Today I tried to boot up my desktop computer running Windows Vista Ultimate and there was some hesitation in booting so I shut it off and rebooted manually. On reboot, I got a message (can't remember it exactly) that there had been an error and gave me an option to "Startup Repair". I ran it and it said that no problem had been detected and that I should restart. I did and on reboot ended up at the Windows Error Recovery screen allowing me the following options:
Safe Mode
Safe Mode with Networking
Safe Mode with Command Prompt
Start Windows Normally
None of the above options works... all send me to a screen that is pure black with just a white pointer cursor that hangs indefinitely. I've also tried going to the Advanced Boot Options (F8) on startup and "Repair Computer". There I've tried running "Startup Repair" again and "System Restore" which I am not able to run because there is no save point.
I assume that this problem is due to the following Microsoft bug: http://support.microsoft.c
1) Repair the system so that it can properly boot up
2) Re-install Vista in a way that does not destroy all of my files
Thanks!
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by: KCTSPosted on 2008-07-06 at 13:59:42ID: 21941607
If the worst comes to the worst you can remove the drive from the computer, put it into another as a slave and copy off your personal files, you can then replace the drive and re-install vista from scratch. Itt would be a good idea to make backups to your personal files to removable media eg a usb disk in future.