Ive been given an advent 9115 laptop. The original oem is Vista. However the previous owner had tried to install windows 7 on it and cancelled it mid way through installtion (I assume he cut the power). Anyway each time I try and switch it on, I get System Volume Corrupt message. Is there anything I can do to fix it and get it to boot???
Have you tried reinstalling the operating system? There are free utilities that you can download to bootable CD/USB that will let you reformat the hard drive and start again but you shouldn't need one of these.
Can you give little more details?..i mean whether you want to install windows 7 or want to recover your old vista sytem.
First thing i would do is go to dell website and find out how to get access to system recovey for that model some dells use CTRL + F11 when starting up to access recovery partition. you can use the cd but then you will need still go to dell website and download all the drivers for the machine.
alextheg, i don't think that will help M8 windows 7 install was not completed that is why i said either do full vista install from dell DVD or try factory recovery from Dell hidden partition if it is still there.
system volume couuupt Oh, I met with such kind of difficulties, and a friend help me, but I am not clear how to do concretely.
Im going to try use a copy of vista home premium I have. I dont know what the original version of the oem was but Im going to do a fresh install. Fingers crossed!!!
Hey obviously its happen because you close program between installation. so there is not any option to complete it so I think you need to reinstall all setup.