Vista - Very Sad Story

::Hello - I am a new poster and I just hope to God someone can help me
out. My story to date is last night my system went so crazy -
slowdowns, errors, etc that I decided to perform a system restore (for
want of a better word). I have a HP Pavillion with the Microsoft Vista
Home Premium operating system that was preloaded. The hard drive had a
partition \"D\" with a recovery setup. I elected to do a recovery to
rectify the problems I was having.

During the recovery process we were hit with a power black out from a
bad electrical storm. When power was restored and I powered my computer
I received a message from the Windows Boot Manager - Windows failed to
start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.

File: \windows\system32\winload.exe
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application
is missing or corrupt

I have spent the whole of today trying every suggestion I can find
given in threads in different forums, running the Vista RE, booteditors
but unfortunately nothing and I mean NOTHING seems to work.

If I have to reinstall Windows Vista I need to be able to save all the
data I can off the hard drive - emails, personal documents and scans.
First of all I would be very appreciative if anyone has any ideas on a
fix remembering this computer was performing a recovery before it lost
power and if I need to reinstall Vista, if someone could give me the
best way to save and then restore my files using DOS, which is about all
that is running on my computer.

Thanks in advance elusiverunner.::


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The HP recovery partition is a fresh install of the OS. It likely did
overwrite your data. The power outage did corrupt any further use. If the
HP partition D is gone, no go. Anyway, you are out of luck.


"elusiverunner" <> wrote in message
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>
> ::Hello - I am a new poster and I just hope to God someone can help me
> out. My story to date is last night my system went so crazy -
> slowdowns, errors, etc that I decided to perform a system restore (for
> want of a better word). I have a HP Pavillion with the Microsoft Vista
> Home Premium operating system that was preloaded. The hard drive had a
> partition \"D\" with a recovery setup. I elected to do a recovery to
> rectify the problems I was having.
>
> During the recovery process we were hit with a power black out from a
> bad electrical storm. When power was restored and I powered my computer
> I received a message from the Windows Boot Manager - Windows failed to
> start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.
>
> File: \windows\system32\winload.exe
> Status: 0xc000000f
> Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application
> is missing or corrupt
>
> I have spent the whole of today trying every suggestion I can find
> given in threads in different forums, running the Vista RE, booteditors
> but unfortunately nothing and I mean NOTHING seems to work.
>
> If I have to reinstall Windows Vista I need to be able to save all the
> data I can off the hard drive - emails, personal documents and scans.
> First of all I would be very appreciative if anyone has any ideas on a
> fix remembering this computer was performing a recovery before it lost
> power and if I need to reinstall Vista, if someone could give me the
> best way to save and then restore my files using DOS, which is about all
> that is running on my computer.
>
> Thanks in advance elusiverunner.::
>
>
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elusiverunner <> wrote:

>If I have to reinstall Windows Vista I need to be able to save all the
>data I can off the hard drive - emails, personal documents and scans.

If your previous attempt to do a recovery had succeeded, ALL of what
you want to save would have been overwritten... did you KNOW that?
Doesn't appear that you had a clue. It might already have been
overwritten.

You need to get that drive out of the computer and hooked to a working
machine as a slave to see if you can get your data off of it.

>First of all I would be very appreciative if anyone has any ideas on a
>fix remembering this computer was performing a recovery before it lost
>power and if I need to reinstall Vista, if someone could give me the
>best way to save and then restore my files using DOS, which is about all
>that is running on my computer.

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elusiverunner,

Have you access to another computer? Are you able to confidently remove the disc
from your notebook? If the answer is yes to both, place the notebook disc in an
external laptop disc case (from $AUD 12.00 upwards) suited for the disc. Do ****
NOT **** perform any check disk repairs, see if you are able to read what is on
the disc. If you cannot, install Recuva (download from http://www.recuva.com/ on
the other computer) and see what it can do for you, that's the free solution,
maybe it can help you. Otherwise you will have to pay, even dearly if you need to
extract the data off the disc.

If you are successful attaining your data, replace all, re-install all, get
yourself a long flexible caine, and wip yourself on the back, good and very hard
and say the words, "BACK UP", for each strike. After installing windows again,
burn your recovery partition on to multiple CD's or a DVD, there should be a
facility to do this. That external laptop case I mentioned before... Purchase
another notebook disc for it, and use it as a back up disc, and copy the recovery
disc(s) onto it as well. For such things the monetary price paid for the disc is
nothing regarding what it will do for you.

As your post states, crap happens, so put yourself in a position where you can
recover from it. Hope it turns out for the better for you.

- Vista Cabal.


"elusiverunner" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> ::Hello - I am a new poster and I just hope to God someone can help me
> out. My story to date is last night my system went so crazy -
> slowdowns, errors, etc that I decided to perform a system restore (for
> want of a better word). I have a HP Pavillion with the Microsoft Vista
> Home Premium operating system that was preloaded. The hard drive had a
> partition \"D\" with a recovery setup. I elected to do a recovery to
> rectify the problems I was having.
>
> During the recovery process we were hit with a power black out from a
> bad electrical storm. When power was restored and I powered my computer
> I received a message from the Windows Boot Manager - Windows failed to
> start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.
>
> File: \windows\system32\winload.exe
> Status: 0xc000000f
> Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application
> is missing or corrupt
>
> I have spent the whole of today trying every suggestion I can find
> given in threads in different forums, running the Vista RE, booteditors
> but unfortunately nothing and I mean NOTHING seems to work.
>
> If I have to reinstall Windows Vista I need to be able to save all the
> data I can off the hard drive - emails, personal documents and scans.
> First of all I would be very appreciative if anyone has any ideas on a
> fix remembering this computer was performing a recovery before it lost
> power and if I need to reinstall Vista, if someone could give me the
> best way to save and then restore my files using DOS, which is about all
> that is running on my computer.
>
> Thanks in advance elusiverunner.::
>
>
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Do you not know that like Windows XP the same for Windows Vista your files
are encrypted after you log off or computer loses power and you can not
access them by using your drive as slave do you read books on Vista and XP
probably not.

"DDW" <> wrote in message
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> elusiverunner <> wrote:
>
>>If I have to reinstall Windows Vista I need to be able to save all the
>>data I can off the hard drive - emails, personal documents and scans.
>
> If your previous attempt to do a recovery had succeeded, ALL of what
> you want to save would have been overwritten... did you KNOW that?
> Doesn't appear that you had a clue. It might already have been
> overwritten.
>
> You need to get that drive out of the computer and hooked to a working
> machine as a slave to see if you can get your data off of it.
>
>>First of all I would be very appreciative if anyone has any ideas on a
>>fix remembering this computer was performing a recovery before it lost
>>power and if I need to reinstall Vista, if someone could give me the
>>best way to save and then restore my files using DOS, which is about all
>>that is running on my computer.
>
> DDW
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The only way I know of you can access you information is pay a company that
has the ability to do that that is usually out of the scope of the home
computer use.

"Mike" <> wrote in message
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> Do you not know that like Windows XP the same for Windows Vista your files
> are encrypted after you log off or computer loses power and you can not
> access them by using your drive as slave do you read books on Vista and XP
> probably not.
>
> "DDW" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> elusiverunner <> wrote:
>>
>>>If I have to reinstall Windows Vista I need to be able to save all the
>>>data I can off the hard drive - emails, personal documents and scans.
>>
>> If your previous attempt to do a recovery had succeeded, ALL of what
>> you want to save would have been overwritten... did you KNOW that?
>> Doesn't appear that you had a clue. It might already have been
>> overwritten.
>>
>> You need to get that drive out of the computer and hooked to a working
>> machine as a slave to see if you can get your data off of it.
>>
>>>First of all I would be very appreciative if anyone has any ideas on a
>>>fix remembering this computer was performing a recovery before it lost
>>>power and if I need to reinstall Vista, if someone could give me the
>>>best way to save and then restore my files using DOS, which is about all
>>>that is running on my computer.
>>
>> DDW
>> --
>> Reply via this group
>> No email please
>

"elusiverunner" wrote:
>
> File: \windows\system32\winload.exe
> Status: 0xc000000f
> Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application
> is missing or corrupt

You know, I had that happen on the job one day that kind of same message
when I booted my XP machine at the time.

Tech support came over and fixed the problem, and I was able to boot the
machine and continued my work.

If data is so important to you, then take the machine to a professional that
works with the Vista O/S, like to a computer repair shop. You should see if
they can get you out of your current situation.

You should also invest in a 250gb USB hard disk drive so that you can copy
files to the USB drive as a back-up. They costs about $125.

You can also invest in an UPS system with battery backup that will give
about 30 minutes of battery power to keep the computer running so that you
can do a proper shutdown of the computer in the case of the house loosing
electrical power on the main. They cost anywhere from $50 and up.

You are a clueless moron and shouldn't be posting in these groups.
--
Mad Mike


"Mike" wrote:

>Do you not know that like Windows XP the same for Windows Vista your files
>are encrypted after you log off or computer loses power and you can not
>access them by using your drive as slave do you read books on Vista and XP
>probably not.]

What you know could be put in a thimble and there wouild still
be enough room left for my thumb.
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"Mike" <> wrote:

>The only way I know of you can access you information is pay a company that
>has the ability to do that that is usually out of the scope of the home
>computer use.

Still hiding behind my name, you little schoolboy MR ARNOLD.
Get a life, you GERM.
You are gutless!

You are too weak to even critise people in your own name;
You are a gutless COWARD.
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Mad Mike


"Mick Murphy" wrote:

> What you know could be put in a thimble and there wouild still
> be enough room left for my thumb.
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>
>
> "Mike" <> wrote:
>
> >The only way I know of you can access you information is pay a company that
> >has the ability to do that that is usually out of the scope of the home
> >computer use.
>