alexanderH
09-21-2007, 02:43 PM
Hey guys, just wanted to let y'all know of a little problem I had with vista today.
I moved everything into the new tower, not a problem. Never has been and never should be. But upon firing the new beats up Vista thought it would be good to go to the windows loading screen and blue-screen of death to a restart. Upon quick diagnosis I found that the error was Boot-disk error. Windows obviously tries to con you into a repair operation or a quick format.
Do NOT be tempted to do either of these things as you can screw with your computer worse than it is at its current state.
So Unplug your drives once the machine is off. Give it about a minute. Plug everything back in. Boot to the Bios menu make sure all your boot orders are good to go. Save and exit. When it restarts boot into safe-mode. Network diagnostic with safe mode will crash, as will command prompt with safe mode. However try one of these two options first. As it seems to clean things up nicely. If your system crashes upon a boot into command prompt safe mode or network safe mode then boot into Safe mode next.
Do a quick-run through of virus scanning just for good-safe measure. Then shut the system down. DO NOT restart. When the system is fully shut-down Start the system up in Normal mode. Your computer should be working perfectly fine.
So a quick heads up. Windows Boot-disk error under Vista is not ALWAYS accurate. My example is a good relatively easy way to test to see if it is correct in your instance.
Hope this helps any who have this issue and that people understand you cannot always believe what you read, or see. God damn vista.
-Cheers everyone
-Alexanderh
I moved everything into the new tower, not a problem. Never has been and never should be. But upon firing the new beats up Vista thought it would be good to go to the windows loading screen and blue-screen of death to a restart. Upon quick diagnosis I found that the error was Boot-disk error. Windows obviously tries to con you into a repair operation or a quick format.
Do NOT be tempted to do either of these things as you can screw with your computer worse than it is at its current state.
So Unplug your drives once the machine is off. Give it about a minute. Plug everything back in. Boot to the Bios menu make sure all your boot orders are good to go. Save and exit. When it restarts boot into safe-mode. Network diagnostic with safe mode will crash, as will command prompt with safe mode. However try one of these two options first. As it seems to clean things up nicely. If your system crashes upon a boot into command prompt safe mode or network safe mode then boot into Safe mode next.
Do a quick-run through of virus scanning just for good-safe measure. Then shut the system down. DO NOT restart. When the system is fully shut-down Start the system up in Normal mode. Your computer should be working perfectly fine.
So a quick heads up. Windows Boot-disk error under Vista is not ALWAYS accurate. My example is a good relatively easy way to test to see if it is correct in your instance.
Hope this helps any who have this issue and that people understand you cannot always believe what you read, or see. God damn vista.
-Cheers everyone
-Alexanderh