Unable To Boot On System
Nov 15, 2009
I am unable to boot anything on my system. I have a black screen error File: pciidex.sys. When I try to use my restore disk I get a blue screen error Ox0000C1F5. I can not get into any of the Safe modes I just get the black screen error. And I am not able to boot the recovery system using PF11. It seems the only thing I can access is BIOS. I am not worried about saving files at this point. I really just want to restore back to factory settings and avoid needing to spend the money on a new hard drive. Any advise on how to re install with the errors I am receiving?
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Jul 29, 2009
i am new to this forum but i have problem with my system bootup. my system takes too long to boot and it started 3days ago. it takes about 120secs at bootscreen alone. i believe it is not my start up programs as it takes about 3 secs to start up from login page. i donot use any third party bootscreen. normally, my system boots in 30 secs but now i am facing a lot of problem which i do not understand. i have tried all the tutorials in this forum relating to bootup problems but found no luck.
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Mar 23, 2008
I have a problem and can???t find any solution. When I try to start windows (Ultimate) from the original installation DVD (from which is was installed) then I get the " press any key to boot from CD / DVD" command. When I do it, the white bar at the bottom of the screen saying "Windows is loading files". Next is the black screen with the "Microsoft Corporation" and a running green bar at the bottom of the screen. And that???s it. The screen gets black after that and nothing happens. No HDD activity of any kind. I have a Norton Save and Restore CD for my computer which used to work just fine, but also with this CD I am running into the 100% exact same problem. Any bootable CD I have which doesn???t boot directly into Windows Vista is working perfectly. I also can boot from e.g. my old Windows XP CD. And, the Windows (Vista) installation DVD starts without problems at all in my other computer...
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Mar 26, 2008
I have a problem and can???t find any solution. When I try to start windows (Ultimate) from the original installation DVD (from which is was installed) then I get the " press any key to boot from CD / DVD" command. When I do it, the white bar at the bottom of the screen saying "Windows is loading files". Next is the black screen with the "Microsoft Corporation" and a running green bar at the bottom of the screen. And that???s it. The screen gets black after that and nothing happens. No HDD activity of any kind. I have a Norton Save and Restore CD for my computer which used to work just fine, but also with this CD I am running into the 100% exact same problem. Any bootable CD I have which doesn???t boot directly into Windows Vista is working perfectly. I also can boot from e.g. my old Windows XP CD. And, the Windows (Vista) installation DVD starts without problems at all in my other computer... My Windows installation itself is booting without problems from HDD....
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Nov 2, 2009
I am unable to get to bios so I can boot to my cd. I have a 64-bit Vista repair disk, but I am unable to boot to either that or an Acronis rescue disk. What can I try? I've tried every F-1 through F-12 combo I can think of...holding them down, pushing repeatedly, holding esc...holding delete, nothing is working. My screen is black...meaning, it is just like it is when in hibernation,etc. During all of my attempts, it did work once and went to my desktop, but unfortunately I tried to restore my acronis image instead of doing a system restore. how I can get into bios so I can get to my boot menu?
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Jun 13, 2009
The only way I am able to boot his with a political CD/DVD in the drive, wait for the "press any key to boot from CD or DVD" prompt comes up, do not hit any key whatsoever and then the normal user prompt/enter password screen comes up. Additionally if I try to "Safe Mode Boot" I Blue Screen.
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Sep 27, 2008
I have a duel boot on my system, win vista and windows xp. i installed windows vista 1st and then windows xp sp2 but after installing windows xp i am unable to log into windows vista. when i restart it directly starts windows xp rather than showing windows select option
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Jul 1, 2007
i am unable to Dual boot in VistaBy going thru many forums i found that editing Bcdedit will resolve the issue, when i am trying to use the command Bcdedit/create {ntldr} -d "windows Server 2003" in the command prompt its giving error as description required, so iam unable to resolve this issue.
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Nov 2, 2008
I have a Compaq Presario CQ45 106AU laptop. It had Vista 32bit pre installed. I formatted the system and installed Ubuntu but when i tried to recover the system using the recovery DVD's a error pops up. Windows encountered a problem. Unable to communicate with a hardware connected to the system.
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Jun 4, 2009
When I am away for work I cannot always sign onto my laptop because it is not connected to my domain, eventually I resolve this by logging on as a local user then switching to a domain user. This appears to work The domain is controlled by Windows 2003 SBS What am I doing wrong?
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Apr 19, 2009
I've been running Ultimate x64 and had occasional freezing problems. I'm pretty sure those are related to a memory issue. Normally I just have to hard reset the system and everything is fine. But yesterday I had a lock-up, hard reset and somehow the date was changed to 18 Apr, 2066. I obviously couldn't connect to the internet, so I reset the date to 2009 and restarted. No change.
My software subscriptions think they have expired, and I'm at a complete loss here. I require the internet and that software on that system for work and have no idea what to do. I believe as soon as I get the connection up, my subscriptions will talk to their online server friends and all will be fine (hopefully), so that's why this thread is here.
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May 30, 2009
when i tried to create a restore point an error message is being displayed. it says " could not create the scheduled task for the following reason task image is corrupt or has been tampered with (0x80041321)" what does it mean. i am running on vista ultimate x64
pc config
dual core 2.8(intel)
intel 965board
80gb hdd
what i did was under system properties page, i clicked system protection tab on the left side checked the boxes( all system drives ie hard disk drives) and clicked apply then the message i described was popping out and when clicked create also the same message is being displayed.
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Oct 1, 2009
I'm trying to install the new win vista x64 os on to my new hard disk but during the installing ,it keep prompt me with this message " Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation. " The hard disk i uses is Hitachi Deskstar HDS721616PLAT80 ATA/IDE drive
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Mar 10, 2009
I'm using Vista Home Premium. I have a spare 250GB SATA drive, so I thought I'd install XP on that, then dual boot with my original Vista drive (AMD Athlon dual-core at 3 GHz, 4GB RAM, 64 bit Vista Home Premium...when it boots). The XP install seemed to go fine, in that the drive would boot up alone (with the Vista drive disabled). But when I plugged my main Vista drive in, the system would not boot up at all. I would get a Drive Read error. I don't get it. Both drives boot up fine by themselves, but when both are running, neither will boot. Do I need to set one drive's jumpers or something? I don't know SATA drive jumper settings, or if that's even the issue.
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Jul 2, 2008
I am having some problems regarding booting up my Advent laptop, it came pre - installed with Vista home premium. it just wont boot up anymore all i can do is access the bios screen, the handbook it came with gives me information to press F8 to enter system recovery but sadly this does nothing, but make a beep each time i press the key. The laptop is just out of its 12 month guarantee so could be costly to repair. I wonder if any one can shed some light on what i can do to solve this problem.
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Aug 15, 2009
I installed Vista Home Premium and got a nasty hard drive failure error. So I was going to boot from the install CD and get into the Recovery Options in order to run chkdsk on the drive. The system won't boot from CD. It actaully starts booting from the CD but after the loading files step it just boots into the installed Vista environment.
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Feb 6, 2009
I have recently purchased Vista Business and it has been running OK for about a week with some assistance from Microsoft support. This morning I woke up and the system won't boot. I put the Vista disc into the PC and I get a page that comes up called "Install Windows" with 3 selections:Language to Install Time and currency format Keyboard or input method However my mouse and keyboard do not allow me to make the appropriate selectios or click the "next" button to continue.
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Apr 2, 2009
Iam trying to install XP-Proff on HP pavillion desk top , i formated the vista and tryed toinstall xp, system is not booting through the XP Boot able CD, i tried several times to do that, can any one helpme to how toinstall XP in HP pevillion desktop ,ifully formated the Vista verson,
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Apr 23, 2009
I recently install new hdd 500gb seagate, i install windows vista home prem sp1 , when i try to boot the system IT FREEZED on booting on black screen and it shows all the hardware install when put any bootable cd and boot the system, system boots fine, i had same issue with old sansung 80gb hdd, i have to keep the bootable cd in optical drive to boot the system, i also tried reseat the cables from optical drive but did not work, my optical drive works fine after boot in windows
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Mar 26, 2008
I've searched the web extensively, though I came close, I still can't solve my problem: When I've installed vista, the installation have set the boot manager to be on a different disk than the the boot loader. Now, if I want to remove the hard drive containing the boot manager, the system won't load, which is reasonable given these conditions, nonetheless I DO want to remove this hard drive and still be able to boot, therefore I've searched and queried everywhere and done the following: Physically disconnected the hard drive with the boot manager on it (d and boot with the Vista DVD to run startup repair -> this didn't help, the startup repair found the operation system but didn't recognize any problem, when trying to boot the system would not load, the error I'm getting when booting is disk read error occurred press ctrl+alt+del to restart.
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Oct 6, 2009
I have 3 hard drives with assigned characters c, d, f (e drive is cd rom) each drive has only 1 partition. On c there is Vista 32-bit Ultimate, on d there is Vista 64-bit home premium. If I change location of paging file - e.g. Vista Ultimate paging on f, Home paging on c then that operating system does not boot correctly. The OS boot progress bar is displayed but system does not boot (I waited many minutes before reset).
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Jul 29, 2009
My Windows Vista Enterprise has a serious problem. It is unable to find, delete, or create any system restore points. I have not found a way to re-initialize the system restore point process.
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Oct 1, 2009
I've got a problem with my p.c in the fact that it wont boot up. I think i have unintentionally downloaded a virus which more than likey would have caused this. I have Windows vista home basic 32 bit pre-installed on my p.c and it didn't come with any back up/recovery disks. Any solutions on how to get my p.c up and running?
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Jan 19, 2009
Doing some partition work a few days ago, and somehow lost the boot for my main system. D was my main system, as you can see it holds a lot of applications and information, "C" is a fresh install. Question is can I get "D" to reboot, it doesn't show in msconfig/boot. I know I can transfer bit by bit, but its a long winded job, I feel there must be a way to repair reboot. Tried the system disc Repair mode, only shows system on "C". 2 hard discs, "C" and "F" on one drive "D"on the other.
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Jun 30, 2008
I have an hp desktop that came with vista home premium preinstalled. It will not boot up now. So I tried the emrgency recovery disks that I was told to createwhen I first got the computer and they didn't work. I thought I would have to boot from windows vista disks to repair this. No Vista disks came with the computer. My question is can I buy the upgrade SP1 disk to both improve the system and resolve the boot problem or am I forced to get the Full system
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Aug 8, 2008
Im looking for information regarding the best way to configure a dual boot system using Vista Ultimate and XpPro. What is the best way to set up the two 320gig 7200rpm HHD's? Should both hard drive areas be combined and then partitioned or would you recommend one operating system per drive? OS are Vistax64 and XpPro.
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Apr 26, 2008
annoying pop up when the system tray is being loaded at boot up. This is the message. SiSTray has stopped working a problem has arisen .windows will close this program down and if the problem can be resolved windows will let you know. The computer works fine after this window is closed down.
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Jul 8, 2008
I have (or had) Vista Business on my HP Pavilion dv2670br and I also installed opensolaris on it. I had read this article (Vista SP1 won't install on dual-boot systems: Microsoft) before installing the SP with the stand alone file downloaded from MS's website, but since I did not have Enterprise or Ultimate I didn't think I would have problems. Silly me.
Now I do not know if it is the grub loader itself or the fact that opensolaris uses ZFS. I tried going through the steps here: Recovering the Vista Bootloader from the DVD - NeoSmart Technologies Wiki, to no avail. I suspect I will have to go through a very destructive process, but thankfully I won't really lose much since it is a relatively new laptop with very little university work on it.
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Jul 29, 2009
I downloaded a film ( a backup o one of my DVD's it has got scratched and I really wanted to see it as well. Anyway when I did I opened up the video file into windows media player, it asked me to get some rights/ acquisitions to play the file. As the message was coming from windows media player I guess hmm it must be true. Usually I wouldn't if anything asked me to download anything. As it finished windows media message came up with a message to say it was downloaded correctly. So I checked task manager making sure it was actually windows media player and it was. When I tried playing the file it wouldn't play.
Whatever it downloaded hadn't taken effect yet. Then I blue screened. My laptop wouldn't boot up normally. So I tried booting up with " last good configuration" it booted up but I found out what had happened. All my programmes were "corrupted" something to do with the registry according to the 60 pop up messages saying each and every programme had been corrupted.........
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Mar 23, 2008
I bought a new laptop with Vista already installed on it. I want to install XP in a multi boot configuration but get stuck in Disk Management and am unable to proceed from there. I'd like to keep Vista on my laptop, but if it comes down to it I'll need to take it off and put on XP because our work computers run with XP and we do a lot of work on reports and presentations from home and network from home. I can't find the New Partition Wizard to make a space for XP.
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Mar 9, 2008
I have a laptop with a 320 gig hard drive divided into 4 partitions. I am dual booting Xp Professional and Vista Business 32 bit Edition. I plan on upgrading to Ultimate as soon as Microsoft ships it to me. I have 2 partitons for XP, 1 for vista, and 1 as a shared partition that has mydocuments and email settings so that both systems can access them. If I use Complete PC Backup and select all partitions will this backup everything ot a 500 gig external, including the boot records so that if I do oa complete pc restore it will restore it so that my boot menu is restoreed in the event of a hd failure? Also, when I get vista ultimate, I plan on using Bit Locker to encrypt my Vista partition. Will that affect the complete pc backup of that partition or any of the others?
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