Vista Tutorial - Startup Repair

Oh, nice to know that. Thank you Mansrm81.

Shawn

tnx again shawn this actually resolved my problem.. tnx.. ur the best..

You're welcome BlackHawk. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted.

Shawn

Just want to say a big thanks to shawn. Having just purchased a new laptop found it wouldn,t boot at the second time of asking so i rigged up my old system(good job i hadn,t sold it)found this thread and made a repair cd and it worked at the 1st attempt,so again many many thanks and an excellent forum

You're welcome Case, and welcome to Vista Forums. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted.

Shawn

Whent to restart and same bios screen came back again, booted from the repair disk but why wont it boot from hdd,this is a brand new 64bit vista home premium version and it started up ok 2 days ago when i recieved it, i think i might after look at sending it back to acer now tried again and opted not to repair from 1st option so canceled that and then noticed the diagnostic tool had not detected any o/s (COULD IT BE LOOKING IN THE WRONG PARTITION)clicked next anyway as posted earlier and got the full diagnostic screen, clicked repair and when it came to boot i never hit any key to boot from cd and it booted up fine. I then changed the boot options back to hard drive removed the repair disk and restarted the computer and hey presto all was well untill the next time when it went back to the bios screen so what the hells going on here i dont know. Any ideas greatly appreciated before i top myself or mi head self explodes.

Case,

I have added Method One to help as well since you have a OEM Vista, but it's pretty much the same method with a different way of getting there.

Do you have more than one physical hard drive installed? I had this happen to me one time where my system was trying to boot off the wrong hard drive that Vista was not installed on. I had to unplug the other hard drive, ran Startup Repair for the Vista drive, then plugged back in the other drive to fix it.

If this is not the case, then double check to make sure that you are selecting the correct partition with Vista on it in step 5 (Method Two).

OK will give that a go, its defo got 2 partitions c and d and there a windows icon at the c side and nowt at the d side if yer see what i mean. Thanks for the reply. Oh ive been on it all day and its purring along nice when it boots upIts not detecting any vista o/s,as in method 2 step 5 why is that do you think?

Shawn,

I hope you can help me. I have the same issue but when I click NEXT and Select Startup repair it says that it performed fixes and that I have to restart. When I do I still have a blue screen after load bar but prior to log on screen.

I perform regular restore checkpoints and backups but I can access none of them in the Repair Tool. I don't know why as the Backups are kept on a separate external drive (Striped).

The command prompt does not allow me access to the C: drive. It just stays hanging on X:\sources

Here's how the problem first occurred:
I left my house this morning and left the PC on. Upon my return the computer had a black screen. When I rebooted it asked me to run chkdsk and started the countdown so that I could stop it. I figured I would allow it since it had been a while and it found corrupt indexes and made corrections. Upon completion. It could no longer boot into the OS.

Thanks to anyone in advance for a reply. I realize the thread is a bit old but I really need the help. My home business relies on this PC.

Hi

im having similar issues, however, when I startup my laptop it comes up with system restore options, as you have posted on the first page. when it comes to selecting an operating system, there are none displayed. I've been working with it for a few days now, and even though I click next 'without worrying', it goes to attempt repair but fails.

any ideas?