Vista - System Recovery Options

Hey Brink I just got to thinking (which sometimes for me is dangerous) could the boot records have been bad from the very start and since I had made all the required disks, Bootable Hardware Diagnostic Disk, HP Recover Disc, Backup of Imagine Drive D "Factory Imagine", and External Drive Backup, within the 2 weeks prior to having to reinstall the OS the first time using those disks, if that is the case then I am installing corrupted boot files and this problem will NEVER go away. Is there a way to check to see if the boot files are correct? or if some are corrupted, without waiting for it to happen again? Does any of this make any sense to you? LOL - I hope I haven't confused you. Oh and by the way, I have already taken your suggestion and made a recovery disk and have safely filed it away. Thanks for your help with that problem. Now if you don't mind helping with this problem I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks again.
Lori

Running the Startup Repair would tell you if there was something wrong the boot files, and may be able to repair it if it is able to. Unfortunately there really is not a way to check until it happens next, or if you restore a drive image and still happens.

Do you suggest that I run the start up repair AFTER I back up everything?

Yes, I would backup anything that you do not want to lose to be safe.

Running the start up repair when there seems to be nothing wrong (at the moment), is ok and safe to do to just find out if the boot files are not corrupt? I'm sorry if I'm asking stupid questions, but I just don't want to muck it up I've spend the entire week trying to figure out why the boot files failed for the second time in less than a year. Thank you for all your help and I look forward to hearing back from you. I promise I'll try to quit bugging you, at least for tonite. Thanks again.

No problem Lori.

Yes, running the Startup Repair should not cause any problems for you, but a good backup is always the safe thing to do.