My mother in law purchased the computer for my stepson when he got out of jail for the second time. Long story, drugs, and alcohol, and you name it. Anyhow, he was going to use it to research jobs and educational oportunities, etc. Within a week I saw it on craigslist and took it from him. He'd already completely messed it up. He goes to websights trying to find online drug sources or something. I had no idea they existed. I thought they were monitored or something. Sorry, back to the subject, he's back in jail and we have this messed up computer with no software to reinstall or to use for recovery. Here are some messages:
windows cannot find %windir%\system32\..........
....... refers to is unavailable
........ environment not found
Issues with actions not taking place when clicked:
comand prompt when clicked will not do anything
when trying to open system files nothing happens
when saving .bat files they are not there
when performing system restore it completes successfully but nothing has changed
cannot create backup disc or recovery disks
cannot run file scan or disk defrag
Too many things to list.
Is there a way to fix this? Does anyone know what caused this?
We have a small budget and would like to be able to repair this for free but it's been sitting since I took it and that's been over two years roughly so I'm sure the warrenty is out. I've been trying what i know for the last week but my skills aren't good enough. I can't even do a system recovery because we don't have the disks.
Please help.
Thank you.
MrWeenie (our youngest named our dog MrWeenie, I hated it at first but if you knew the dog it fits, he's half black lab and half wiener dog)