Unable to boot into Vista

Laura_Browne · 23 April 2011 at 2:29AM

Hirens? No it just boots up itself. Gonna try BIOS thing you suggested now.

Laura_Browne · 23 April 2011 at 2:31AM

Doing that chamges first boot device to my external HD and second boot device to CD/DVD and third boot device to USB generic-compact

Now what you need me to try?

stilltheone · 23 April 2011 at 2:35AM

Look at the SATA options again.

Laura_Browne · 23 April 2011 at 2:38AM

Still the same.

stilltheone · 23 April 2011 at 2:40AM

Revert to Optimised Defaults....and check again.

stilltheone · 23 April 2011 at 2:40AM

Have you checked to see if eRecovery is working under F10?

Laura_Browne · 23 April 2011 at 2:49AM

Optimised defaults doesn't change anything. The boot order is still the same. Should I change it back to cd first and take the external out of it? Also when would I press F10?

(And it will have to be bed soon)

stilltheone · 23 April 2011 at 2:58AM

Wasn't looking at the Boot order, but the possibility to toggle AHCI/RAID/IDE mode.

Rather than spending days trying to get past this problem, we should look at the caddy/reinstall, but we need to know whether it will be possible to run a clean install of Vista using eRecovery.

Instructions here

Laura_Browne · 23 April 2011 at 3:01AM

Right. Well it doesn't seem to want to let me change the RAID settings for the HD at all. So if we operate on that assumption that we can't do that what happens? Open the tower and take the harddrive out? Won't it infect whatever I plug it into?

stilltheone · 23 April 2011 at 3:07AM

Not if you have a decent anti-malware program installed.

Unable to boot into Vista

Comments

Confirm your email address to Create Threads and Reply

🚀 Getting Started

Categories

Is this how you want to be seen?

Get our FREE Weekly email full of deals & guides - and it’s spam-free