Laptop wont boot?

Hello all,

Last night I ran a defrag on the windows drive and on the boot files, now when I try to boot into windows it just hangs at a black screen. So I tried safe mode, same thing. Last know working config, same thing. So I chose the 'Repair my computer' option. Chose start up repair, it came back with: Start up repair has found problems with this computer that cannot be fixed automatically. Well the error was a missing boot manager... So defrag deleted the boot manager for vista? I even tried system restore but it wont allow that either because windows says the drive is dirty...

So basically I'm posting this from Ubuntu live cd until I can figure out what the heck I can do to get back to Vista.

Oh yeah, Ubuntu mounted the vista drive, and right in the main folder (C:\) I see a file named bootmgr... So what gives?

I'm going to transfer all of my files to a external thru Ubuntu then try a system recovery...

Update:

Trying Safe mode with cmd produced a BSOD

While I was in Ubuntu I backed up my complete user profile so I have everything I might need back again.

I tried every single option and nothing worked but system recovery. So, the laptop is now restoring to status: bloat.

lol I'll post back if anything else goes awry.

CH

from ubuntu can you goto c:\windows\minidump? if so can you pull the dump file zip it and upload it?

Ken

If we can get to a command prompt (boot pe?) we can issue these commands:
bootrec /Rebuild BCD
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /Fixboot

Thanks for the tips, but I already did a system recovery. Probably for the better anyways. I didn't lose any of my files and thats the only thing I was worried about. I'm up and running now though. :D

Glad to hear it's up and running!