"alitheas" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> My Vista Home premium PC was working fine (6 months) until yesterday. I
> found it had turned itself off. I turned it back on and it tried to
> start up and got the green microsoft vista progess bar for a few
> seconds, then a blue screen of death flashes up (too quick to read
> anything on it) and the PC restarts.
> If i try to boot into safemode it freezes while it lists the drivers
> its loading.
>
> So, I put in the recovery disk, choose the language and click on Repair
> Windows.
> The next dialog box is called System Recovery Options. The problem I
> get here is that there are no operating systems in the list. It says i
> should look for hard drive drivers, but I don't know how to find them. I
> don't know the manufacturer of my drives.
>
> Anyone got any ideas on what I can do to make it work again?
>
>
> --
> alitheas

Start by testing your HDD , since you say you don't know what it
is, Seagate have diagnostic software that will test most [if not all
HDDs]
You obviously have a working machine so D/L it here
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/sup...loads/seatools
Get back with the results.

rgds
Roberto

Thanks, I'm searching for a blank CD right now.
The bios says the fans are ok and the temps are about 26 degrees C.

I have done a bit more research online. I have run chkdsk on C drive no probs, D drive had a problem with the file system that it says it fixed with /F, but it still does not boot into windows and there are no operating systems listed in the system recovery options.

Get back to you when I run seatools.

I've just finished running Seatools.

My drives are:
Dev 0: WDC WD2500KS-00MJBO
Dev 1: Maxtor 6V200E0

Both drives passed the short test.

The WDC drive passed the long test. When doing the long test on the Maxtor, it gets to 1% (LBA 6322184 1 error) and freezes.

I'm running the windows memory diagnostics tool now.

Any ideas on what to try next?

The windows memory diagnostic completes OK.