I was trying to do a System Restore on my Dell Inspiron 1525 (it is running Vista), when an error popped up. It didn't say anything. It was just a red circle with white X. All I could do was click OK. Now it will not start. I keep getting a Bootmgr is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.
I tried to use a Vista Recovery Disk, but it didn't sove the problem. This seems to be a big problem with Vista.

Dell doesn't send disks with the laptops. I have aksed them to mail them to me. I will have to wait and see that will really happen.
I checked (using the prompt) and I believe that the recovery partition is still there. I can get to another 1525, if necessary.

After much digging, I can find where someone used BartPE to get to a command prompt to tell the Restore Partition to image the C drive.

I have used Knoppix in the past to recover files but never to fix my computer. Can I use Knoppix to get to a command prompt to try this?

Thanks for helping out this newbie...