Bootrec /rebuildbcd, Successfully Scanned Windows Installations
Sep 11, 2009
I have both a SATA drive and IDE drive. Vista is installed on my SATA drive. But my SATA drive is labeled Drive E, and my IDE drive is Drive C. Because of this I can not boot from my SATA drive "E". When I do a bootrec /rebuildbcd I get this msg. Successfully scanned Windows installations. Total identified Windows installations: 0. I have tried all the commands associated with Bootrec. Right now I must keep installations disc installed in my DVD drive to boot.
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Oct 19, 2008
is there a possibility to shorten countdown (Timer) from 30 to 10 sec in "Windows did not start successfully" Menu via Registry?
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Mar 23, 2008
I have a dual boot setup where I boot from the first HD and start XP/Vista. Vista is installed on a separate disk. I don't use XP at all and want to remove that disk, but then I need to make the Vista disk bootable. The Vista install is on a raid volume. I googled a little bit and found some information about bootrec and tried to boot from the DVD and tried /fixboot, but nothing happens. When I load the recovery console it doesn't display any Vista installations, so I wasn't very surprised that bootrec failed. I then proceeded to load the driver for the raid controller, but still no installations are displayed... Is there a simple way to make a disk bootable for Vista - on a raid volume...?
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May 13, 2010
In a fit of stupidity I installed Ubuntu on my laptop, and went with dual boot, but it just would not see my WiFi router regardless of what I tried, so got rid of it following some online advice, using the bootrec.exe/fixmbr command, which now allows me to boot straight into Vista. However, if you look at the pic attached you will see I have a huge lump of free space 41.64gb free space which I can't use for anything. Is there a way for me to re-combine the 41.64gb free space with the C: drive again, the options allowed are displayed in the pic, also there is another slice of the drive 5.37gb which I'd also like to be able to use.
I'm not sure I've made my self clear on what I'd like to acheive, which is to bring both of theses slices back in to the C: drive. On right clicking the 5.37gb drive the only option is Help, as neither of theses slices has a drive letter I don't see how I can do anything to them. The only options I have for the 41.64gb free space seems to be to make a simple volume (not sure what that actually means) or delete the partition. I'd like to get back to how it was before I installed Ubuntu, IE a C: & S: with no more partitions, preferably without having to re-install Vista. for clarity I've cut and pasted the options for each slice of the drive below the relevant slice
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Feb 23, 2009
i got vista installed in AHCI sata mode i got xp installed in IDLE sata mode when i tried to boot up vista, it tries to boot up xp instead and bsod occured i used vista eRecovery i typed bootrec.exe /fixboot and it didnt work it still tries to boot into xp, i typed bootrec /scanos , it only scanned my D:Windows XP OS only.......
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Mar 23, 2008
nearly everytime i start my pc i get the defender has not scanned for 11-15 days like today i was working this morning fired it back up tonight and it says defnder has not scanned for 10 days yet it was scanned yesterday quick and full scan as this problem happens every other day
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Sep 25, 2008
My old computer has Windows XP. My new one has Windows Vista Home Premium x32.
When I scanned photos with XP on my HP1200 printer/scanner in Preview I could enlarge the photos. With Vista can't seem do that. Am I missing something here? I can scan in Paint or in Windows Photo Gallery, but in neither can I enlarge the photo.
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Mar 23, 2008
I scanned documents from my Lexmark scanner and sent them to a folder under Documents. Now when I try to open, it tells me Microsoft Works Word is unable to open. This also happens to docs saved from Print Artist which is compatible w/Vista. I can open the docs under Corel Snapfire,but I am only a trial period with them.
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Mar 23, 2008
I don't know what's wrong. I've scanned and defragmented my system (more than once,) I've deleted some files (including some cookies, temporary internet files and my history) and I've rebooted a few times. Yet, the system still keeps thrashing. Could it be an unknown virus? Should I downgrade to Windows XP? BTW, I've had this laptop for 10 months.
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Mar 23, 2008
I recently tried to upgrade from Vista Basic to Vista Premium but the
activation key didn't work. So I recovered Vista Basic from the windows.old
file but there is still a corrupt version of Vista Premium on my hard disk.
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Nov 13, 2009
My Dad has a laptop running Windows Vista and he is forever installing stupid programs which he then gets me to remove as they have messed up his computer in some way. With this in mind, I was wondering if there is a way that I can somehow put a block on him installing new programs on Windows?
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Jan 12, 2009
Backup did not complete successfully. I am running Business Vista 32bit on a HP Compaq desktop with 3 GB of RAM and 100GB hard disk drive. Over the past two months I have had my document folder backed up to a W2K Server folder-automatically. Last week, I got the following error message: "The backup did not complete successfully. A shadow copy could not be created for the following reasons: Incompatible version of the serializing package (0x81070724)."
I went to another Business Vista computer on the same network, and backed up to the same Server folder (Userbackups) without any problems. I am not interested in Acronis True Image 2009. I would like to continue using the automatic backup feature that came with Vista.
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Nov 2, 2009
A free Microsoft tool is available for download, designed to resolve failed installations of the second service pack for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Labeled the System Update Readiness Tool, the utility comes in handy in various scenarios when updates can no longer be integrated on top of Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 SP1. An illustrative example of a glitch end users might stumble upon is a failed install of either Windows Vista Service Pack 2 or Windows Server 2009 SP2 accompanied by the following error code: 80070490. More Vista SP2 Failed Installations Fix Tool Available - Resolve code 80070490 errors-Softped
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Mar 11, 2010
I went to the System Restore and chose "restore system files and settings from a restore point".
Computer brought up the most recent restore date, which was earlier this morning.
Told it to restore.
After a while, it brought up the following message:
System Restore did not complete successfully
Details: An unspecified error occurred during system restore
You might want to restore again with a different restore point
I tried the date before this one. Same message occurred. NOTE: This has not always been the case. My computer has been able to restore in the past.
Did something corrupt the system? What do you think the problem is? And more importantly . . . how do I fix it. Can't leave the computer unable to restore.
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Apr 16, 2008
if the Shutdown sequence does not complete successfully, and the computer has to be manually powered off, Vista is not able to recover. It will remain on the start up screen with sliding green bars forever. I have tried the following:
- boot to safe mode: safe mode works, but normal start-up after that still hangs
- system restore: system restore works, but even after restoring normal start-up hangs
- system repair with help of installation DVD: is not able to repair, reports root cause not determined
The only option has been to reinstall Vista (from safe mode, new install) and then copy documents etc. from windows.old directory. I have now done this 3 times, as after the first two installations there was a freeze in the shutdown and I had to manually power off (there probably was a problem with installing some of the device drivers after the actual Vista installation, but I cannot point a single cause, because it happened at different times during different installations)..........
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Mar 18, 2009
I am having repeated problems with a new Toshiba Laptop that, regrettably, has Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit.:mad: The computer is so new that I am still in the process of installing all of my applications and tools. I finished installing Office 2007 and then came the problems. NOTHING would install. For example, I triied to install the 64-bit version of iTunes and it started, asked if I wanted to RUN it, and when I selected RUN, nothing happened. It ran for a few moments and then just stopped. I tried to run the 32 bit version and it went all the way to the point of telling me there was a 64-bit version and was I sure I wanted to install the 32 bit version. In other words, Vista was willing to install the 32 bit version but not the 64 bit. I then tried to install Snagit, and while installing Snagit, I got the
following error:
"*Internal Error 2908. {32C6FEA0-576F-4661-9304-82BB4BFF390C}*" and then
"*Internal Error 2908. {49190E7C-167E-4702-B628-4D69B80A8C69}*" Plus another 50 or 60 keys with the same error.
THEN, "*Error 1406. Could not write value RegOwner to key Products]81D19995889ABA541BFBA5EDE646DCF3InstallProperties*"
I tried to hit _Ignore__and then _Retry_, but they did not work. Have had to _ABORT_. After some research I tried to reinstall the Installer by renaming some old components and then reinstalling. I then tried to reinstall Windows Installer for Vista 64 v4.5, file name "*Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x64.msu*". Despite the fact that this is supposed to be the right one for 64bit Vista, the RESULT: "The update does not apply to your system." I then followed the process to reset registry permissions. The first attempt used the subinacl, which I realize is for the 32-bit keys, but I found few options.
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Mar 23, 2008
I have a problem on my x64 Vista that I've had ever since I started using it. I was never able to find a solution for it even after googling the problem for months. First I will list my specs as I suspect that the problem might be hardware related. the scenario is, whenever I install anything big (such as a recent game or a software suite), my available memory slowly decreases until I have about 20 MB left (96-98% utilization) out of my 4GB!!!. This results in my computer freezing up during any install that is larger than a 1 CD install. And when it does, I can't do anything on the computer...it took me 5 or so minutes to force close firefox with 3 tabs open just now because I was installing a game.
Needless to say it has been nothing buy annoying. Sure it's not critical, but it would be nice if I could get rid of this problem. I never had this problem on 32-bit Vista (with 2GB or RAM). Just a quick note that this problem also occurred when I installed XP x64 (that's why I think it could be incompatible hardware of some sort). I have also reverted to factory clock settings on CPU and RAM, but no luck, plus my OC is stable...my computer never crashes, not even when the memory was maxed out.
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Feb 17, 2009
Bought a 750 gig Hard Drive in September and haven?t had problem with it until now. I?m about to install a fresh copy of window vista and have backed up everything that?s on the 750gig to an external HDD (no problems there), but when I?ve come to format the 750 gig Hard Drive I?ve notched that it stayed on 99% for a while and in computer management, its showing up as raw, even after the format, I?ve now deleted the partition, re-created it and get the message ?the format did not complete successfully? and then get ? you need to format disk drive D: before you can use it? with the option to format which I choose but even if I try to format it, I get the message ?windows was unable to complete the format?.
Even though I?ve not had any previous problems with the drive, as its worked fine, when I installed the drive when I was using Windows XP, I used partition magic to try and format the drive it and even that didn?t work. So am I right in thinking that there?s a problem with this drive or should I try the Windows Vista Dvd and see if formats in that before I RMA it? Btw the drive in questions is a Western Digital 750GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache - OEM Green Power
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Sep 23, 2009
So I've read so many pages all around the web about this problem, with no explainable reason (no updates or installations) I booted up yesterday to find that after login my desktop was black with only my cursor visible. I wait some 5 or 6 minutes and the desktop appears but explorer.exe is slower than slow and takes the same amount of time to action any click. Painstakingly, I went through msconfig and disabled everything, one by one I re-enabled each item, rebooted and tested the results. Rinse and repeat for every process. All worked fine until I came across 'Shell Hardware Detect'. If this process is enabled then I get the error described above.
So a cursory search around the web doesn't seem to yield many resolutions to this problem. I only seem to be able to find similar issues on Win XP SP2 - however i'm running Vista Premium X64 SP2. I'm angling towards SP2 as ever since I installed it I've noticed a few bugs. Typically, searching on Microsoft's support website the term Shell Hardware Detection yields nothing whatsoever. Anyone have any ideas how I can get this process functioning properly again?
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Dec 13, 2008
I have re-installed windows vista on my machine and when i boot up it shows 2 vista installations... How do I get rid of the original so that it boots into vista without the boot manager message ?
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Mar 7, 2009
This is the first time I have used the backup in Vista. It was set to backup Document files and appeared to go thru adding files to disk then message received that backup was not completed successfully with error message ccess is denied 0x80070005
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Feb 15, 2009
I am running Windows Microsoft Home Premium. My weekly scheduled system backup has been failing since mid December 2008. The message I get is: "The backup did not complete successfully. An error occurred. The following information might help you resolve the error: Access is denied. (0x80070005)"
This failure is soon followed by my ZoneAlarm anti-virus software picking up on "Exploit.Java.ByteVerify" I delete this "virus" as per instructions. I have manually intiated a backup which also fails. I have used restore points dated before this problem began, to no avail. I have Googled looking for solutions, and have found similar, but not identical problems. And I am not technically informed enough to try a solution if the problem does not exactly match mine.
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May 17, 2009
I just bought a brand new 1TB external hard drive to backup my computer with. verytime I try to back it up, after fifteen seconds I get an error msg saying:
"The backup copy did not complete successfully." "A shadow copy could not be created for the following reasons There is not enough space on the disk (0x80070070)"
I am only using about 200GB of my computers space and I am pretty sure 1TB is enough space. When I start the backup, It says it is sending it to my J drive (which is my external)
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Mar 23, 2008
I cannot add any new hardware on Vista Home Premium. Whenever I connect a new hardware (USB memory stick, DV camera, anything basically) Vista won't run the Add Hardware wizard and if I manually select "Add Hardware" from Control Panel I get a pop-up window saying "Cannot run two device installations" and it says another device installation is underway. However, I have checked all possibilities (hidden and non-hidden) from Device Central in Normal and Safe Mode and removed all the devices that were not working properly (a Bluetooth dongle that was apparently not vista compatible) and the problem still exists. Googling for this I found a few postings that were for XP, and relating to deleting a registry key, but those reg keys are not in Vista.
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May 12, 2010
If you have installed Windows Mail on a Windows 7 computer,yesterday's update contains a KB978542 patch which changes msoe.dll so it won't run on Windows 7. I had warned about these types of issues when Win7 was first released. Microsoft claims it was done for security=20 reasons, see To get it working again, replace the new non-working copy of msoe.dll in Windows 7 with a copy of the new patched version of msoe.dll from a Vista machine.=20
Note: I ran into permissions issues when trying to delete the = non-working msoe.dll, so rather than fighting that, I renamed the Win7 Windows Mail directory to "Windows Mail-X", then I copied and pasted the Windows Mail directory from the Vista machine. I suspect that Windows Mail will = become less and less compatible with Win7 as time goes along.=20
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Mar 8, 2009
Running Vista on an HP...When I get the pop up to compact the mail I click OK and it gets about 3 quarters of the way thru and I get the message Windows Mail has stopped working and Windows is searching for an answer. The answer was DEP (Data Execution Protection)was shutting it down to protect my computer..What's the problem??? Norton internet Security up to date and nothing found with complete system scan..Vista up to date as well.
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Jul 29, 2009
I am running Windows Vista Premium Home SP1. When I boot my computer, Windows Defender doesn't start automatically. It works fine if I start it manually. I have never run Windows OneCare, MSCONFIG shows it set to start, the Windows Defender service is set to automatic and Tools | Options has all the checkboxes checked.
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Aug 19, 2008
I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition Dutch Version, updated with SP1 and all the patches/updates until today. However, I have encountered two problems lately, that might be related. During one of the last Windows update sessions, one of the recommended updates was KB940157: Windows Search 4.0 for Windows Vista for x64-systems (11,8MB).
The update downloaded succesfully, created a restore point, but then during installation of Search 4.0, windows update stops and announces an update fail error:
Failed: 1 update
Errorcode: 800F0900
I've been googling this particular error code in combination with KB940157, but it doesn't bring up any entries. Then later on, I discovered that when I go into the Windows Components window (via Control Panel, Add/remove software), the entire windows stays blank (first it says "Wait a few moments..."). This only lasts a few seconds then shows a complete empty window.
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Jul 29, 2009
There are discussions on this general subject but no aparent resolution. About two months ago I was sometimes prevented from opening photo attachments on some emails received from the same party and sometimes could open them. By this I mean, I would click on the paperclip where a list of photos would appear and I'd click on on photo and I'd get a message saying: "Windows cannot find file name (photo captions used by sender).jpg. Make sure your typed the name correctly and then try again." Well, of course I didn't type the file name; the sender did. I could click on the save attachments, and once saved to a folder I could open them from the folder. I forwarded the mail to others, and they report no problems in viewing the photos. I can also view the photos in the email itself, but it would be necessary to scan up and down and from left to right to view the whold photo and the caption would not appear.
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Feb 25, 2009
Just had this in my RSS Feed, thought it would be interesting. Announcing the Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 RC - Windows Vista Team Blog - The Windows Blog Quote: This week we are announcing that Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has hit an important milestone in development: Release Candidate (RC).
Starting today, the RC of SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 will be available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers to test prior to final release. In the very near future, we will be making the RC broadly available for anyone to download and test. You can expect another blog post from me when that happens. SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 include updates that have been delivered since the release of SP1, as well as support for new types of hardware and emerging standards. As we’ve described since we first talked about SP2, we’ve taken your feedback into account when developing SP2. Specifically, we expect SP2 to continue the security benefits of both products and simplify deployment for our customers. For an outline of changes in SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, check out the notable changes document. We are planning to release SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 in the second quarter of 2009.
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Sep 18, 2008
I have an acer 3055WXMi laptop running Windows Vista home basic 32bit. I hav no 3rd party firewall, only other security software i have is AVG anti-virus
Every time i start up my laptop windows firewall fails 2 start, windows security alerts comes up.
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