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Can't start computer - Blue screen! HELP

meesha — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:28:33 GMT

I've been having problems with the computer crashing for some time, but today it has finally lost the plot! I have read in another topic about how there might be a problem with the latest upgrade & AV software so I want to see if that will fix it, but I can't even get the computer to turn on. When I turn it on it gets to the 'Launch Startup Repair (recommended) or Start Windows Normally'. If I choose normal it cycles back to this same page, & if I choose restore it goes to the blue screen. HELP

How to backup mbr beforevtrying linux

drudge — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:40:31 GMT

Hi, I want to try linux on my laptop, but I think I should probably backup the mbr before.

My last attempt resulted in an unbootable laptop, complete vista reinstall plus all of my
software and data 5hours+.

The laptop (Compaq cq60) did not come withe a vista disc, only a partition that allows
a restore to factory setup.

Ideally I'm looking for a freeware app that can hopefully create a bootable cd that would restore
the mbr to pre-linux without grub installed.

Any recommendations on a foolproof method. Google throws up lots of info that I either don't
understand or I wouldn't feel confident with.

Thanks

The experience about how do I find my forgot windows password

wskaihd — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:02:26 GMT

Moderator: Repeat post. Details apply to XP, not to Vista.

Don't keep posting this stuff or your account will be terminated and your IP banned.

Complete Restore

ARF — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:23:39 GMT

I have a 2 year old Acer Aspire 5520 - 5912 that I am looking to give away to a friend (I'm going mac LOL) running vista home premium. When I bought the computer it had vista pre - installed on it, so I dont have any discs. What I want to do is restore the computer to factory state to give away. Acer has a backup utility that gives me that exact option, but what I want to make sure of is that when I do this, Vista will still be on the computer, so I dont end up with a blank laptop and have to pay for windows 7.

So restoring my computer to factory state will not erase vista? right? It will just reset the computer to be the way it was when I bought it?

Thanks in advance!

StartUp Repair v2

kondorhorst — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:22:08 GMT

When trying to boot in Vista Home Premium (x86) on my Acer, I am getting the following:

StartupRepairV2

AutoFailover

6.0.6001.18000.6.0.6001.18000

458759

BadDriver

Wrp Repair

1921

6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1

1033

Can't seem to get past this or access/boot the system. Unfortunately, I left the system cd in the States and I am now in Germany.HELP!!!!! :D

takeown command doesn't work.

Firepac — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:08:38 GMT

I'm currently running Vista64 ultimate SP2 and since I can't boot into windows I'm trying to use the takeown command in command prompt to take ownership of a file. However, vista keeps telling me that takeown isn't a correct internal or external command and right now I'm completely stumped.

cant recover

csk444 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:43:20 GMT

i have a hp desktop running vista premium 64 or (technically xp pro 32 now) and neither of them work vistas deleted and xp wont load i dont care about either but i press f11 and the recovery console wont load so i cant restore vista can iget a dvd-rom or something

NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instrucion

jrenlow — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:05:07 GMT

a co-worked restored his 32 it vista business laptop with a neighbor's recovery CD she created on her 64 bit vista ultimate computer. During the process my co worker created a backup of current files in an Emergency folder which is still present. When I try to run the backup_mm-dd-yy_time..exe file it indicted I needed to check to see if running 32 bit or 64 bit, apparently it was runnig 64 bit on 32 bit machine? I've retored the laptop to 32 bit windows vista hoping I could then restore from this emergency folder. It now tells me The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction. CS:1198 IP:0124 OP:63 61 75 16 6f Choose "Close' to terminate the application. Any ideas on how I might recover the data stored in this emergency folder?

Vista on Compaq CQ60 - no internet

muzzatron — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:04:54 GMT

HI all,
I should say first that I am a Vista Forum newbie and am also not used to the Vista operating system. I have used XP before so have knowledge of PC's and am trying to help my 13 year old niece with her Compaq CQ60.

Basically she complained that the internet had stopped working, so I just assumed it was some issue with a firewall or possibly the modem. (But on closer inspection and after doing a system restore, it seems to be something to do with one of the more recent updates.)

I found a restore point a few weeks back and it all worked fine. Then I let it check of system updates and it said there were some available. After downloading and restart I was back to square one again. PC is connecting to the modem but browser says it can't connect to the internet.

Any help would be appreciated.

:)

TRIED REFORMATTING VISTA TO WINDOWS 7, URGENT HELP NEEDED!!!

FOBskuks — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:48:03 GMT

Hey guys,

okay, this is how it all started.... i installed updates one day and then restarted, comp then started to play up. kept crashing at times, some sound on comp wouldnt work (startup tone, sound on internet and mic during game play didnt work), anyways, i deleted that update i installed, no difference. Everytime it crashed (blue screen wit white font) it either said uninstall hardware or update bios. i flashed bios successfully. All of a sudden, it worked for a bit then it just fully crashed on me. I tried to repair using Vista cd no luck. tried to custom, no luck. it will load but then it says "preparing desktop" then just a babyblue background wit a cursor, nothin else. I tried to install windows 7, and it'll do all the neccessary but then i get an error saying ''windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase". PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!

thanks,

Pat, hope to hear from you soon!!!

Recovering lost photos on a dvd.

anna_35 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:32:15 GMT

Hi, I do hope I'm posting this question in the right place.

I like everything about Vista apart, only sometimes it like to mess around with dvd's. I think I need to stick to just using one type. I have burnt lots of photos to a dvd and I have used the same disc to burn more, which worked, but now I can't see any of them ! I know they are there and have even downloaded programmes that says they are there, but without buying the full program none of the photos can be recovered. Is there any free programmes I can download that will recover my photos ? This isn't the first time it's happened!!

Thank you to anyone who can help me.

Blue screen crash dump after login

alibev — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:41:39 GMT

Hi,

My Vista PC has been working fine until yesterday when the following occurred. The PC boots ok and presents the login screen as normal. However, a few seconds after I login a blue screen appears followed almost instantly by a crash dump. Nothing has changed on the PC and I have had a go at unplugging cards and reseating them. The same happens if I try to boot in safe mode. My version of Vista (Home Premium) is an upgrade version on top of XP professional. Without being able to get to the disks, because it won't boot, I am not sure what to do next. The PC won't boot from the Vista upgrade DVD/CD. I am happy to replace the PC but just want to get to the data. I do have backups of most files but want to make certain.

The only other bit of potentially useful information I have is that the PC has been displaying odd lines across the screen for sometime. Particulary bad when looking at Vista menus and equally so when watching a movie or something similar. Other applications are fine but often have a few lines around the mouse pointer. I was suspicious that the graphics card was failing. I have thought of buying a new cheap card to test this theory but would rather not if it is going to be wasted cash.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreiciated.

Many Thanks

Can't login to account. Error: Windows Security - An Internal Error Occurred.

VitoHGrind — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:39:01 GMT

I've been at this one over a week but I haven't been able to resolve it.
When trying to login to my account one morning I received the following error:

Windows Security
An internal error occurred. Please contact your system administrator.

I can log into safe mode and I've tried several different methods to resolve this error, but to no avail. The following are in reference to trying to log into windows vista home premium normally, as in I receive the above error just after clicking on the account icon. I've created two new accounts, one password protected and one not and each receives the error. I enabled the administrator account but received the error. I uninstalled iTunes (the last thing I changed before I went to bed the night before) but still receive the error. I tried doing startup repair several times but no joy (it says it cannot find any problems). I tried going the last known configuration and system restore point route but didn't get anywhere with that either.

One thing that I have found somewhat works is using the Directory Services Restore Mode. This lets me boot into what seems like a more capable safe mode, but I don't think its a long-term solution. I'd like to not have to do a complete system restore so any help as to how to fix this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Vista Recovery CD

WAW8 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:06:02 GMT

The link below [u][b]used to[/b][/u] point to a site (NeoSmart) that has downloads available for burning both 32-bit and 64-bit Vista Recovery CDs. If you bought a machine preloaded with Vista, you probably did NOT get any Vista media; so, you will need the proper CD in order to boot into the repair environment in order to fix Vista.

[b]Update: [/b] Some of you have been around long enough to hear the phrase "no good deed goes unpunished", well, that's exactly what happened to Neosmart. The HTTP download they had offered was discovered by sites in China and linked all over the country. It was abused and there was well over 2-3TB worth of data downloaded from their servers in just a months time.

As a result, they have taken down the link and will not be offering it again.

Since we don't want our server taken down, either, this CD is no longer available through our site.

Unable to do a system restore.

damuzek — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:08:02 GMT

Hello to everyone,

I have been trying to do a system restore because, I'm unable to run any security scan with McAfee, Ad Aware, Windows Defender or Windows live onecare,they start then the computer just shuts off moments later.

After trying to do a system restore of multiple dates, the computer re-starts and a pop-up window appears saying:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

("System restore did not complete successfully. Your computer's system files and setting were not changed.

Details:

There was a disk failure during the restore.")

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm using the Windows Vista Home Basic 32 bit.

Also, the problem seemed to start after running a scan with "Registry Mechanic". I've since uninstalled it but problem still continues.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

_________________

Thanks,

Steve

HELP what has he done

jenidj — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:44:21 GMT

My dad downloaded ALOT toolbar on his Inspiron 1525 he tried to remove it by following instructions on Google the last instruction was

LOCATE AND DELETE THE FOLLOWING REGISTRY VALUE:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ALOT Toolbar

He did this but thought he may have left the ALOT Toolbar from the end and now the machine wont boot. I say all day yesterday trying to re-boot and eventually it allowed me to restore to factory image which worked but then it started to download updates and froze so i rebooted the system and now it wont do anything it comes on and keeps saying Microsoft Corporation with the moving bar and wont go past that. I have tried pressing F8 wont let me into the restore functions. I have tried to get it to boot from the CD/DVD drive to run the OS reinstal disk and it wont do anything. Whats going on and how can i fix this for him??

All help would be much appreciated, I have allready lost half a weekend trying to repair this and its driving me nuts.

Thanks Jeni

Need to reinstall vista but disk in another country. Use different?

cliffh — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:58:20 GMT

Hello

i have a genuine oem vista home premium disk but have left it in my house in Hungary. I live in uk. I want to do a clean install on the original computer, is it possible to use another vista home premium disk and then change the serial number to mine? All components will be exactly the same as when I first built the computer.

Thanks for any help

extremely slow boot to non boot

mas_punk_420 — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:28:18 GMT

specs...

mobo-790i FTW with digital PWM

cpu-quad core 2.6

ram-4 gigs OCZ intel extreme

hard drive-1tb samsung

psu-700 watt OCZ sli

everytime i try to boot my computer up after a mystery shutdown its takes about a half an hour to make it to the boot from cd screen... but then wont go passed that.

was wondering if this is a problem with the hard drive or is it a problem with windows cause after i managed to make it to my disk wiper and there was nothing on the hard drive it booted up fast and had no problem but as soon as the OS was on it, it did the slow boot again..... aslo on boot if i hold the power button it speeds up but then naturaly shuts off cause i'm holding the power button don't know if that helps at all but i just wanted to throw it out there

i don't remember having any viruses or anything

Vista 32bit to 7 64bit boot problems

Xjac0bmichaelX — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:54:37 GMT

My problem started when I wanted to upgrade to Windows 7 64bit from Vista 32. and Yes I have the capability to do that. I have a 1Tb drive and a small 20Gb drive that preveiously had XP. Apparently for the longest time vista had been booting from the 20gb maxtor when it itself is stored on the 1tb hitachi. So when i went to format the maxtor vista will no longer boot. when I select to boot from the hard drive it's on (hitachi) all i get is a blinking line. I have tried the vista repair tool on the cd. I tried fixing and rebuilding the mbr, bootsect, in cmd. I also installed Linux on the maxtor to use the internet and GRUB won't even fire up vista. (it is an option in the list though) I have tried a few things on the UBCD to try to look at the partition. I tried using other third party boot managers. I CANNOT GET VISTA TO BOOT! any help? Ah yes and I can't just reinstall vista or do a clean install of 7 because I need to get sensitive info off the hitachi. Is there any way to upgrade from 32 to 64bit without losing files?

CPU-intel core duo 3.16Ghz
windows vista 32bit enterprise
Kubunto 9.04 that boots
4Gb ram DDR2
saphire 4870 1gb
500w psu

System restore help!

math3w — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:58:46 GMT

Hi guys,
I want know whether i can choose a restore point earlier than the ones given in the available restore options?
im getting all this weird error messages :(..is there any chance?

Mathew

I just want to know if I have to wipe it and start over

schizophrenic and i'm with stupid — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:02:30 GMT

Okay, so I bought a second hand laptop and I created a second user account and made it the administrator but I didn't delete the other user account. I was having trouble getting online and my buddy thought it was due to viruses/worms/spyware/trojans, some sort of web-based parasite. So he looked at it and told me that the original user account was overrun with viruses and deleted it. Now, I can't start Windows in normal mode, or I can, but it just shows a black screen. I tried doing a system restore and it says that no restore points have been created, so I tried startup repair and it stops mid-repair at a screen that says 'if i've recently attached a camera or device, remove it and restart, blah, blah' but I don't know why it would say that cause I didn't attach anything to it but a wireless mouse receiver and even that's been lost for weeks. Also, my security center is shut off now and when I try to turn it on, it just says that 'security center can't be started'. Anyways, my question is, I did end up saving some things to this hard drive that I kinda really want, so, is it salvageable at all or is my best bet just to format and start over? And, on a side note, if I do have to format, who's seen Windows 7 and is it worth it? Thanks.

Complete and total Vista hijack

georgiagirl — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:50:30 GMT

Yesterday I started getting a ton of IE pop-ups (I use Firefox, not IE) after mistakenly clicking a questionable link.

I immediately ran (or tried to run) Spybot Search & Destroy... it started a scan, but within less than a minute, the application just shut down. When I clicked to launch it again, I was given the error, "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions yadda yadda yadda." (I was logged in as an administrator.)

I tried to run a scan with McAfee, but when I hit the "Scan" button, I got this error message:

[quote]An Error Has Occurred

Scanning has encountered a problem from which it cannot recover.

Here are the problem details:
- Error starting on demand scanner

When finished, you will return to the Home window.[/quote]

I tried Lavasoft Adaware... same thing happened as with Spybot S&D.

I searched online and found recommendations for two excellent anti-spyware applications (one is a Windows program)... I downloaded and installed... same thing happened as before -- the scan started, but suddenly the application shut down, and I got the error message when I tried to run it again.

Windows [b]seemed [/b]to be running okay, except that twice, it gave me this error before automatically closing everything and rebooting:
[quote]DCOM server process launch terminated unexpectedly[/quote]

Also, Google seems to be hijacked... when I click to a Google search result, it takes me to an ad page, not the search result. I have to copy/paste the URL in order to go to the right link.

I've tried searching on all these errors and haven't found a solution to my specific problem. This one's tough since NO anti-spyware programs will scan for me!!

Any ideas at all? Thank you in advance for any ideas at all!!

Unable to Boot Winload.exe error

davetib — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:24:15 GMT

After running fine for 14 months, Vista woke up and gave the pipular "C:\windows\system32\winload.exe" is either missing or corrupt.

I've been messing around with this thing for several days now, and I don't really think it's a winload.exe problem. It seems like my Windows boot manager is never getting updated with my changes. I've gone through all the usual steps.. deleted the BCD, rebuilt using BCDEDIT and BOOTSECT etc. When I display with BCDEDIT, my entries look fine, but when I boot, it doesn't look like the boot manager is seeing any of my changes. No matter what I put in for the path statement, it always says c:\windows\system32\winload.exe is missing or corrupt.

I used diskpart to check out the system. I've got a healthy C partition. A healthy D partition and a wonderful Lenovo hidden partition.

Since I have no experience with Vista, I'm not sure if one of these is supposed to say BOOT anywhere on the info line. I've insured my C partition is active, done the windows repair (which tried to work a couple of times) but still the same windows boot manager menu.

I tried to install another Vista in the empty D partition hoping that would crank up the MBR, but no such luck. Then I tried installing Ubuntu Linux hoping I'd at least see the GRUB boot loader, but I still end up with the same old Windows Boot Loader and the same default entry.

What am I missing? There is only 1 drive in this box so something should tell me where the boot manager is loading from.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Dave

The writer experienced a transiet error. If the backup process is retired, the error may not reoccur. (0X00423F3)

sshawn89 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:09:45 GMT

I recently did a system restore because I downloaded the CA antivirus and spyware off insightbb and it lagged me totally. The system restore worked but now it wont let me have internet at all for some weird reason. I have called my internet provider they said everything looked fine. So I try to undo the system restore. It loads like its doing it sometimes then it brings up start up repair when it restarts. After that it takes me right back to where I am now. And for some reason I have no access to the internet. And sometimes on others it will say:

The writer experienced a transiet error. If the backup process is retired, the error may not reoccur. (0X00423F3)

I found a thing on google saying something about something could be wrong with the registry and to download a site. But the weird thing is im not getting my internet access. On my thing is says Unidentified Network.

My computer is a emachies, 320 gb hard drive, with windows vista home peremium with SP1.

The only thing diffrent from the restore is my AVG 8.5 is back and my Norton's 360... And it cannot find the Nortons 360 which I uninstalled both to get CA. But I dont see why I wouldnt have internet connection. Like when I try to go on the internet it says Cannot Display Page. With a Diagnose button.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Vista Won't Start Up

PatJackson — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:09:11 GMT

Hey guys,

I'm running Windows Vista Home Basic on a Compaq Presario. Last night I shut it down as normal and it was fine, then today when I tried to turn it on it begins loading as usual but then freezes at the "welcome" screen.

I have tried using the recovery tool and it says that it fine yet still freezes at the welcome screen.

What are my options? The laptop came pre-installed with Vista so I don't have a CD to re-install it.

Additionally, whatever I do, I can't afford to lose all of the files that I have on it. (I know I'm an idiot, I don't have them all backed up)

Let me know if there are other factors I need to include.

Here is a photo of the "welcome" screen that I'm talking about.

As you can see, that little circle just continues to go around and around and no progress is made.

I would be extremely appreciative to anyone that can help me out!

Thanks,

Pat.

Vista Ultimate won't boot up (black screen of death)

slycer2002 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:04:51 GMT

Okay, bear with me, as this may be a little long. A friend was going out of town last weekend, so he shut his computer down and unplugged it before he left. It was working fine at that point. When he got back home, and started it up again, after the BIOS loaded, it went straight to a black screen and wouldn't budge.
Anyway, he called me for help, and I figured it would be a simple fix, just use the Vista cd and do a Start-up Repair on it. Easy, right? Wrong. I forgot that the DVD player in his system has an issue and won't read disks. So, I took his computer to my house, removed the HDD, and installed it in my computer. Before I go on any further, the computer that was having the issue is a Dell Inspiron 531 running on an AMD Athlon X2 (not sure of the exact speed, but it came with Vista pre-installed from Dell, so I'm assuming it meets the minimum requirements), and the one that I was going to use to fix the issue is a Dell Dimension E510, running a Pentium 4 3.0Ghz and 2.5Ghz of RAM.
So, I put the Vista cd in my DVD player, changed the boot sequence, and booted off the cd. Now, when it got into the repair utility, it did NOT list the Vista OS for me to repair it. It said something about (paraphrasing) "... if your OS is not listed, load the drivers for your HDD. Please select the source of the drivers for your HDD to install..." or something to that effect. I have no idea what the drivers would be called, or where to look for them. Besides, it was my understanding that Vista didn't need HDD drivers to run. So, I hit the 'Next' button, and went right to the next page, did a Start-up Repair, and the computer finished and restarted. I went back into the BIOS, readjusted the boot sequence, and restarted again. This time, it came up and said "Drive 2 not found, SATA (something or other) Pri IDE Master. Press F1 to continue or F2 to run the setup utility..." This can't be good. If the HDD isn't showing up, does this mean that the drive is fried?
I was going to use my DVD drive in my friend's computer, but my DVD drive uses the old fashioned parallel ribbon cables, whereas his uses the SATA data cables.
ANY help on this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

BSOD - driver less equal 0x000000D

gerrardasnails — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:43:57 GMT

I turned on my pc yesterday and got a BSOD. It was the STOP driver less equal (or whatever) and 0X0000000D etc. I couldn't get to safe mode as my usb keyboard wasn't working. I changed keyboard (different usb one) and in safe mode found an (i) by IR device in device manager. Also found another (i) by usb IR or something (I'm at work now so this is from memory). Another (i) was by Ethernet controller. My router is about 3 weeks old and has been working fine. I added 2mb of ram (2 sticks) a couple of weeks ago and all has been fine. I disabled the Ethernet Controller and still got BSOD. I took out the new ram and still got BSOD. I haven't uninstalled the IR device as I think that must be the keyboard and mouse and I wouldn't be able to do anything then. Any ideas?

Cannot delete folder windows.old

tcognita — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:41:56 GMT

I had to reinstall Vista Business on my Dell laptop Latitude ATG D630 after a system crash. The backup created a folder on C:\ that is called Windows.old. That folder contains much or all of what was on my hard drive at the time of the crash, about 20GB. I don't want to recuperate the info as I already had a back-up on an external drive. However, I cannot delete the folder, when I try to recycle it, Vista tallies up the 20GB of data, then I get a message that the folder cannot be deleted because it doesn't exist or its address cannot be found. I tried using a line command with the same negative result. The folder shows up in Windows Explorer, it is definitely occupying a lot of space on my hard drive. Anyone have a suggestion for getting rid of it? Thanks!

Blue screen on boot caused by charging Laptop

NITR8 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:14:48 GMT

If I leave my laptop on charge when I turn it off, when i turn it back on again I get a blue screen error during boot, I have reformated hardrive and reinstalled windows but I am still getting the same problem.

Just so you know I only leave it on charge untill the charge light shows its fully charged, so I am not over charging it.

Any Ideas what problem could be causing this as I am stuck.

System Restore Not Working

David4321 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:15:29 GMT

Hello

My system restore fails every time I attempt it. This has happened the last 3 times I had a need to attempt restore. (Three attempts separated by months in time, about different issues.) This time, I am thinking something may be wrong with my system restore function.

In this case, it is simply a matter of trying to roll back a browser update.

I saw a whole list of available restore points, and I went to the second one back - from only a few days ago. The restore failed.

I am using Windows Vista Home Premium, OEM from Gateway Laptop about 1.5 yrs old. I allow most updates.

Any Suggestions? Thanks.

i cant start windows vista

AGATINA — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:26:39 GMT

Hi all,
I have a problem with my laptop since this morning! I wanted to start it up as normally but it didnt want to start windos well, there was just a blue screen with a window "SETUP REPAIR" i have tried to solve it on my own but im not really into that suff , so now when i run my laptop it runs automatically START UP REPAIR and try to repair it but finally there just shows up a windos saying "Start Up cannot repair this computer automatically" . I aslo tried to start it from Advanced Boot Options and there is select "repair your computer" then there is a window saying SYSTEM RECOVERY OPTIONS i select a language and clikc NEXT then "to acces recovery options, log on as a local user" and " to acces the command prompt as well, log using an administrator account" so i select administrator account and click ok and it says something like that "Your account has been disabled. Please see ur sysmtem administraor" but then i select my user name i clikc ok and it goes on to SYSTEM RECOVERY OPTIONS and there i can choose a recovery tool , the operatin system is Microsof Windows vista on (C acer and ive tried to do startup repair or system restore (it doesnt find a restore point" and there is a still a problem that it cant repair it automactially!
I REALLY need help with that! is there anyone how could tell me step by step how to make it work! i have very important files on my laptop and all stuff like photos, documents, ect...i really dont wanna install new software which will delete all the files!

ahhh....i have just notice that when i did starup repait last time it showed me message like this "if u have recently attached a device to this computer, such as a camera o portable music player, remove it and restart your computer, If u continue te see this message, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance

also i was advised to use some program to get all my data and re-iinstal system, but i still hope that someone can find other solution for my problem, much easier?

PS: sorry for some english mistakes, its not my mother tongue

Vista Startup Repair

WAW8 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:31:09 GMT

When Vista just won't boot (a problem that seems to be increasing in frequency now), you need to use the Startup Repair Tool (SRT) to get your system back.

The link below walks you through doing a Startup Repair in Vista step-by-step:

[url] http://www.windowsvista.windowsreinstall.com/vistaultimate/repairstartup/index.htm [/url]

Many thanks to the WindowsReinstall site for making this available.

Problem with Ready Boost / Can't start Windows Vista

Frank_M — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:37:38 GMT

Recently added a Sundisk 2GB flash card (on drive H) to my computer and went through Vista to setup this drive to use the "Ready Boost" feature (my computer also has 4GB of RAM).

Everything appeared to be working fine. No problem shutting down Vista.

Eventually started my computer again, and my computer hung (black screen appeared) after the Dell banner screen was displayed (Vista never started / turned off computer).

Removed the flash card, started my computer again, and the computer booted correctly.

Any ideas as to why the flash card seems to be the cause of this boot up problem?

How to backup iPhone SMS messages from iPhone to Computer folder

Tonison — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:46:44 GMT

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Robocopy:A great FREE incremental backup solution

Jason — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:49:30 GMT

While I was searching for a backup solution to use on my new server, setup as follows:

1 - 160GB SATAII Internal Drive

1 - 1 Terabyte SATAII Internal Drive

1 - 1 Terabyte SATAII External Hard Drive via USB 2.0

I initially thought about running both drives internally and in a RAID 1 for redundancy. I was searching for this solution because I store all my important data (personal docs, music, movies, etc..) on this file server (just a Vista box which stays on all the time). RAID looked like it would be nice but I didn't fully trust the fake RAID which comes with many motherboards these days. The reason behind this is the inherent flaw in how RAID operates. If a corrupt file is created on one drive the same corrupt file will be place on both drives in a mirrored RAID setup - therefore your data integrity is still at risk. Also if something were to happen to the RAID parity or if the array crashed you would lost all data.

What I decided to do was use an external drive, and map the 1 Terabyte internal drive to all my home workstations. I then created a job which runs every 3 days which does a full incremental backup of the internal drive to the external drive. There is a separate job which runs every night which backups only a few important folders from the internal -> external such as folders containing frequently updated documents.

While looking for a solution which could do this (I assumed 3rd party software) I overlooked our new friend Robocopy. Robocopy is a new file copying command line program which comes installed with Vista and Win7. Robocopy has a feature/option called /PURGE what this will do is basically mirror everything from the source to the destination. This means that if you delete a folder in the source it will also delete it from the destination. This allows directory mirroring and incremental backups as Robocopy only copies non-same files from source to destination.

I use the following syntax in a batch file which is run via a scheduled task in Vista/Win7.

Robocopy S:\ E:\ /COPYALL /PURGE /R:0 /W:0

S: is my internal drive and E: my external. /COPYALL copies all file attribute info, /R stands for number of attempted file copy retries and /W provides the amount of time to wait before retrying.

Robocopy syntax: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/07/robocopy-syntax-command-line-switches-and-examples/

Vista crashes on boot up(even safe mode)

trickae — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:47:24 GMT

A year ago I built a new PC
quad core 3.0Ghz,
4 gigs of Ram
2 500Gig HD's
Geforce 8800 gts
So I'm certain it can run vista ultimate.

Vista had been working smoothly with no problem but now it suddenly started to hang on the boot screen with the loading green bars. It stops and never continues (no matter how long I leave it). The main problem I have is that I cannot even boot in safe mode either

I have no external USB devices plugged into my computer, just mouse and keyboard(PS/2).

For a fast boot, I have disabled unnecessary start up programs such as java, apple services, adobe updater etc etc and run virus scans and spyware cleanup software on a weekly basis.

If anyone has any suggestions or steps I can take to troubleshoot the problem please let me know

backup and restore

popgeorge — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:54:08 GMT

When trying to use the backup and restore opertation i am advised that backup settings are incorrect.. refers 0X81000029

The D drive is formated and backup took place when the equipment was new. Could anyone advise as to what needs to be done to restore the system works setting.

Return from sleep mode blue screen

HilaryB — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:30:19 GMT

Every once in a while, when my laptop is returning from sleep mode I get a blue screen! Here are the problam details and any help would be great!Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: BlueScreen

OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3

Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:

BCCode: 1

BCP1: 000000007565385E

BCP2: 0000000000000000

BCP3: 000000000000FFFE

BCP4: FFFFFA6008606050

OS Version: 6_0_6001

Service Pack: 1_0

Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:

C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini070609-02.dmp

C:\Users\Hilary\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-66940-0.sysdata.xml

C:\Users\Hilary\AppData\Local\Temp\WER32C2.tmp.version.txt

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Restoring Vista fonts

WAW8 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:45:54 GMT

We've been getting posts about folks having removed some fonts from Vista and now, they want to restore them. Under XP, you inserted the CD and used the Control Panel to locate the font files and restore them. But under Vista, the DVD doesn't contain individual font files or .CAB files anymore; instead, it contains compressed Windows Image files. So, the procedure is quite different.

However - there is both good news and bad news. Good news is that you can restore the default Windows fonts with a simple command. Bad news is that it's likely to reset your system files back to the state they were in when Vista was first installed, meaning, that there's a risk that ALL windows updates will be lost and have to be reapplied. That's because the operation restores ALL of your Vista system files to their original state, not some of them, and you can't choose which ones to restore.

To do this "fix", you do the following:
1) Open a command window with elevated rights: Enter "cmd" in the start menu, press Ctl-Shift-Enter, click OK on the UAC prompt.
2) In the command window, enter "sfc /scannow". This will scan ALL the windows system files and replace them with the original. It's very likely that it will prompt you to insert the original Vista DVD -- so it can uncompress the original image file and rewrite the system files from that.

The reason I say "very likely" is twofold. First, because I have NOT done this and don't know for sure what it will prompt you for, and second, Vista stores some system stuff when it does the installation. Don't know if it stores enough stuff such that it doesn't require the original DVD to restore the fonts folder.

So, unfortunately, this is a "use at your own risk" activity. Sorry.

Blue Screen

klo44w — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:07:17 GMT

This has probably been asked plenty of times, but I have just gotten the BSOD 2x today. Usually, its 1x per day.

Problem:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 1000008e
BCP1: C0000005
BCP2: 82087BD7
BCP3: B222C200
BCP4: 00000000
OS Version: 6_0_6002
Service Pack: 2_0
Product: 768_1

I am running a Lenovo Notebook Y310, with a Pentium Dual Core and 3GB RAM, 160 GB HDD.

I am close to chucking the notebook out the window though I think it's the OS.

Please help!