Windows 10: Windows 10 Dell Laptop Unusable After automatic recovery disk errors

I own a dell laptop. It was being really laggy and it froze. I couldn’t even restart it. I force restarted it because it was the only other option. After it booted back up, it was in an automatic recovery screen. After that it diagnosed that there were hard drive errors or something. It was taking over 5 hours at that screen, it said “repairing disk errors.” I shut it off because I thought it would go faster again if I restarted it. After that it said my pc needs to be repaired and a required device isn’t connected or can’t be accessed. I tried everything to fix it. I watched countless YouTube

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XP disk versus Laptop Recovery Disk?

My dad wants me to do a clean reinstall of Windows on his laptop.
Through SIW I know his windows code and so I can install xp off one of my disks and use his legit code.
He also has a 'recovery disk' for his laptop, but I've got no experience with recovery disks and don't know what they contain... is it a normal XP?

Would it be best for me to reinstall using the normal XP diskette?

 

Dell XPS Laptop won't boot, error 0xc000014c

I have a Dell XPS laptop that won't boot all of the sudden.

Upon turning on the laptop, it attempts an automatic repair but fails. The first error code it showed all the time was 0xc000014c. It has also shown error code 0xc00000e9.

I have tried the following with no luck.

Booting to a Win10 recovery disc I created from a working Win10 machine in order to access the command prompt. Issued the following commands.
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bcdedit /export c:\bcdbackup
attrib c:\boot\bcd -h -r -s
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bootrec /rebuildbcd
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Attempted startup repair from the Troubleshooting > Advanced Options

Unable to run a System Restore because it says none were found

Tried running chkdsk /r from the Win10 recvoery disk and from khyi Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable PE Rescue Disk, it fails at step 1 with "failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50"

Cant start Macrium Reflect from khyi's boot disc, it just freezes after selecting a keyboard. Was going to try the automatic repair built in there.

Any other suggestions are appreciated!

 

XP disk versus Laptop Recovery Disk?

Recovery disks are just OEM copies of XP disks. Ie, they can have things such as the companys logo within the files.

If you got a normal XP disk you cant use it. The only way your dads copy of XP will activate is if your normal XP copy is OEM, unless you use the recovery disk.

I always use the recovery disks. Works just like a normal copy *Smile . Plus with the recovery disks you dont need the serial key as I *think* its embedded into the files on the disk. Just need to activate windows once on the net *Wink .