Hi all,
I recently purchased a new motherboard after my old one died. I can't get my Vista running on it again.
I have a SATA harddrive with Vista Ultimate x32 installed on it. When I boot the machine, I get the standard Windows Error screen. I've inserted the Vista recovery disk in the optical drive, but even after changing the BIOS options to boot first from the optical drive, the only way I can load the recovery disk is by physically unplugging the harddrive.
When I try to repair Vista with System Recovery Options, it cannot find an OS and can't seem to recognize the harddrive after it's plugged back in. I have both the motherboard driver disk and a USB drive with the harddrive's setup program, but System recovery can't load the drivers.
Finally, when I open up the command prompt and run chkdsk /r, the error message I get is: "The type of the file system is NTFS. Cannot lock current drive. Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected."
Any idea why it refuses to boot or recognize the existing OS on the harddrive? At this point even a clean reinstall would be fine, but the install disk also can't find the harddrive.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
I recently purchased a new motherboard after my old one died. I can't get my Vista running on it again.
I have a SATA harddrive with Vista Ultimate x32 installed on it. When I boot the machine, I get the standard Windows Error screen. I've inserted the Vista recovery disk in the optical drive, but even after changing the BIOS options to boot first from the optical drive, the only way I can load the recovery disk is by physically unplugging the harddrive.
When I try to repair Vista with System Recovery Options, it cannot find an OS and can't seem to recognize the harddrive after it's plugged back in. I have both the motherboard driver disk and a USB drive with the harddrive's setup program, but System recovery can't load the drivers.
Finally, when I open up the command prompt and run chkdsk /r, the error message I get is: "The type of the file system is NTFS. Cannot lock current drive. Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected."
Any idea why it refuses to boot or recognize the existing OS on the harddrive? At this point even a clean reinstall would be fine, but the install disk also can't find the harddrive.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!