Won't boot without Repair Disk

alexpinca

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I have a Gateway NV52 laptop...I'm running Vista OS(sp2) and it is 64 bit. Recently, my pc simply failed to boot...I mean nothing. The power light came on and that is it. Luckily, I remembered that I had made a repair disk. It booted the system for me. I've done the F8 thing at boot up to try to fix boot errors, I've checked the memory from that same page, I've done "last good configuration", I restored back to a few days before the failure and did start up repair. I can manually put the pc to sleep and it will wake without disk but if I shut down, it may or may not come back up without disk (the disk seems to be having more and more trouble bringing the system up each time I have to resort to disk). I want to avoid having to do a full recovery but if that is what it is going to take, I guess I'll have to. Does anyone have a good hunch whether the problem is hardware or software???
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Gateway PC Model NV52 14U
    CPU
    AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 dual-core processor QL-64 (2.10 GHz, 1 MB
    Motherboard
    AMD M780G/SB700 Chipset
    Memory
    DDR2 667 MHz memory, 4 GB using two soDIMM modules6
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA® GeForce® G105M7 with up to 23038 MB of TurboCache™ (
Try accessing the Command Prompt with the Startup Repair disk
At the Command Prompt, type these commands (pressing "Enter" after each one):

bootrec /fixboot

bootrec /fixmbr

bootrec /rebuildbcd
 

My Computer

I've tried putting in bootrec from D:\....I keep get unrecognized command. I've just realized that the Repair Disc I am using was made when I was running Windows 7 before I reverted to Vista.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Gateway PC Model NV52 14U
    CPU
    AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 dual-core processor QL-64 (2.10 GHz, 1 MB
    Motherboard
    AMD M780G/SB700 Chipset
    Memory
    DDR2 667 MHz memory, 4 GB using two soDIMM modules6
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA® GeForce® G105M7 with up to 23038 MB of TurboCache™ (
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