Vista - Windows will not Load After Power Blip

Windows will not Load After A Power company Blip.

I had my bios set to load up to the state it was in before the power failed and came home to find I had a power outage and the screen showed one of the windows start up loading green dash scroll bars stuck in the middle.

Safe mode no good.
Boot to Vista disc and repairs cannot be made.
Pulled ram sticks to check for bad ones and no go.

Any ideas?

"therock" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:e74823cfe2b5bb7910735899a7ce6d0d@xxxxxx-gateway.com...Don't know what repairs you tried to make, but did you try a Start-up
Repair? Did you try a System Restore?

SC Tom

Yes to both.

I'll summarize.

BIOS was setup in the event of a power failure to go back into the state it was last running when power is restored. This was done because of a security system I used to run, I wanted the cameras back on ASAP. It stays off now.

After the failure I come home and see the house clocks and such indicating a PF.
I look at the computer and see the microsoft windows dotted green windows loading scroll bar stuck.

Several reboots including to the Vista disc choosing repair all fail. BIOS defaults are no good either.

The HDD's are two WD640GB Black units in RAID1 on the Intel controller. I have another internal single WD750GB Green for misc storage and an External eSATA Newer Technology Gardian MAXimus with 2 WD 750GB RE3 in RAID 1. And a USB WD500GB My Book.

So I read the replies here and knowing I have SP1 and a non-SP1 Vista disc I see a big hassle coming to create a disc to possibly make a recovery move and just decide to reload windows. I have all my major stuff backed up via Genie Pro on the external.

Then in one last chance move I unplug all my peripherals including the single 750GB internal HDD.

She booted up like nothing happened. Plugged it all back in one by one rebooting each time and all is well! Woo Hoo!

Good deal! Glad it's working now.
I don't know for certain, but it was probably the external drive that was
causing the problem. It seems that a number of boot problems are caused by
them, including flash drives. My XP desktop won't boot with a USB pen drive
inserted, or if it will, it takes longer than I am willing to wait before
powering it down and starting over. My Vista notebook takes forever to boot
with my WD external USB/Firewire drive plugged in.
Now that it's back up, you should think about slipstreaming Vista and SP1.
See

http://www.labnol.org/software/tutor...tegrated/2750/

or

Sliptream Vista SP2

for SP2 after/if you install it.

SC Tom

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