Vista will not boot up

Not having made any real changes, Vista decided to not boot up all the way
today. It gets close but stops with a black screen with mouse cursor in the
middle. I can move the mouse, but nothing else happens and no other keys
work. Safe mode doesn't help - cursor is just slightly bigger. All factory
defaults in the BIOS are still in tact. This is on a Dell Inspiron E1505.
Any ideas on how to recover the problem to enable Vista to boot up all the
way? BTW, Media Direct (Dell feature with a secondary power button) still
works fine. It even accesses the hard drive to display photos, etc. But
full boot up to Windows Vista stops short... I would appreciate any help.
Thanks!
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scott

Use your restore disk to boot the system. Then use system restore to try
and restore the PC to a time when it did boot and see if it works. If it
fails you will probably need to do a full restore from our restore disk.
But try and Backup all your data first as this will wipe everything you
have on the harddrive. Returning your computer back to the state it was
when you originaly purchased it.


--
joel406

Boot from your Windows
Vista DVD, select the System Repair Option > on the setup screen, select
'Repair Computer > Select your installation of Windows > select Startup
Repair option and follow instructions.
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Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"scottb33" <> wrote in message
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> Not having made any real changes, Vista decided to not boot up all the way
> today. It gets close but stops with a black screen with mouse cursor in
> the
> middle. I can move the mouse, but nothing else happens and no other keys
> work. Safe mode doesn't help - cursor is just slightly bigger. All
> factory
> defaults in the BIOS are still in tact. This is on a Dell Inspiron E1505.
> Any ideas on how to recover the problem to enable Vista to boot up all the
> way? BTW, Media Direct (Dell feature with a secondary power button) still
> works fine. It even accesses the hard drive to display photos, etc. But
> full boot up to Windows Vista stops short... I would appreciate any help.
> Thanks!
> --
> scott