Got the problem figured out and fixed. What happened was files got corrupted within the hard drive, the reason was actually unrelated to Alice fortunately, anyways, to add insult to injury, I couldn't use my recovery disk because it got corrupted itself, which may be because it was scratched. Because the recovery disk was corrupted, I kept getting those graphics chip errors, drwtsn32.exe popping up in the background, etc.
Moving on, the fix I used was basically I didn't want anything to do with windows (because of the frustration) so I got out my Ubuntu live CD and installed Ubuntu OS. I also managed to get my Broadcom wireless adapter working on it too which is a big plus
I no longer have windows on my laptop, but I did manage to backup the files, so everything's all good now
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