Windows files have been damaged. Do I need a Vista 32 bit repair disc?

Hello

Our laptop has recently screwed up by a 'technician' and I managed to get it working again, but it seems that some windows files have been damaged or corrupted.

I did the sfc/scannow, and he has repaired some but said that some are not repairable and I tried workaround renaming on these files and it did not help.

In the end, I think that the best option would be to use the 'fix' that I used with previous computers but this laptop had the OS pre-installed.

I tried to use the option via F8 startup repair and, once again, it seems have suffocating somrthing but yet, there seems to be having trust damaged or missing.

I looked on the web of th for repair dics and I'm not sure that those that you can download and burn it to a DVD/CD are what I need as they seem to refer to commissioning repair function rather than in "repair mode" full I thought I had used previously.

Can someone give me advice on how to do it (without return the laptop to factory settings) to try to fix / replace these files corrupt / missing?

Yes, I'm trying to see if someone has a 32 bit Vista DVD disc and I'll try to use it to get the repair feature, but like I said nobody has this disc I know.

Will just persevere with the question and if it gets really bad enough to return to the factory settings.

Hey biggie eddie

These are the choices

I hope you can find the correct microsoft vista dvd to repair installation

good luck with it

Walter, the time zone traveller

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