Vista - DELL Inspiron 1525 with Vista Not Starting Windows...

Hello,

I have a DELL Inspiron 1525 Laptop Computer. I shut down irregularly
yesterday, and now, when I try to start it up, I get a message
stating:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Windows Error Recovery

You have two options:

Launch Startup Repair (Recommended)
Launch Windows Normally

When I try either option it takes FOREVER, and I never get back into
Windows Vista. With the first option it just brings up a progress
status bar like it is doing something, then the screen goes blank
(perhaps a timeout on the laptop). For the second option it just
brings up the progress status bar, and it seems like it is doing
something....but after hours it is still showing that progress bar.

Can anyone tell me what's wrong and how I can remedy this situation?

Thanks
Sam

From what I can gather, it maybe a hard drive problem. It maybe going bad,
or gone bad. When some drives go bad they take forever to read because
they're constantly trying to recover from a errors. RMA it, if it's still
under warrantee.


<samadams_2006@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sam, I had the same problem yesterday. I left it overnight doing the Startup Repair even though it didn't seem to be doing anything (The hard drive light wasn't flickering). This morning it was still going & it wouldn't let me cancel it, so I used the power button and shut it down. When I restarted it and chose to Launch Windows Normally like you I got the progress bar for quite a while, but it then went into chkdsk. Once this had been completed it shut down and restarted , before doing chkdsk again, although ckkdsk was quicker this time. It did this one more time before the logon screen finally came up and I was able to log on normally. I'm not really sure about what I may have done to get it working again, but it seems fine now. It gave me a message that the system had been restored to the 25th July.
Yesterday I went into safe mode by continually presssing F8 after switching on and then I chose to do a system restore. At the time this didn't seem to work , but maybe it had worked after all. My advice would be to do this first and then do the Startup Repair as I did. Hopefully it will work for you too. Good luck!

Sam,I was facing the same problem,but i restored as. press F8 at boot for startup repair,If it solved, otherwise off the system and boot via DVD Rom by selecting DVDrom as first boot sequence, simply by pressing F12 at the time of boot and choose DVDrom to boot.Keep your original CD of vista provided by Dell with the inspiron in the DVDrom before it will boot via CDROM.fallow the on going steps and select repair my computer. Your problem will be solved.

I'm having the same issue...Vista wil not start up, hangs, on the "restart nornally", and goes back to the start up screen when I select Repair.

Will I lose any pics or doc's I have on the HDD by reinstalling the "Reinstallation DVD"? I have Windows Vista Home Basic 32Bit.

Please inform...Thanks

Hi leviriner

Do a system restore frist.

System Restore - How to