Can somebody PLEASE help

GeoffX

If it's happening with different brands of disk then it's likely that the drive itself is failing. The last firmware ( the piece of software built into the drive ) update for it appears to have been in July 2006, so I'd guess that you've had it quite a while. You could try opening the drive and cleaning the rails that the laser's carriage rides on, but it'd been simpler just to pay the £15 or so that a new drive would cost - presuming that it's not a notebook drive. They're easy to install, you'd just need to determine whether it's uses IDE or SATA to connect to the motherboard. The connectors are easy to differentiate.

Donnie

indierocker85 wrote: »

OK, I did have 1 sucessful (or so I thought) burn of the vista recovery image using ImgBurn, however this is the error when it gets past the product key stage at the beginning

"Windows cannot open the required file E:\Sources\install.wim. The file does not exist. Make sure all files requried for installation are available and restart. Error Code: 0x80070002"

Concerning the disc you have created; If you pop the disc into a drive, what is contained on the disc?

indierocker85

GeoffX wrote: »

If it's happening with different brands of disk then it's likely that the drive itself is failing. The last firmware ( the piece of software built into the drive ) update for it appears to have been in July 2006, so I'd guess that you've had it quite a while. You could try opening the drive and cleaning the rails that the laser's carriage rides on, but it'd been simpler just to pay the £15 or so that a new drive would cost - presuming that it's not a notebook drive. They're easy to install, you'd just need to determine whether it's uses IDE or SATA to connect to the motherboard. The connectors are easy to differentiate.

I have updated the firmware now, and yes, I did buy it in 2006 so that's probably right. It's now updated though

Donnie

Also, you are not creating the Recovery Disc to which I linked. Yours appears to be a disc created from a Microsoft Digital River download.

The correct details should be:

I 14:33:30 Source File: C:\Users\MOD\Documents\Vista_Recovery_Disc.iso
I 14:33:30 Source File Sectors: 61,675 (MODE1/2048)
I 14:33:30 Source File Size: 126,310,400 bytes
I 14:33:30 Source File Volume Identifier: 2007.11.03_2329
I 14:33:30 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 2007.11.03_2329
I 14:33:31 Source File Implementation Identifier: Microsoft IMAPI v1.0
I 14:33:31 Source File File System(s): ISO9660 (Bootable), Joliet, UDF (1.02)

indierocker85

Sorry Donnie, could you please post the link again so I can verify. Thank you.

Donnie

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indierocker85

Donnie wrote: »

Concerning the disc you have created; If you pop the disc into a drive, what is contained on the disc?

A folder called "boot" and within this there are 3 files titled

bcd
boot.sdi
bootfix

And a second folder called sources, with one file in it called "boot.wim"

And a third file called bootmgr

Donnie

indierocker85 wrote: »

A folder called "boot" and within this there are 3 files titled

bcd
boot.sdi
bootfix

And a second folder called sources, with one file in it called "boot.wim"

And a third file called bootmgr

What size is the disc?

Did you follow the guide in my first post in order to repair your system?

indierocker85

The drive is blank, so a repair isn't really an option now

Donnie

indierocker85 wrote: »

The drive is blank, so a repair isn't really an option now

I meant on the 27th of September or at any time since then.