Have a 32 bit Vista Dell tower that ALWAYS boots to the black screen with white lettering and the 2 choices of launching repair or normal startup. Either choice just takes me to that same screen.
I have run every test imaginable: (all from Hiren's Boot disk)
long SeaTools test - no errors found
Western Digital Diagnostics (its a WD drive) - no errors
HDAT2 (to test and repair bad sector) - Runtime error 217
VIVARD Ver 0.4 test - no errors
Windows Memory Diagnostic - passed
MemTest86 - passed
Except for the HDAT2 test everything looks fine.
If I boot from a Dell Vista CD and select repair the startup repair never ends - 14 hours with the little blue blob moving through the slider box.
Same result from a MS Vista CD.
I even borrowed a Spotmau Power Suite 2011 CD and used it to do a MBR repair, Missing File Repair, and Disk Check. All completed successfully, but I still only have those same two options on a boot.
So I decided to reinstall Vista and inserted the Dell Vista CD. When I get to the screen where I am to select Install or Repair I selected install, got the Please Wait... with the hourglass. Eight hours later it still says please wait. I then tried the MS Vista CD and got the same result.
I have no idea what the problem could be. I removed the drive and hooked it up to another PC and ran a full MalwareBytes. It came up clean. I copied all the documents and pictures to an external drive.
Now I just wanna reinstall...
I have run every test imaginable: (all from Hiren's Boot disk)
long SeaTools test - no errors found
Western Digital Diagnostics (its a WD drive) - no errors
HDAT2 (to test and repair bad sector) - Runtime error 217
VIVARD Ver 0.4 test - no errors
Windows Memory Diagnostic - passed
MemTest86 - passed
Except for the HDAT2 test everything looks fine.
If I boot from a Dell Vista CD and select repair the startup repair never ends - 14 hours with the little blue blob moving through the slider box.
Same result from a MS Vista CD.
I even borrowed a Spotmau Power Suite 2011 CD and used it to do a MBR repair, Missing File Repair, and Disk Check. All completed successfully, but I still only have those same two options on a boot.
So I decided to reinstall Vista and inserted the Dell Vista CD. When I get to the screen where I am to select Install or Repair I selected install, got the Please Wait... with the hourglass. Eight hours later it still says please wait. I then tried the MS Vista CD and got the same result.
I have no idea what the problem could be. I removed the drive and hooked it up to another PC and ran a full MalwareBytes. It came up clean. I copied all the documents and pictures to an external drive.
Now I just wanna reinstall...