I have a Dell laptop purchased a little over a year ago. Yesterday my wife
tried to boot the compuer and got the above error on a black screen.

Tried to reboot and got a list of things the computer wanted to do to try
and fix the problem. None of them worked the next thing was a system restore
to the last known good spot. Well there was not point to restore to. The only
thing that I have left that I can choose is a complete system restore. I
don't want to do that if I can advoid it since I have a lot of information
that I don't have backed up.

Any idea what this error code means? I have googled it and came up with
nothing.

"pjhjones" <pjhjones@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:05302B0F-D366-410E-B54C-27E74E53E6FD@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> I have a Dell laptop purchased a little over a year ago. Yesterday my wife
> tried to boot the compuer and got the above error on a black screen.
>
> Tried to reboot and got a list of things the computer wanted to do to try
> and fix the problem. None of them worked the next thing was a system restore
> to the last known good spot. Well there was not point to restore to. The only
> thing that I have left that I can choose is a complete system restore. I
> don't want to do that if I can advoid it since I have a lot of information
> that I don't have backed up.
>
> Any idea what this error code means? I have googled it and came up with
> nothing.[/color]

Maybe method 2 will get you started:
[url]http://www.kbalertz.com/975430/Error-black-screen-install-Windows-Vista-Service.aspx[/url]

My 'VirtualDiskService-DL.man' file is here:
C:\Windows\System32\migwiz\dlmanifests\VirtualDiskService-DL.man