In desperation a friend has begged me to fix his Inspiron Mini (1018, I think). When you try and boot it, all you get is BOOTMGR Compressed, Ctrl-Alt-Delete to restart (which does nothing, of course).
It has no optical drive, and he has no windows DVDs or thumbdrives.
There is a product key on the bottom of the machine, but I haven't been able to find anyplace to do anything with it (ie, download an .iso from Dell for a thumbdrive.
All the Googling I've done says the fix is in a Windows 7 thumbdrive...
Any suggestions would be most welcome!
