Vista failing to boot, really don't want to loose work!

[Nielk1]

Blue screen? I only get those now with HW or Driver failure. I say that because I set blue-screens to not auto-reboot and the HW failure ones ignore that setting. I assume most Computer and Windows literate users set Blue Screens not to reboot. I forget how now, but that is what Google is for.

Looks HDD/Driver issues though. Possibly minor corruption. Scan-disk should fix it.

[Psychedelic Rhino]

If all else fails, find a good repair shop.

I'm not impressed with personnel in computer repair shops in the last ten years. Most that I've found is at best guys in their low 20's that maybe have their CompTIA A+. And are also very inexperienced. There might be some older guy who has some experience in the shop, but they don't do the actual work. Back in the late 80's and early 90's, I relied on them for about 50% of my issues, but in the last 15 years haven't needed them at all. If you can't find and fix your problems by researching on the internet, you probably shouldn't be using a PC for anything other than at your job.

[ADMIRAL MANSON]

Blue screen? I only get those now with HW or Driver failure. I say that because I set blue-screens to not auto-reboot and the HW failure ones ignore that setting. I assume most Computer and Windows literate users set Blue Screens not to reboot. I forget how now, but that is what Google is for.

Looks HDD/Driver issues though. Possibly minor corruption. Scan-disk should fix it.

Got HW2?

You could try taking out the bios battery and resetting the ram if thats even possible for a labtop. I dont think itll work but you could try.

[TheJamsh]

I've managed to recover the data, basically i took the laptop apart, got the harddrive out of it and bought a SATA cable, plugged that into the desktop and booted up the desktop.

Windows went through a 2 hour long process of automatically checking and reparing the drive i plugged in, resetting security ID's or something to some 200,000 files and bam, once th4e desktop fired up there were both my partitions, in full working order it seems. Im backing up onto my external right now, hopefully i can just plug it into the laptop and itll work fine, but if not ill do a format and re-install everything. at least i kept the digger launcher

[Ded10c]

If all else fails, find a good repair shop.

I'm not impressed with personnel in computer repair shops in the last ten years. Most that I've found is at best guys in their low 20's that maybe have their CompTIA A+. And are also very inexperienced. There might be some older guy who has some experience in the shop, but they don't do the actual work. Back in the late 80's and early 90's, I relied on them for about 50% of my issues, but in the last 15 years haven't needed them at all. If you can't find and fix your problems by researching on the internet, you probably shouldn't be using a PC for anything other than at your job.

I worked at one near me for a fortnight (work experience, heh) and it was pretty slick going - any problem we were presented was solved within two days at the absolute most. Busy too, for a four-man company.



And TJ, I'm glad your HD looks good - but the most important thing is that the Digger isn't lost

[Nielk1]

Note that from GreenHeart's experience Microsoft just ate your files never to return 95% of them.

[sabrebattletank]

I think you have to install something to get Ubuntu to recognize NTFS drives. Not really sure, haven't done it in a while though. A little terminal command or three I think.

You might try mounting it : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1689289

[-APOCALYPSE-]

ubuntu can read all drive formats without the need of any extras. I use ubuntu on my home server(s) and it mounts NTFS drives perfectly

[ADMIRAL MANSON]

If all else fails, find a good repair shop.

I'm not impressed with personnel in computer repair shops in the last ten years. Most that I've found is at best guys in their low 20's that maybe have their CompTIA A+. And are also very inexperienced. There might be some older guy who has some experience in the shop, but they don't do the actual work. Back in the late 80's and early 90's, I relied on them for about 50% of my issues, but in the last 15 years haven't needed them at all. If you can't find and fix your problems by researching on the internet, you probably shouldn't be using a PC for anything other than at your job.

I worked at one near me for a fortnight (work experience, heh) and it was pretty slick going - any problem we were presented was solved within two days at the absolute most. Busy too, for a four-man company.

I run my own computer repair company and I stay quite busy with life chores and daily things to do in the morning and emails. I think the worst pc i had to fix had 13768 issues to fix. That thing was so slow it took me over 3 weeks to fix everything on it. Wasnt easy without an OS disc.



And TJ, I'm glad your HD looks good - but the most important thing is that the Digger isn't lost

What Digger?

Note that from GreenHeart's experience Microsoft just ate your files never to return 95% of them.

They can be recovered just have to use something like spinrite or something similar.

[squirrelof09]

Just now got home to read this. Although it's been realized already. I find this page useful for bsod's http://www.carrona.org/bsodindx.html#0x00000024

[sabrebattletank]

ubuntu can read all drive formats without the need of any extras. I use ubuntu on my home server(s) and it mounts NTFS drives perfectly

Huh. I remember having to do a little basic terminal stuff not a year ago.

It can read/right now automatically? It'll auto-mount? Neat.

[Zero Angel]

ubuntu can read all drive formats without the need of any extras. I use ubuntu on my home server(s) and it mounts NTFS drives perfectly

Huh. I remember having to do a little basic terminal stuff not a year ago.

It can read/right now automatically? It'll auto-mount? Neat.

Well, normally you would go into 'computer' and click the drive icon to mount it. I'm not 100% certain about what it does with NTFS drives that are flagged as 'dirty' (which in windows would cause an automatic disk check on boot), but I think it may not mount them and you would have to run ntfsfix to perform basic corrections on the drive to allow it to be mounted.

[Nielk1]

Note that from GreenHeart's experience Microsoft just ate your files never to return 95% of them.

They can be recovered just have to use something like spinrite or something similar.

You have just proved you understand NOTHING.

I know exactly how one can recover files, hell I have now written a driver to load a file system into the Linux kernel. So don't try to say I don't. This comment had NOTHING to do with actual recovery processes and yet you just HAD TO post something saying I was wrong. You are not fooling anyone. Just go away, thus far your posts on such subject manners have just been annoying and condescending.