Laptop Help! explorer.exe missing from HD, can not repair, please click and answer asap! – Toshiba?
Question by incucrash: Laptop Help! explorer.exe missing from HD, can not repair, please click and answer asap! – Toshiba?
I have a Toshiba Satellite M65-S821
The recovery disk is missing, it’s a friends laptop.
Windows XP cd will NOT repair because it is asking for an administrator password.
Windows is corrupt! Several missing files, explorer.exe is completely missing from what I see. Windows starts up and all I can access is Task manager, which is very limited to do things in.
sfc /scannow does not work
it’s shelled properly from what i see (shell in registry)
Is there a recovery shortcut? Tried holding F10, F11, and Zero ’0′ while booting….
Administrator password tools seem helpless, and do not want to pay.
Currently backing up files using a 2GB SD card, but I’d really like to install/fix windows xp WITHOUT losing data.
Does a partition work without losing data? what is a good free file to do this with?
let me know options please, give me a couple because i’m trying alot currently!
thanks
Best answer:
Answer by Jordan L
you can do a repair install…this is not the same as the repair which asks for administrator password. insert the xp cd, run set up, follow the prompts for normal xp install…it will detect the presence of existing windows and ask you if you want to repair or install new. choose repair and wait patiently as it reinstalls the files that were corrupted…you should not lose any other data.
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