Cannot Boot Vista64

I cannot boot in either safe or normal mode. When attempting to boot in
safe mode, the drivers will load, I wait, the screen goes black & I get
the words "safe Mode" in all 4 corners, the cursor moves, but nothing
else. Sometimes I simply get a blue screen with a moveable curor. When
running a diagnostic I get "boot manager is corrupt or missing". I
cannot run system restore. I have the Vista 64 recovery disks from HP ,
but the computer will not boot from them (the choice to boot from the
cd never appears); however, the computer will run the Vista 64 recovery
disk I got from the internet, but it cannot find an operating system to
repair. I have one 200gb hard drive, however when I run chkdsk, it
calls the drive X & says there is only 3 gb there. One more thing, while
booting I noticed the opportunity to go into the raid utility by
pushing crtl N. I never put raid on my computer & there is no evidence
of it in the boot consol. The computer is an HP Pavilion with an AMD
Quad core processor runing windows vista home premium 64, 6gb of ram,
200 gb hard drive. Of course I do not want to do a clean install of
windows because I have a great deal on my HD I do not want to loose.
Thank you in advance for your help!!


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nemco1

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> I cannot boot in either safe or normal mode. When attempting to boot in
> safe mode, the drivers will load, I wait, the screen goes black & I get
> the words "safe Mode" in all 4 corners, the cursor moves, but nothing
> else. Sometimes I simply get a blue screen with a moveable curor. When
> running a diagnostic I get "boot manager is corrupt or missing". I
> cannot run system restore. I have the Vista 64 recovery disks from HP ,
> but the computer will not boot from them (the choice to boot from the
> cd never appears); however, the computer will run the Vista 64 recovery
> disk I got from the internet, but it cannot find an operating system to
> repair. I have one 200gb hard drive, however when I run chkdsk, it
> calls the drive X & says there is only 3 gb there. One more thing, while
> booting I noticed the opportunity to go into the raid utility by
> pushing crtl N. I never put raid on my computer & there is no evidence
> of it in the boot consol. The computer is an HP Pavilion with an AMD
> Quad core processor runing windows vista home premium 64, 6gb of ram,
> 200 gb hard drive. Of course I do not want to do a clean install of
> windows because I have a great deal on my HD I do not want to loose.
> Thank you in advance for your help!!
>
>
> --
> nemco1

get into the BIOS and check that boot 1st from CD is made
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John the West Ham fan


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nemco1 wrote:

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> I cannot boot in either safe or normal mode. When attempting to boot in
> safe mode, the drivers will load, I wait, the screen goes black & I get
> the words "safe Mode" in all 4 corners, the cursor moves, but nothing
> else. Sometimes I simply get a blue screen with a moveable curor. When
> running a diagnostic I get "boot manager is corrupt or missing". I
> cannot run system restore. I have the Vista 64 recovery disks from HP ,
> but the computer will not boot from them (the choice to boot from the
> cd never appears); however, the computer will run the Vista 64 recovery
> disk I got from the internet, but it cannot find an operating system to
> repair. I have one 200gb hard drive, however when I run chkdsk, it
> calls the drive X & says there is only 3 gb there. One more thing, while
> booting I noticed the opportunity to go into the raid utility by
> pushing crtl N. I never put raid on my computer & there is no evidence
> of it in the boot consol. The computer is an HP Pavilion with an AMD
> Quad core processor runing windows vista home premium 64, 6gb of ram,
> 200 gb hard drive. Of course I do not want to do a clean install of
> windows because I have a great deal on my HD I do not want to loose.
> Thank you in advance for your help!!

I'm sorry to hear that you weren't doing backups because things don't look
good. Pull the drive and put it in an external enclosure and attach to a
working computer. See if you can retrieve any of the data. Then do hardware
testing on the drive and the target computer because it sounds like some
components have failed. When this issue has been resolved, create and
implement a backup strategy because Stuff Will Always Happen.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...ardware_Tshoot

Testing hardware failures often involves swapping out suspected parts with
known-good parts. If you can't do the testing yourself and/or are
uncomfortable opening your computer, take the machine to a professional
computer repair shop (not your local equivalent of
BigComputerStore/GeekSquad).

Malke
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