Vista - System Restore - How to

I am in an urgent need to get it explained how to make a restore when you are not able to get to Windows.

My Vista worked fine untill couple of days ago and I am unable to start it. When tried to boot it in the safe mode I noticed it stopped when loading CRCDISK.SYS and then just tries to reboot.

Dell Support is claiming I could make a repair by using virtual partition X and Vista Disc. When I tried I couldn't find an OS to choose so I should choose installation file manually.

As that part is new to me and as i am not finding any installation file to select and make a repair I need help.

Please advise.

Hello Sakala, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You could use Option One in this tutorial below to create a Recovery Disc that you can use to do a System Restore at boot (Method Two) here with.

Create a Recovery Disc

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thank you.

I will try and get back.

I managed to run Startup repair but I am now only getting black screen with the pointer on.

It seems that The repair repaired the disc that had some king of "bad volume information that was damaged.

Is there any way to repair even this part?
The PC is pretty new (since June). Should I ask Dell to replace it or is there a workaround?

Thanks in advance.

Sakala,

I would say go ahead and do a clean reinstall of Vista since it still did not help.

Thanks

Your welcome Sakala.

hi err im having an issue with my comp it keeps giving me a blue screen and tells me to run it in safe mode which ive tried but it didnt work and ive done all the other options it listed but none of em worked x.x. i tried to do a system restore like u said but when i clicked on system restore and then create a restore point it wouldnt let me =/. any help would be greatly appreciated >.<.

Hello Lettlestep, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Well, other than a clean reinstall of Vista, you might see if you may be able to a repair install.

OEM means Other Equipment Manufacturer - as viewed by MS. e.g. HP, Dell, Acer, etc.