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07-27-2025 07:10 AM - edited 07-27-2025 07:25 AM
Product: HP Spectre x360 Convertible Laptop PC 14-ea0000 (1R2Q2AV)
seeing below message when ever I try to start my hp spectre windows laptop. I am running windows 11. I have bit locker enabled for the laptop. Even the safe mode windows is not starting. I don’t have installation media.
your pc needs repair the operating system couldn't be loaded because a critical system driver is missing or contains errors. File: |WINDOWS\system32\drivers\nllVmm.sys Error code: 0xc000007b
unable to start the spectre laptop.
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