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| Thread ID: 108985 | 2010-04-19 08:49:00 | Vista gives BSOD on startup - safe mode not working | Sir Prospect (14735) | Press F1 |
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| 878176 | 2010-04-20 08:27:00 | Progress Update: Chkdsk finally finished, and gave me a page full of things that it has fixed. I restarted the computer, and tried to run windows normally - Failed. So did safe mode. I ran the recovery disk and tried system restore again, system restore nearly finished, and then gave an error saying "Catastrophic error." Ive started to run the chkdsk again. Help? Speedygonzales, thanks, im running Ubuntu from a livecd though, so maybe if I partitioned the HDD, installed Windows again, transferred the files, and delete the corrupted partition, everything would be all right? Thats just my logical thinking. BTW, did I mention im trying to cram 75gb of stuff into 16gb of backup storage :devil. So reformatting the disk is LAST option for me |
Sir Prospect (14735) | ||
| 878177 | 2010-04-20 08:53:00 | Just chuck the vista dvd in go to setup delete the vista partition / recreate it, then format the vista partition then reinstall If you partition it, its going to format it. And you'll have to format it to hopefully fix the corrupt files (hopefully the hdd isnt corrupt). Or you'll have to replace it |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 878178 | 2010-04-20 09:28:00 | I agree with Speedy, I think the system files are just to corrupt to repair. I think you would need to back up your files first, with your ubuntu to a USB drive. Then format reinstall |
radium (8645) | ||
| 878179 | 2010-04-20 09:30:00 | Progress Update: Chkdsk finally finished, and gave me a page full of things that it has fixed. I restarted the computer, and tried to run windows normally - Failed. So did safe mode. I ran the recovery disk and tried system restore again, system restore nearly finished, and then gave an error saying "Catastrophic error." Ive started to run the chkdsk again. Help? Same thing happened to my step son his hard drive had failed was showing similar to what your getting, sys restore nearly finished then gave the catastrophic fail that you got. Put new hard drive in ran sys restore disks again all good now |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 878180 | 2010-04-22 06:12:00 | I re-did startup repair, it said that some drivers maybe corrupt, so I did a F8, and enabled boot logging, I have the boot log file if that helps, ive also got a file called MEMORY.DMP from c:/windows if that helps... I cant upload the .txt file for some reason? Il upload somewhere and provide link if you want, what uploader would you prefer? |
Sir Prospect (14735) | ||
| 878181 | 2010-04-22 06:15:00 | The memory . dmp is a crash file you cant read it without tools / or a program . See if this will tell you the cause ( . nirsoft . net/utils/blue_screen_view . html" target="_blank">www . nirsoft . net) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 878182 | 2010-04-22 06:27:00 | I got this from the program that you advised Attached file: screenshot_of_memory_txt_file.jpg (www.imagef1.net.nz) (106 KB) |
Sir Prospect (14735) | ||
| 878183 | 2010-04-22 06:37:00 | Is that it?? It didnt say what was causing it?? I would say its stuffed. You've tried everything nothing has worked | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 878184 | 2010-04-22 09:42:00 | If you want to upload it, or email it, PM me and I'll run it through the correct program that MS supply, I have all the program, symbols etc all setup in a workshop PC, just have to load in the dmp file. May or may not bring up any more info. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 878185 | 2010-04-23 06:49:00 | Thanks for your help guys, ive resigned to the fact that the only viable option is to reformat the HDD and perform a clean install of Vista (Adding Linux in the mix:thumbs: ) Thanks for your help guys (Especially Speedy Gonzales and Wainuitech) you guys are awesome!!! P.S. on a 465gb HDD, 3 partitions of 120gb - Vista 80gb - Linux 264gb - Personal Files, Will 120gb be enough for Vista, and its hideous bloatware? |
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