5342: Strange Problem, System Repair won't recognize it's own installation

The other evening Vista started refusing to start up, freezing on the
progress bar. Safe boot works fine.

So, I booted to the DVD and ran System Repair (name could be wrong). After
about 20 mins it was still running so I let it continue. At the point one
of my kids rebooted the computer. That's fine I thought, I'll just fix this
when they go to bed. Once again I rebooted from DVD and started up system
repair. I picked up my install drive but told me it was from an
incompatible version of Windows.

What to do from here?

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AP

A reinstall (

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"The Primate" <> wrote in message
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> The other evening Vista started refusing to start up, freezing on the
> progress bar. Safe boot works fine.
>
> So, I booted to the DVD and ran System Repair (name could be wrong).
> After about 20 mins it was still running so I let it continue. At the
> point one of my kids rebooted the computer. That's fine I thought, I'll
> just fix this when they go to bed. Once again I rebooted from DVD and
> started up system repair. I picked up my install drive but told me it
> was from an incompatible version of Windows.
>
> What to do from here?
>
> --
> AP
>

OMG....I didn't want to hear that.

Thanks Zack.......must say I am disappointed. I had Vista up and running
and was just starting to use it for day to day things so I might understand
it better. Regardless of all the negative hype I expect it to be a great OS
when released.

I guess I'll wait till the next release.

AP

"Zack Whittaker" <> wrote in message
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>A reinstall (
>
> --
> Zack Whittaker
> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
> not
> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
> that up!
>
> --: Original message follows :--
> "The Primate" <> wrote in message
> news:u15%...
>> The other evening Vista started refusing to start up, freezing on the
>> progress bar. Safe boot works fine.
>>
>> So, I booted to the DVD and ran System Repair (name could be wrong).
>> After about 20 mins it was still running so I let it continue. At the
>> point one of my kids rebooted the computer. That's fine I thought, I'll
>> just fix this when they go to bed. Once again I rebooted from DVD and
>> started up system repair. I picked up my install drive but told me it
>> was from an incompatible version of Windows.
>>
>> What to do from here?
>>
>> --
>> AP
>>
>
>