Dell Latitude D820 with Windows XP will no longer boot. User thought he had a virus, but upon restart to try and repair issue, things just kept getting progressively worse. Originally, I was able to get to the Sophos login, but boot up failed after that. Ran Safeguard recovery CD and tried Fix MBR, BCD repair, and a few command line functions to repair boot up. Now, after Dell splash, I just get booterror and a blinking cursor. All of the fixes I've seen require running the windows install disc to repair boot/OS install. but I can't run it through the Safeguard PE environment on disc or from USB. Currently, drive is slaved to another 820 that has Safeguard installed. Just can't figure out a way to unencrypt the drive.
This user is in our finance department and has a lot of custom reports, queries etc. Unencryption and then clean up/repair is really the preferred option if possible.
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