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Boot Manager Missing/Recovery stalls on Disc 5 - readable on PCs
Hello all ... Hope someone can help-
My nephew took my laptop and instead of asking me to sign in using my own PW he somehow set up two additional accounts. When I got it back from him it was missing the boot manager. I got my recovery discs for the laptop I'd purchased last year thinking it would do the trick. I can't seem to get it complete a repair or complete system restore. It keeps giving me the following error messages:
REPAIRING C DRIVE:
Your C: drive is too small or may not exist.
Click OK to return to the Vaio Recovery Center main menu. From the menu select "Restore Complete System" to perform a complete system recovery.
COMPLETE SYSTEM RECOVER ON DISC 3 first time, then Disc 5 on all other attempts. Both are readable on other PC's and Laptops with the ability to open files I can open.
An error occurred while executing an application.
While attempting recovery a necessary file was not found. Check your recovery disc's condition and try recovery again. If this error occurs again the recovery disc may be corrupted or damaged.
I checked the DVD and it runs fine. Checked the hard drive and its reporting no problems.
I suspect its the missing boot manager situation or maybe something my nephew did to make it possible to by pass my admin account and set up additional admin account and a guest user account. I'm not sure, but I didn't think it was possible to set up additional user accounts without signing in.
Now, as it stands my laptop is a nice huge paper weight. Any suggestions of ideas on how to fix this and how this happened would be appreciated.
Thank you! :)
Tessa