
/Windows/system32/winload.exe
Status: 0xc000000sF
The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.
When he tries to repair using his Dell Repair Disk (for SP1), it gives
Startup Repair cannot repair this computer automatically.
Problem Event Name: StartupRepairV2
Problem Signature 01: ExternalMedia
Problem Signature 02: .0.6001.1800.0.0.0.0
Problem Signature 03: 0
Problem Signature 04: 65537
Problem Signature 05: unknown
Problem Signature 06: Corrupt bootconfig data.
Problem Signature 07: 0
Problem Signature 08: 1
Problem Signature 09: Fixed partition table.
Problem Signature 10:1168
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Please note that he told me all of this over the phone, so there may be slight mistakes in the error codes. I have a feeling that because his repair disk is for SP1, and he is running SP2, it is not working. I vaguely remember something about "slipstreaming" Windows XP service packs on to older installation disks.
If you could please, along with diagnosing the problem, give me a download link for the Repair Console for Vista SP2 along with instructions on how to use it (as long as its legal)?
Every single time I come to this help community, I get tons of reliable assistance. Thanks a lot!
