I have read previous encounters with this but none have lead me to solutions. So here is my issue and I hope this is the right area to post this.



One day the power on my HP laptop went out. The battery is already old and lasts about 10 minutes. So I need constant supply. I went to start it and it comes up with the opening page (where you can press F8, F10 etc...to go to options)
Then a black screen with a white bar on the bottom Loading Windows Files or something like that.
Then the normal black screen with the Windows Vista gold bar loading
then it goes to a blue screen, you see some quick black windows open (looks like cmnd windows) and then it goes right to Startup Repair.
I have run this 50 times to no avail.
After the manager finishes and tells me it cant fix and asks me to send a report (which I cannot do) I have been selecting to go to the System Recovery Options.
Before I go further, I have tried to go into Safe mode, Normal Mode, Administrator startup, Start with Command Prompt and I get nothing. Same loop.
In the SRO I have done the startup repair again, nothing fixes.
I have done System Restore, but none of my backups can repair the problem.
I have done the memory diag. Nothing.
I do not even have the command prompt option.
Which I find odd.
I downloaded a recovery disk from some website for 10bucks and tried to change the startup to CD/DVD drive and it just goes into the loop again.

Please help! The tech guys where I am living now (Iceland) can only save some of my memory and give me a blank laptop back. I know there must be a solution other than that.
Oh and I was not given a Vista disk when I bought the computer that I know of and If I did it is in a locked black military footlocker in New Jersey somewhere and I am the only one with access to it.

Thanks guys!

Yes, there are things I would like to save. I have documents, itunes music (from an old account that I cannot get back) pictures and programs that I use for art that I could download again I guess. Not alot of the stuff, mostly programs and some writings.

Here, btw, is a startup repair diag and details if it will help
Last Successful boot time: 7/28/2012 60104am GMT
Number of Repair Attemps: 34

Session Details
Disk = /Device/Harddisk0
Windows directory = C:/Windows
Number of root causes = 1

Test performed: All successful

Root cause: Startup repair has tried several times but still cannot determine the cause of the problem

I am flabbergasted.

You can download a repair disc I made.

https://skydrive.live.com/#cid=B0A22...89320E3247!345

The file to d/l is called REP.7z.

Rt click it >properties>unblock>Apply>OK

It is a .7z file , so you need the free program 7-zip to unzip it. http://www.7-zip.org/

That will give an .iso file, which you burn to cd as an image.

If you don't have an image burner, use this from the lovely people at Terrabyte: burncdcc.zip

Boot up the cd on the sick machine.

Drive letters will look different from there - don't worry, that is normal.

Find your windows drive letter and your active partition drive letter. ( You can fire up partition wizard to see which is the active partition - while you are there , check if your Windows partition is shown as Primary, or a Logical partition. )

Close partition wizard and open NT6Repair .




Under Auto Boot Repair , select your Windows partition and your active partition letters, and click Apply.

See if that does it.

If that doesn't do it - try it again - this time (IF your windows partition is a Primary ) , mark it Active , and then select your windows partition in both dropdowns.

( If that doesn't help, we can replace the registry hives from backups )