Hey there,

Got a laptop dropped into my lap. Has Vista installed. Normal boot never gets past the login screen. Safe mode will get past, but just barely. I can try and start the task manager at that point, but it never opens.

Only reliable way to do anything I've got is the safe mode command prompt... Boots up and logs in fine. I can't see anything noticably wrong via regedit, but it's been a long time since I've had to fix up a Windows box... not sure that I would.

Problem I'm having, is that I want to run ComboFix/etc, but have no way to get them on there... When I pop a flash drive in, it seems to mount it (flash drive flickers as normal) but it never seems to be mounted... I cannot access it through any drive letter on the command line.

I managed to start the device manager (devmgmt.msc) and the flash drive was recognized and listed...

Any ideas on how to get this thing going again? (Short of a reinstall.)

(It has no CD drive, either, so burning files to CD would not be easy...)

Thanks!
Adam