Startup Repair Issue - SP2 Issue?

I've read countless stories of an issue similar to mine but none tha
match it exactly, and none of them have had solutions that work. I a
running Vista and recently installed SP2

I noticed the Data Execution Prevention feature acting up a few day
ago. It had been closing COM Surrogate for weeks, but recently i
started closing IE as well. I don't use IE, but when programs like AI
start they still open their welcome windows there. DEP started closin
the two programs even when they weren't necessarily open, so I starte
trying to figure out how to make it stop. I found an online tutoria
that told me how to turn it off for certain programs, so I set IE as a
exception

After rebooting it was still closing IE, so I tried running the comman
prompt

bcdedit.exe/set nx AlwaysOf

to turn it off. That didn't seem to work either, so I tried the firs
option again, noticing that my changes hadn't been saved. I left th
laptop to reboot and went to get a shower. When I came back it stil
said "Logging Off" and after several more minutes I did a har
shut-down

Now when the computer tries to load, it goes to the Vista Loadin
screen for maybe a second before flashing the blue screen, going black
then restarting with the option to start Vista normally (which start
the cycle again) or run Startup Repair, which can't fix the problem

I have lots of data on here that I CANNOT afford to lose: recordin
sessions and student teacher work that, ironically, I was preparing t
backup onto an external drive. What can I do

Thanks
Ch

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Beatlesfan2222

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:48:51 -0600, Beatlesfan2222 wrote:

> I've read countless stories of an issue similar to mine but none that
> match it exactly, and none of them have had solutions that work. I am
> running Vista and recently installed SP2.
>
> I noticed the Data Execution Prevention feature acting up a few days
> ago. It had been closing COM Surrogate for weeks, but recently it
> started closing IE as well. I don't use IE, but when programs like AIM
> start they still open their welcome windows there. DEP started closing
> the two programs even when they weren't necessarily open, so I started
> trying to figure out how to make it stop. I found an online tutorial
> that told me how to turn it off for certain programs, so I set IE as an
> exception.
>
> After rebooting it was still closing IE, so I tried running the command
> prompt:
>
> bcdedit.exe/set nx AlwaysOff
>
> to turn it off. That didn't seem to work either, so I tried the first
> option again, noticing that my changes hadn't been saved. I left the
> laptop to reboot and went to get a shower. When I came back it still
> said "Logging Off" and after several more minutes I did a hard
> shut-down.
>
> Now when the computer tries to load, it goes to the Vista Loading
> screen for maybe a second before flashing the blue screen, going black,
> then restarting with the option to start Vista normally (which starts
> the cycle again) or run Startup Repair, which can't fix the problem.
>
> I have lots of data on here that I CANNOT afford to lose: recording
> sessions and student teacher work that, ironically, I was preparing to
> backup onto an external drive. What can I do?
>
> Thanks,
> Chi

If you can remove your drive from the computer, you could easily access
your files on it from another computer by using an external enclosure or
USB->SATA (or USB->IDE) adapter.

Or if worse comes to worse, you can run a free program like EASEUS Disk
Copy:
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/

You burn the .iso image to a CD and boot your current computer from the CD.
You can then back your drive up to a USB drive.

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