Sony SZ laptop.

Traveling in Europe. I get to Venice, and my laptop refuses to boot properly. I get an error: ksecdd.sys failed to load or is corrupt. 0xc000000f.

After jumping thru a few hoops, I get a vista repair cd burned from a torrent somewhere on the web. after repair attempts 1-5 or 6, vista happily informs me it cannot fix the problem with startup repair. I looked up similar problems, and attempted command prompt,

C:
CD boot
Dir
Bootrec /rebuildbcd

at which point the rebuild says it was sucessful, but also notes it detected 0 instances of a Windows Vista OS.

reboot fails again. What can I do (assuming hardware is not fucked?)
is hardware fucked?

7/22/2008 5:21:54 PM

scratch that problem, got it fixed.

Now for the real problem.

Vista loads, then goes black at the login screen for a few seconds, then reboots.

Any ideas? Any?

7/23/2008 11:18:28 AM

I've had this happen before but it was a hardware driver issue. Have you tried booting it up in safe mode?

7/23/2008 11:31:25 AM

gets to crcdisk.sys and stops.

7/23/2008 12:27:24 PM

did a little chkdsk /r and it froze halfway through. Waited a half hour with no progress and rebooted. Now when I try to access C: it says missing or corrupt, wonderfuckingful

7/23/2008 1:41:01 PM