I'm trying to repair my brother's computer. He received a bad email and clicked on the link, (big no no I told him never to do it ) well it took over his system, and crash. He's only had the computer a little over a year.
What I get after boot up is Disk Boot Failure insert system disk and press enter.
All well and good - he never made back up discs. (told him to but he didn't listen)
I've tried the F11 without luck. Did the F2 & F10 all comes back to the screen disk boot failure.
this is a HP M8200N running vista home premium AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual cor processor 6000+
How to repair did a lot of research - seems that HP will send the discs, What I've read for this system is they don't work properly. I'm trying to avoid that.
do I purchase Vista and reinstall it?
if so how can I tell prior that this crash didn't blow the HD, or anything else for that matter?
Any advise would be greatly appreciated as I don't know vista, I'm still running xp without problems.
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