That's the error message I get on startup. I tried going thru the
instructions on the Microsoft website at
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;307545 but can't get
past the first step in the Recovery Consol of typing "md tmp" because it says
"access denied". In six years I've never used a password on this computer so
I don't know what the access problem could be.

Honestly, since most of my important data was backed up on an external hard
drive, all I want out of this are the hundreds of bookmarks I had stored on
IE. If I can get those back, the whole laptop could go in the trash as far as
I'm concerned!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. - Bill