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I'm guessing you're getting stuck in the 3 of 3 screen?<br />
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Boot using your Vista DVD. Head over to system repair and choose commandprompt. Open notepad by typing notepad in the commandprompt. In notepad browse to c:\windows\winsxs (using 'open' in notepad) there should be a file called pending.xml. Delete this file and reboot, you should get the 3 of 3 screen again, after a few seconds it should boot normally. Hope this helps.
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I'm guessing you're getting stuck in the 3 of 3 screen?

Boot using your Vista DVD. Head over to system repair and choose commandprompt. Open notepad by typing notepad in the commandprompt. In notepad browse to c:\windows\winsxs (using 'open' in notepad) there should be a file called pending.xml. Delete this file and reboot, you should get the 3 of 3 screen again, after a few seconds it should boot normally. Hope this helps.

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After an auto update, it said it needed to restart. &nbsp;Now all it will do it boot straight to the Startup Repair, which fails. &nbsp;<br />
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I have tried to boot with logging, but no ntbtlog.txt file is created in c:\windows. &nbsp;<br />
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I have attached the windows update log. &nbsp;(I removed all before 2/10/09)<br />
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Any idea's?<br />
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WindowsUpdate.log

After an auto update, it said it needed to restart.  Now all it will do it boot straight to the Startup Repair, which fails.  

I have tried to boot with logging, but no ntbtlog.txt file is created in c:\windows.  

I have attached the windows update log.  (I removed all before 2/10/09)

Any idea's?

Vista fails to boot after Auto Update Restart

Windows Vista is an operating system created by Microsoft as the successor to Windows XP. It was intended for PCs, workstations and laptops, and shares the same code base as its successor, Windows 7. New features included an updated graphical user interface (GUI) and visual style dubbed Aero, a new search component called Windows Search, redesigned networking, audio, print and display subsystems, and new multimedia tools. Vista aimed to increase the level of communication between machines on a home network, using peer-to-peer technology to simplify sharing files and media between computers and devices. Windows Vista included version 3.0 of the .NET Framework, allowing software developers to write applications without traditional Windows APIs.