Dell inspiron 1520 Windows’s error recovery

What's the exact 7-character "service tag" number on your Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop?
What's the exact Windows version on its Certificate-Of-Authenticity sticker?
What's the exact Windows version running in it?

That model laptop was introduced in 2007 and was designed to run Windows XP and Windows Vista 32-bit.
Without being there, it may be difficult to determine if it's a hardware issue or a Windows issue or both.

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flavallee said:

What's the exact 7-character "service tag" number on your Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop?
What's the exact Windows version on its Certificate-Of-Authenticity sticker?
What's the exact Windows version running in it?

That model laptop was introduced in 2007 and was designed to run Windows XP and Windows Vista 32-bit.
Without being there, it may be difficult to determine if it's a hardware issue or a Windows issue or both.

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It is 4L78C3J and windows vista and it's the same one it come with vista

That laptop is 10+ years old, so its Dell support site is not completely functional, so I'm unable to determine what hardware came in it.

Did it come with Windows Vista Home Basic or Home Premium or Business or Ultimate 32-bit?

Just in case Windows Vista 32-bit needs to be reinstalled in it, its driver downloads section appears to be functional.

Official support for Windows Vista 32-bit expired in April 2017, so you shouldn't do on-line shopping with it.

You should purchase a laptop (new or refurbished) which comes with Windows 10.

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Tap the F8 key (it may be F11 so try that if F8 doesn't work) as soon as you switch that laptop on, you should get a menu with 'Repair your computer' as an option, probably the top one and already highlighted, if not use arrow keys to highlight it, then press Enter.

It will boot into the Vista recovery environment, select your keyboard (if not US) then on the new menu select an admin account and enter the password (if you didn't set one just press Enter)

Now on the new menu select 'Dell factory image restore' and press Enter. Follow the onscreen instructions.
That should re-install Vista, you will lose any apps or data you installed yourself though.

This procedure is explained more fully here :- https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/...are-to-the-factory-settings-for-windows-vista

You don't need a disk for this, the hard drive has the Vista restore data in a special partition you can't normally see.