My daughters Acer laptop went belly up last Monday. At boot up it comes to a screen that says startup repair or boot normally. On boot normally it goes around for a while then comes back to the Acer logo screen. on startup repair it just goes back to the startup repair or boot normally screen. I downloaded and used a Vista Recovery Disk and it comes up with system volume on disk is corrupt. using chkdsk results in failed and error code = 0x1f. Do I need to nuke and pave or try to get a set of disks and just reinstall vista?

Thanks,

Runnersdad