January 31st, 2008, 03:23 PM
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| Help Windows failed to load?
Just this morning I went to turn on my laptop and it encountered a problem.
I'm getting the Windows failed to start...
File: \Windows\system32\DRIVERS\royal.sys
Status: 0xc00000e9
Info: Windows failed to load because a critical system driver is missing, or corrupt.
I don't have a problem re-formatting, but there is one file in the computer that I want to recover, it's my emails from outlook.
Is there a way to boot the computer with a USB drive and manually search for the file and place it on the USB drive?
I can't access anything past the BIOS. I cant get into command prompt either.
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January 31st, 2008, 04:22 PM
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January 31st, 2008, 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Effitol  Just this morning I went to turn on my laptop and it encountered a problem.
I'm getting the Windows failed to start...
File: \Windows\system32\DRIVERS\royal.sys
Status: 0xc00000e9
Info: Windows failed to load because a critical system driver is missing, or corrupt.
I don't have a problem re-formatting, but there is one file in the computer that I want to recover, it's my emails from outlook.
Is there a way to boot the computer with a USB drive and manually search for the file and place it on the USB drive?
I can't access anything past the BIOS. I cant get into command prompt either. | You could stick that hard drive into another machine and just copy the files you want right off of it.
Do you have more than the one hard drive in that computer?
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January 31st, 2008, 05:45 PM
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Have you tried doing a system restore "F8" before windows starts/after the BIOS? | |
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January 31st, 2008, 08:11 PM
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| Grumbles...I hate these damn "help" threads...thread title changed.
Ps any and all those suggestions are viable
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January 31st, 2008, 08:30 PM
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I'm running Vista.
When I put the CD in and load off of it, I get all the way to the loading files from CD screen then when it finishes that, the screen stays black and all I can see is the cursor.
I can't even get to the screen to re-install it now.
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