Ugh…I have an HP Pavilion. My warranty expired two days ago (I’ve already had to replace a faulty battery).
Was working fine today while I was in class. Brought it home - then, when booting up:
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“windows failed to start”
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“…winload.exe” … "could not be loaded becase the application is missing or corrupt.
Fooled around with the BIOS and did a hard drive self test - error code #7 - 01 fail.
I know I’m stupid for not doing it, but I didn’t back it up to an external drive or anything like that.
Shelling out the money isn’t the worst part - it’s losing all my stuff.
It says I can use my “windows installation disc” (which I never recieved - nor made one) to restart and repair the computer.
Any suggestions?
