Vista not booting

T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S.

USB stick? Sounds good. There was no original Vista disk but, when my pc was new, I was advised to create Restore Discs (2 are needed for a full restore). I have used the discs a couple of times since the purchasing the my pc. If I slot the first disc in will the option to repair be displayed? I know - this is something that I can easily check but whenever I have inserted the discs I have always performed a full restore...

Lucero_2

No it's unlikely. To boot from USB you need a vista install disk (or at least the ISO). What happens if you try safe mode? (sorry, not read the whole thread yet).

TakeThis

Lucero wrote: »

No it's unlikely. To boot from USB you need a vista install disk (or at least the ISO). What happens if you try safe mode? (sorry, not read the whole thread yet).

Next time, read the thread before interjecting.

Lucero_2

TakeThis wrote: »

Next time, read the thread before interjecting.

Sir, yes Sir

EDIT: Oh wait, as I thought, no one's actually suggested safe mode yet.

TakeThis

Lucero wrote: »

Sir, yes Sir

EDIT: Oh wait, as I thought, no one's actually suggested safe mode yet.

So write your guide detailing what you want the OP to do in Safe Mode.

Your post just showed bad manners and poor judgement more than anything else.

Lucero_2

TakeThis wrote: »

So write your guide detailing what you want the OP to do in Safe Mode.

Your post just showed bad manners and poor judgement more than anything else.

Jeez, if advising someone to boot from USB and asking if they have the original Vista disk is bad manners I'd hate to have a sunday lunch at your house, I normally have my elbows on the table

Firstly, I just want to know if he can boot in to safe mode. Hit F8 during power on and choose (safe mode with networking) for me. Let me know if it boots ok.

TakeThis

Lucero wrote: »

Jeez, if advising someone to boot from USB and asking if they have the original Vista disk is bad manners I'd hate to have a sunday lunch at your house, I normally have my elbows on the table

Firstly, I just want to know if he can boot in to safe mode. Hit F8 during power on and choose (safe mode with networking) for me. Let me know if it boots ok.

If he had the original Vista disk he wouldn't need to boot from USB at all.
Also to suggest that creating a Vista Recovery USB is more simple than creating a Boot disc is just bizarre.
I really didn't see the point of your Flickr picture when I linked to a far better pictorial guide.

So, your post just seemed a bit brash and ill advised.

Never mind, we'll move on.

Lucero_2

Ahh, I'll tell you why I'm confused. It's because your post points him towards the Startup Repair from the Vista Windows Recovery Environment. In actual fact, you've just linked to the normal Vista Start up sequence which details how to perform a repair, the same as everybody sees when Vista is loaded. It's not a specific recovery environment, it's the normal Vista environment but which allows you to repair start up issues.

Creating a bootable Vista USB is dead easy and something you can always keep handy, when blank CDs are not available.

Either way, If the Vista disk or ISO are not available, booting to Safe Mode is the next logical step (bar his own recovery CDs).

TakeThis

Lucero wrote: »

Ahh, I'll tell you why I'm confused. It's because your post points him towards the Startup Repair from the Vista Windows Recovery Environment. In actual fact, you've just linked to the normal Vista Start up sequence which details how to perform a repair, the same as everybody sees when Vista is loaded. It's not a specific recovery environment, it's the normal Vista environment but which allows you to repair start up issues.

Creating a bootable Vista USB is dead easy and something you can always keep handy, when blank CDs are not available.

Either way, If the Vista disk or ISO are not available, booting to Safe Mode is the next logical step (bar his own recovery CDs).

In actual fact... it is the Vista Recovery Environment.

No one sees that screen when they start Vista. That is just nonsense.

You can enter the Environment from within Vista or from a Vista disc.
Using the Vista disc just ensures that the machine has clean system files from which to source.

Stop the bluff and bluster, it is not helping the OP.

Slow down and read what has gone before. If you have something useful to add, then great.
But so far, you are just adding confusion.

Lucero_2

TakeThis wrote: »

snip.

Sorry, you are just plain wrong. The guide you linked to, the first two pictures (bar the boot from CD) are the normal, "what everyone sees", retail or OEM Vista installation, either from disc or not. Nothing "recovery specific" about it. It's what you choose on the second screen that matters. The guide itself isn't even called "recovery environment" instead it talks about the repair options, opitons found using the standard, Vista installer, not some sort of "God Mode" recovery environment. Startup Repair is just an option chosen instead of upgrade or clean install, nothing more.

Only after you choose to "repair" does it enter the recovery environment.

I've already "added" that I want to know what happens when booting from Safe Mode. Something that should have been asked ages ago.