You can order them from HP indeed but you cant make them on the other laptop unless its an identical or very close model.
Well, at that prompt, type
C:
Hit Enter. Then type
dir
Hit Enter. Do you see the windows folder there and other folders like Program files and Users? If yes, C: is the windows drive. If not move on to D: and so on.
Ahhh, thank you, I did not know that!
Duh, I knew that! Dir shows the folders.
Yes, drive D shows the windows and program files folders.
Performing a chkdsk on that drive now....once that is finished, should I then run the fixboot command you gave me?
Yes, you can do that. In addition to fixboot you can also try
bootrec /fixmbr
and
bootrec /rebuildbcd
Thank you so much, hopefully one of those options work!
I read somewhere that fixboot/mbr can mess with the partitions?
I should run all of these commands with the prefix of x:/windows/system32, right?
I seriously cannot thank you enough for your help and quick replies!
Yes, at the X:/windows/system32 prompt.
I just tried:
x:windows/system32/bootrec.exe /fix boot
It says the process completed successfully- but the computer still will not boot.
Trying the next command now but I wanted to post to be sure I typed the command in properly-
X:/windows/system32/bootrec.exe /fix boot
I do not have to have drive D in there anywhere?
No you don't have to specify the drive letter in the bootrec command.
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