Vista - Startup Repair

Hi -

For step 5: What if there isn't an operating system listed?

It says check for drivers and i have a cd with all the drivers that came installed on my machine, i just dont know which one to use....

If you have any idea what im talking about please help

Thanks in advance

Hi Qwerty,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

Go ahead and click Next anyway.

Shawn

haha yea i eventually figured it out last night.

Thanks shawn

ps. all of the "How to" fourms you run are awesome

thanks again

LOL Qwerty, OK. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted.

Thank you,
Shawn

2 thumbs up for startup repair, it is super usefull

Hi, I do not have the CD. It does not come together with it when I bought my laptop. Can you pls advise me?

Hi Pngzhengli,

You can do what is in the Warning box at the top of the tutorial and create your one Recovery disc that you can use to run System Recovery Options from.

Create a Recovery Disc

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I've only just got my Vista machine, desktop, and that only comes with a recovery partition and the motherboard CD plus one for the monitor that came with the system.

Would this be something that would be useful to do now and keep for the future in case of any problems occurring.

The instructions that came with the machine just give the details to recover the machine back to factory settings, although that does include SP1, but of course that wouldn't help if it was just some file or other that got corrupted.

Thanks I'm going to enjoy looking around this place, and hopefully learning more about my machine

Hello Joan,

Yes you have it correct. It can be helpful to have and use the System Recovery Options screen at boot to try and repair your Vista installation instead of reinstalling it if needed.

Shawn