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Vista not booting

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  • T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S.
    T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. Posts: 309 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    Oh - I thought you wanted clarification of what happened re the corrupt files. Yes - after attempting to load the drivers, Vista was displayed in the dialogue box. I think it was shortly after that I chose "Start up repair" (or something like that) and "can't find anything to repair" was displayed
  • TakeThis
    TakeThis Posts: 2,909 Forumite
    T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. wrote: »
    Oh - I thought you wanted clarification of what happened re the corrupt files. Yes - after attempting to load the drivers, Vista was displayed in the dialogue box. I think it was shortly after that I chose "Start up repair" (or something like that) and "can't find anything to repair" was displayed

    Ok. Thank you.

    So, let's go through the same process, but this time go directly to Command Prompt. Command Prompt in the Windows Recovery Environment in order to run sfc /scannow
  • T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S.
    T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. Posts: 309 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    Just tried the Command Prompt Scannow - "Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operations"
    (most of the drivers seemed to load. That media and sataraid failled to install.)
    Thanks
    T
  • TakeThis
    TakeThis Posts: 2,909 Forumite
    T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. wrote: »
    Just tried the Command Prompt Scannow - "Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operations"
    (most of the drivers seemed to load. That media and sataraid failled to install.)
    Thanks
    T

    ??? ...are you choosing to 'Load Drivers' again?
  • T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S.
    T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. Posts: 309 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    yes I chose load drivers.
  • TakeThis
    TakeThis Posts: 2,909 Forumite
    T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. wrote: »
    yes I chose load drivers.

    Why are you doing this? I covered this in post #57.
  • T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S.
    T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. Posts: 309 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    It doesn't find Vista until I have loaded some of the drivers
  • TakeThis
    TakeThis Posts: 2,909 Forumite
    T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. wrote: »
    It doesn't find Vista until I have loaded some of the drivers

    Ok, I'm with you now. Which Drivers do you have to load before it is recognised?

    Not sure why the operations are failing. Can't see an option in the BIOS/system set-up that changes the way the HDD is recognised.

    Is it Vista 32 bit that you are running?
  • TakeThis
    TakeThis Posts: 2,909 Forumite
    If it comes to it, you can attempt a Repair Install.
  • T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S.
    T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. Posts: 309 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    Not sure which drivers. Up to now I've always loaded as many as I could but Vista appears long before I've finished. There are always so many drivers in so many folders. 32 bit - yes.
    I'll look at that Repair Install later
    Cheers
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