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My Computer will not boot and says I need to run the chkdsk utility

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I have a relatively new laptop and it all of the sudden stopped working.  When I try to boot it up it gives me the error "the file or directory C:\Windows\Registration is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the chkdsk utility."

However, since I cannot get to my desktop then how can I run that utility?

It is Vista 64bit Windows Ultimate edition
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Seen this many times. You can try to use F8 during bootup to  boot to safe mode with networking  but that probably will not work. What I do is use the Ultimate Boot CD. It is free for download and has many usefull tools. You can boot to the CD and then run the chkdsk utility.

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
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Hi

I did download the software, but it keeps speaking about Windows XP and the instructions say somehting about having to burn/build it from and XP computer, etc....

As I am rather a novice, I was hoping for something that I could just download and stick into my other computers cd rom to get it to the desktop so that I could run the chkdsk.....

This software seems a bit above my head....

Just bun the download to CD in anotherh computer. Then boot your vista box from the CD. You will see a menu that says hard disk options. One option will be chkdsk. It works on vista. I have used several times.
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Do you have a Vista installation DVD?  You can also boot to that and run chkdsk from there:   CHKDSK C: /R

The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows is definitely a great tool, but if you don't have a retail copy of Windows XP to use to build the CD, then you should use your Vista DVD instead.  If you didn't get one with your computer, then download the making for this Vista Recovery CD and build it.  You can boot to it, then select Repair my computer, then run CHKDSK from the Command Prompt section.

http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/
try booting in safe mode - hit F8 during boot.
if you can run the chkdsk, then reboot
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Hi Lee

I went to http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/

And I think I followed the instructions pretty well...

I downloaded the 64 bit version from http://neosmart.net:6969/torrent.html?info_hash=fbf47dd7d63708ea2e7acac1709747c5f7eb94b5

Then per the instructions I downloaded the torrent file and then downloaded utorrent to download the full file.

Then it says to burn the "ISO" file to a CD using some software called imgburn
However, when I downloaded the torrent via utorrent it was not a ISO file.  It was a zip file.  I extracted the zip file into a folder on my desktop and there were two folders and one single file extracted totaling 147 mb

One folder was called "boot" and the other folder called "Sources" and the single file called "bootmgr"
I thought I would also go ahead and copy the contents of the folders to the root just in case it did not know to look into the folders.

I copied all of the contents onto a CD using the software that came with my computer rather than using "imgburn" and then I tried to "boot from the CD"

I have never really tried to boot from a CD before but I think I got it right as the drive began to move.  However, it did not seem to do anything.  It just kind of stalled.  I let it sit for about 45 minutes and it was just a dark blank screen with the mouse arrow.

The files that were on the disk were:

bcd
boot.wim
bootmgr
boot.sdi
bootfix.bin

But like I said, I did not see what they said would be an "ISO" file.
When I go to f2 that is the PhoenixBios Set-up utility
When I go to f-12 that is the boot menu where I can choose cd/dvd/cd-rw drive
When I go to f-8 that is the "Advanced Boot Options" screen that give options such as booting in safe mode (which I have tried and does not work)

Please let me know if I have done something incorrectly.

Thanks!

Steve
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did you even try booting to safe mode?   that would have fixed it..
Hi

Perhaps I am not sure what you mean by "Boot to safe mode".  I did attempt to load windows in safe mode and that failed many times.

However, after using the Windows Vista disk to repair the corrupt file all seems to be working fine now.


ok -fine then..