Vista Won't Boot?

Probably you should reinstall Windows(I had the same problem and I could fix it just by reinstalling Windows).If you have your files in a different partition than Windows’ partition you can safely reinstall Windows by simply just formatting Windows partition leaving the other(and the files inside)intact

I guess i will do that, I wanted to do it anyways for a while.

Okay but heres some questions.

1. Can I load my songs into my Ipod in safe mode?

2. Where can I upload my pictures & Photoshop Psd’s? Yahoo Mail has a new Application called My drive (My Zumo’s drive i think) do you know how much gb i can store on that?

3. Would system restore help if i tried?

1 in safe mode itunes(or what are you using to sycronise your iPod)won’t start in Safe mode so you will remain only with what you have on iPod now.
2I think you should try to look in My(Zumo’s)drive to see how much can you upload.
3 I don’t think so.(it didn’t work for me)

Don’t wipe out your data yet. Boot the OS from the CD-ROM, and then select repair. Let it try to write a new MBR, and to do the other things it wants to try, including System Restore. If all of that fails, then you must reinstall, but I’m willing to bet it works.

@pdworkin I don’t have the CD, my laptop has a built in restore drive

The same apps will be on the restore drive. Just be sure to choose “Repair”.

On Vista, What Key do i press to enter that screen? F8 right?

Just tried to run System Restore (from start menu) and it says i haven’t created any restore points (I think I deleted the points from Tune-up, I won’t do that again) will it do the same on the start-up menu?

You can’t restore without restore points. Go to the command prompt and run fixmbr.

What will that do?

rewrite the Master Boot Record.

It says it’s not recognized. I wasn’t suppose to add that period right? I just entered fixmbr and press enter

Do it from the restore disk.

Wait, What about this?

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/722827.html

“Note You can run the commands in the following procedure by using the command prompt. If you run these commands in Windows Vista, run them at a command prompt that has elevated user rights. To do this, click Start, click Accessories, right-click the command-prompt shortcut, and then click Run as Administrator.

1. Use Bootsect.exe to restore the Windows Vista MBR and the boot code that transfers control to the Windows Boot Manager program. To do this, type the following command at a command prompt:

Drive:\boot\ Bootsect.exe –NT60 All
In this command, Drive is the drive where the Windows Vista installation media is located.”

Well whenever I’ve had problems I always had it fixed by the Vista installation disk. By doing the repair. I’m sure you know somebody who has the disk if you don’t. And you’ll only need it for a couple of minutes. I think its just easier than restore points

I can start that without the disk, & all my restore points & update backups are gone (my fault)

Okay on start – up to get to the restore disk, what do i press F8? F11?

It usually says what button to press on the bottom of the screen, usually its F8 or F12 or something like that. But it should say it on the bottom of the screen for a second or two.

I have a little over 4gb of songs, & Im putting them in a zip folder now. any online storage where i can upload it? & Im gonna try “My drive” on yahoo, but incase that doesn’t work. anything else? G mail storage?

Wait, is there a way to make another partition disk on my laptop so i can transfer everything i need on that?

Gmail doesn’t work.

& mydive has a 1gb limit :(

I also have a clean DVD-R disk. can that be used for my music?

Yes you can make new partitions. Click the start button. The right click on “Computer” then go to “Manage” This will open up a new computer management window. Click on “storage” and then “Disk Management”. It takes a little time for it to open. You should be able to see all of the partitions that vista already uses. Assuming your C drive is your main one. You can then right click on that and click “Shrink”. It will take some time for it to figure out how much space there is to shrink. You can make it whatever size less you want. Then you should have “Unallocated space”. You can assign that Unallocated space onto a new partition. After you make the Unallocated space of whatever size you want. So if you wanted four GB of storage. Then you would type in 4096. And it makes that size. You right click on the Unallocated Space and click “New Simple Volume”. That will basically make it a useable partition, like an extra hard disk.

Wait, so imma make my main 1 smaller?

Yeah you take some space from the main disk and seperate it from the rest.

my DVD. is 4.7 GB if i take out some songs & upload them, then the left over songs & put them in a online storage, would that be easier

burn them *

It would probably take longer to burn them all to DVD than make the extra partition. But maybe not messing around with the Hard drive would be easier. Your call really.

Okay imma do it your way but imma change it once everything is the same.

i have “53024” how much do i shrink?

53024 MB

How much do you want to store?

If you want about 5 gigs then put in 5120

The Zip. folder says 4.15 GB (4,464,268,491 bytes)

I’d say put in 5120 just to be safe. And you can put it all back into one drive when your finished anyway.

How much GB is that?

Thats 5 GB

“So change “53024” to “5120”?

Yeah change the one that says amount you want to shrink. It should be the one that was highlighted from when it opened

Once you do that it’ll take a little time for it to do that.

Okay so its not gonna make my whole drive 5 gb right? when i enter the numbers, thats how much its gonna take out right?

and the numbers i gave you @ first was the numbers that was in the box when i opened it

Yeah thats how much its going to take out.Your other drive will only shrink by 5 GB. The rest is the same. So if your drive is 160GB then it will become 155GB.

You enter 5120 for 5GB of space and it should be the only thing you can change when that window opens anyway

The number at the start is the MAX amount you can take. And you just change that to 5120. I know its kind of nerve wrecking at first. But its fine really.

Ok i got the Unallocated Space, now what do i do now?

Ok. So you should have 5 gig Unallocated Space. Now you right click on that. And choose “New simple volume”

A wizard will then pop up. Click next. Through the menu its all correct stuff.

another window poped out

Ok just keep clickin next?

Yeah keep clicking until it says Finish. THen click Finish

Now it might pop open a new window asking if you’d like to open it. You can check in computer now and it should look like a new hard drive called E or F or whatever letter

it says formatting

Thats fine. Its just making sure that 5 gig is free

It won’t touch any of your other files

So after its done, i can switch all the files to it?

Yeah if you look Computer now you should see your new partition. You can put the files in it now.

Now you just have to make sure that when your installing Vista again. Make sure to choose the C drive and not the new one.

Yea it says its gonna take like 7mins to switch the files. when i format the C drive, nothing is gonna go wrong with the other one right?

Everything should still be on the new drive. You are formatting the C drive to do a clean install of vista yeah?

Yea i am

Do you have the disk?

No but My vista has it built – in, don’t worry i already reformatted my laptop a couple times before

Cool glad I could help. Once you have vista installed then just copy over the files from the new disk. And go back into the computer management window like above. Click on the new drive after your done with it. Right click and go to “Delete Volume”. Then it will say “Are you sure you have stuff on this” or something like that say yes. You’ll then have Unallocated Space again. Then right click on your main C drive. Then click “Extend volume”. Then you can click next through all of that and you will have all your space back to normal.

Thank You. when it says extend volume, will it have a box i enter numbers too??

How much GB is 8.81 MB (9,239,369 bytes)

You won’t need to enter in the number for extending the volume. It will fill in the max you can extend anyway which is what you want..

8.81 MB is a smalll amount….its about 0.0081 GB

Thanks Alot.