I got a kernel missing or corrupt all of the sudden so I had to format and reinstall Vista Business. Im having Lenovo t61 BUT now after 'expanding files' inthe vista installprocessis complete at100% the PC is supposed to reboot, but I get an error saying 'windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase...' Ive read that I might try to install drive controller drivers in the 'load driver' thing.. The problem is that I dont know what file i need!? what driver do I need ? Im trying to install Vista on a partitioned Seagate Momentus [ ST9200420ASG ] i need a SATA Hard Disk Controller or what ? In that case i cant find them... Do they follow the chipset drivers or ?
I'm having a problem installing vista 64 bit or 32 bit after I already had it on my machine. Here is what happened and what I have. I built this machine just 3 weeks ago, mb is gigabyte ep45c-ud3r, e8400, 4 gigs of G.Skill pc 8500, 320gig Samsung sata drive, Samsung cd/dvd burner, and I also have 2 older IDE drives running I think they are 175 gigs each. Do the other day I got a disk with vista ultimate 64 bit and decided to run a clean install, my machine had the 32 bit system of the same.
The 64 bit system began to install and when it gets to the point after you select which drive to install it on goes to the next screen it starts to open files, or extract shows 0% one dot and comes up with this message: "windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase, restart the installation" when I do that same thing happens and now same thing happens with the 32 bit system, I have tried 2 disks for that.
I have burned many DVD (data) on my XP before I switch a computer. Now that I have a Vista x64, the CD drive won't read them. If I use ISOBuster I can see the track and extract them. But if I use Windows Explorer it will prompt me to "prepare blank disc"! Any help? I already finalize the disc and confimred it. Do a hardware diagnostic check and turns out nothing went wrong. By the way, how can I make Vista not look for application if I insert other CD.
My computer will not boot into Windows. I have a 250 GB HDD and a 500 GB HDD. the 250 GB had Vista x64 on it and then I partitioned it with Acronis (after backing it up to the 500 GB HDD) so I could install Windows 7 x64 on the smaller (about 55 GB) partition that I have just made. That didn't work so I reformatted my 250 with Acronis (the backup that I had) and tried to install Win7 on the 250 and just make a small partition from the installation screen. Now when I try to boot up there is just a black screen with a white blinking hash mark in the upper left corner. When I use a boot disk it does show that there is partition on the 250 GB and both Vista and 7 are installed, but for some reason I can't seem to boot to them. Long story short: I want to be able to dual boot to windows vista or windows 7. How do I do that?
I have a Dell Dimension E520, which won?t boot to Windows (Vista), and none of the repair options work:
Startup repair Reports repair fail due to problem with registry
System Restore Reports no restore points available
Windows Complete PC Restore Reports no backups available
Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool No memory problems
Command Prompt. Can?t think of any appropriate command to use here. So I booted with the system DVD (as one would with XP) but the upgrade option has been greyed out. I don?t want to do a clean install. I want to repair the existing installation.
i can no longer boot up my computer as the boot/bcd file is miising or corrupt i found a windows artical on how to fix it and it didnt work ive also tryedd googleing the problem and got many results but none that seem to fit the problem or are helpful what can i do to solve this
I have downloaded the ISO file for Win7, and have burned an install DVD. My intention is to do an upgrade from Vista SP1, but I'm wondering: What is the simplest (best?) way to revert to Vista, if I have to?
I am having a really crappy time trying to install this one program onto my comptuer. I dont understand this error i keep getting. (The error says " Installer user interface mode not supported. Unable to load and to prepare the installer in GUI mode") I am getting really upset and i do need this program installed very badly.
I am upgrading from XP to Vista (on the way to Windows 7). After it completes the compatibility check it starts to copy files. About 20 minutes into the process the upgrade aborts with the following message: "Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration. Installation cannot proceed."
When I try to boot Vista (Home Premium 32bit), the loading screen with the green bar doohicky shows up followed by a black screen with the mouse cursor. It oscillates between "working" and regular cursor but in the end, the computer just restarts and it does that again if I try to boot it. This probably happened because I system restored right before getting this problem, but I'm not absolutely sure. I also got this error message just once or twice in the many times I tried to boot:..........................
I noticed every time I boot up I hear my computer fan speed up (as if the computer were working extra hard). When I check Task Mgr I notice SVCHOST running 30% + cpu at times. I checked the service running and it's the plug & play service.
Vista 64 vs. Vista 32 - Please specify which in the text. At least with the 2 "Home Premium" flavors of Vista they are enough dissimilar that when someone refers to a problem, one might be well advised to specify as Vista64 or Vista32. I have both (on 2 different computers, not dual boot) and although some programs claim to be for "Vista" (sometimes true) they don't specify which Vista.
I have had installation issues with Vista64 which were not seen on Vista32. And even when installation was sucessful on both, there are problems on Vista64 but not Vista32, and occasionally the other way around. I know from experience that a 32 bit vs. 64 bit operating system can give problems. We encountered it in Math modeling when changing from 16 to 32 bit Compilers and Hardware.
I have put a new hard drive in my case, just for a bit of extra storage. It is set to a slave drive but when it is plugged in and i start my computer vista wont boot. I am stumped with this one.
I have a computer that was working very well, but lately when I was working on a important project, there was a power fluctuation for a couple of times (I thought that was normal) but after the last power fluctuation my computer refused to boot up. There seems to be a failure of some kind?..but I need to get the projects back that are still in that disk.
My computer has Vista Home Premium installed but about a couple of weeks ago my computer started to boot up slow (taking about 10 minutes). I couldn't figure out the problem and neither could anybody else so I am going to re-install vista.Is it possible to re-install vista without losing any personal or program data?
I've recently put together a new computer using these parts: I've updated to Vista Ultimate SP1, run multiple disk clean ups, defrags, use CCleaner, clean the registry, defrag the registry, disabled services and have made tweaks according to the guide provided on this website and have minimal startup programs running but my boot times average around 2 minutes. For a new computer with new hardware, this seems unreasonable as many users report boot times between 30-60 seconds. What could be wrong with my computer? On the vista loading screen with the green bar, it goes through about 22 cycles.
I have a Dell Inspiron 530 Desktop and every now and then it won't boot up. I get a black screen with 'Windows Boot Manager' ," Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause."
File: BootBCD Status: 0xc000000f Info: An error occurred while attemping to read the boot config data.
When I boot the PC with the Installation disc, it repairs it and it works until the next time. When I click on the details to see what is to be repaired, this come up:.......
I have windows xp installed right now and I dual booted with vista by re-partitioning my hard drive. After encountering problems with vista I delted the vista partition and resized the xp partition back to it's original size. I am now stuck with the windows vista boot loader which persistantly telling me that the windows vista files are not present etc. etc. Is there any way that I can delted the vista bootloader and go back to using the xp bootloader?
When I reboot my computer through Windows the computer shuts down correctly, but then the monitor remains black and the bios starts beeping out the error code for "VGA not detected". Why would this be? I am forced to press the power button and wait from 5 to 10 minutes to reboot normally. (I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate x64, have an ASUS P6T Deluxe motherboard and a Gigabyte Geforce GTX 280. 800 watts ZION power supply) Is this a BIOS settings or GPU problem? I already reseated the GPU. Could it be a power supply failure?
I have a HP pavilion laptop which came with 64 bit vista ultimate pre-installed. I shrinked the OS partition (160 GB), created new partition (40 GB) for 64 bit windows 7 ultimate. After installation of Windows 7, I cannot see the vista ultimate boot option when I boot my PC. When I boot into Windows 7, I still can see the vista partition. But instead of C: it is now displayed as E: I used the HP Recovery Disc to repair windows vista but I can only see a blank blue screen with the mouse pointer. How can I recover the vista?
I went to turn it on this morning, I just had a black screen showing the following words;
Press F2 to run Press F11 to boot menu Auto detecting PRI Master Atapai CDROM.
It then went to reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key. I went into the BIOS to change the boot order and inserted my Vista home premium 32bit. I then got windows is loading in files. After a short while I got the black start up screen with Microsoft Corporation but after a few seconds it just froze. Moments later it went to a blue screen with white writing part of which said the following; A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED AND WINDOWS HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN TO PREVENT DAMAGE TI YOUR COMPUTER.
My speaker icon in the taskbar has a red cross on it. When I hover my mouse over it, it says "The audio service is not running", if I right click it I get 3 options
I went to my start menu and searched services.msc and checked to see if plug and play, windows audio endpoint builder, and multimedia class scheduler were all set to startup type automatic & all started. they were. so then i go to Windows Audio, right click to properties, and it is stopped. So i click to start it and it says "Windows could not start the Windows Audio service on Local Computer. Error 1079: The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process."
I tried to restore my computer but my restore point is past the point when this issue originated. Also, Conexant Driver is installed and working properly. If I right click on the volume icon with a little red X through it... I can click on Open Volume Mixer, and It says "No Audio Device Installed" Yet, my audio devices are installed.
Right now I have a single 640 gig HDD that everything's on. I've got a laptop too that I'm gonna be taking out on rotations eventually. I wanted to get a new smaller (250GB) HDD and put my Vista on that, so my 640 will be data only (then I could take it with me in an external enclosure and leave the desktop for my mom to use til I come back and collect it). I was gonna DBAN the 640, but I wanted to get the data off of it first- about 170 GB of stuff that I'd rather not lose.
My question is-
Can I install Vista on the smaller drive, boot with that, and access files on the other drive? Would it work if there's another Vista running on the other drive? (both SATA).
My windows Vista Ultimate won't boot up, it only shows a black screen and white mouse pointer after the loading part, right before the windows logo circle appears glowing...i also tried booting from the vista dvd but right after loading files screen another error shows up "windows has encountered a problem communicating with a device connected to your computer" " status:0xc00000e9 info: an unexpected I/O error had occurred".... btw all this happened after the chkdsk utility cheked my disk for about 2 hours say "replacing invalid ID with default ID for file ### for file 9"... how can i work this out?? also, safemod shows me the same black screen with white mouse pointer..
i have a verry annoying problem with my pc. it wont let me boot up in windows, it keeps asking me for my product key even after typing it in several times. i really dont want to purchase a new one for my pc, when i already have one on my laptop which for some reason refuses to work. so i tried to manually solve the problem by booting up in safe-mode to run system restore.on doing so to my suprise i have no recent restore points listed, and i cant manually create one because it wont let me do so in safe mode.
I have 2 SATA 200gb hard drives and one is running vista premium and the other has nothing on it. I wanted to try the windows 7 so can I just install the windows 7 on my other HD and when I shut down my PC will it ask what HD operating system do I wnat to run? Is this how it works?
I figure that since millions of Windows 7 installations on the CPP have been made, not to mention tap build s and tech beta builds, that it is appropriate to ask this question since
a) It involves a former Vista on a dual boot b) MSFT has seen fit to put only one NNTP public group up for Win 7 and it is an Italian one and I don't speak Italian or even drive a Ferrari or Lamborghini or Maserati in Englishd c) Darrell Gorter who has this stuff in his blood is kind enough to frequent the setup group and share his skills.
I like SFC alot and it has solved a lot of problems I have had in the past with my Vistax64 machine. Latest problem is windows won't boot, can't restore, can't repair, can't safe mode, can't go to last known good... If i try to run SFC at the command prompt, i get a message that I have a pending repair, and need to reboot. However, since I cannot boot up into windows, this remains always. Is there a way to work via the command prompt to stop this pending repair, so that I can try the SFC to resolve problems I am experiencing?
When you are installing a new windows after booting from a CD, when it asks you how big in terms of bytes you want it to be, is the number originally there, the biggest it can be (my number was something like 3000000 bytes)? Also, when I look at my C drive in my compter, it says 142 GB free of of 298, which means it totals to be 340 GB, but the box the laptop came with says it has 320 GB total...could this have to do with the confusion about how many MB is in a GB? Because some people say 1024 MB in a GB and so forth. Also I notice on my dell dimension e310 There is this bar blocking a space for a driver, you can see the one for floppy disc on there, but that is blocked my a bar as well. How do you remove them, can it be done only from the inside?
