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A curious thing happened this morning. My Dell 6000 laptop booted fine on its HD with Vista Ultimate. I recently built this sytem on a new HD, leaving my XP install on the old one so I could transfer information in different stages.
In Vista, I hibernated (probably the mistake) and turned off the machine. I then swapped the drives, putting in the XP HD, and booted up, no problem. Got the info I was looking for, then shutdown and powered off.
I put the Vista HD back in but poof--the BIOS screen goes through, the HD light flickers a bit, then I just have a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left.
I can still boot from the XP drive (which I'm running now); I can boot from the Vista DVD with the other HD in place and see that everything is still there.
System Repair from Vista reports no problems, CHKDSK is OK, I deleted hiberfil.sys (hibernation file), redid the MBR and the Vista boot sector, but still...nothing. I've tried cooling the drive down, but no luck.
What else should I be trying? Perhaps the partition table is bad?
"... redid the MBR and the Vista boot sector..." <<< ... hmmm HOW??
... hook up the Vista h/d
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... as laptop boots-up tapping F8 key
...select "safe mode command prompt" [ENTER]
... type: bcdedit /enum [press ENTER]
... Post the contents here
Grrrr
wat do I know?
... got brain freeze
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Thanks for your reply.
The boot record and MBR are handled with the command-line BootRec tool (booting from the Vista DVD and going into Repair).
As you requested, here's what bcdedit /enum returns. (I had to boot from the DVD since the HD doesn't even get to a point of being able to press F8):
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {default}
resumeobject {21bf51e5-005f-11dd-8ca3-9cf1fca3a80b}
displayorder {default}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {default}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Microsoft Windows Vista
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {21bf51e5-005f-11dd-8ca3-9cf1fca3a80b}
nx OptIn
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Yes, I have tried that several times. On most occasions it says nothing is wrong. Just now I tried it again and got a message saying that it couldn't repair what errors it found; the details suggested a problem with the partition table.
That would suggest that I need to fix the partition, but I'm not sure how to proceed with that, specifically.
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You could try an actual repair installation of Vista - boot from the Vista DVD, proceed as if you were doing a new install, before it lets you choose where you install Vista it will scan the drive for previous windows installations and hopefully find your existing install. It will then give you the option to repair this installation and it goes through all the motions of a new install but only repairs system files, you won't lose any of your personal data
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"...In Vista, I hibernated (probably the mistake) and turned off the machine..."
... " resumeobject {21bf51e5-005f-11dd-8ca3-9cf1fca3a80b} "
"...I deleted hiberfil.sys..."
http://www.multibooters.co.uk/bootm...
info: to restore the boot loader
...Vista DVD has a folder named BOOT
bootsect.exe /nt60 all force c:(wherever your Vista install is)
bootsect.exe /help for switches.
http://www.multibooters.co.uk/cloni...
... solution:
http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EB...
... plz let us know when you recover.
Grrrr
wat do I know?
... got brain freeze
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... so much for "information technology"
... either "my" (research)web site is down
... or they're hiding "it"
... brief solution synopsis:
Recovering the Windows Vista Bootloader from the Installation DVD
Repairing the Vista Bootloader
Step One: Booting from the Windows Vista DVD
Press a key, and in a couple minute's time you should see a page like:
Select "Repair your computer" to continue.
Step Two: Automated Repair
Proceed with the repair process by choosing "Startup Repair"Step Three: Manually Repairing the Vista Bootloader
select "Command Prompt"tell the recovery console to fix our MBR and bootsectors:
Replace x: to your CD drive
bootrec.exe /fixmbr
x:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 all /force
and rebuild your BCD data from scratch:del C:\boot\bcd
bootrec.exe /rebuildbcdReboot your PC by typing in this command or by closing all the dialogs:
shutdown -r -t 0
Step Four:
select "Command Prompt"
The first order of business is to make sure the MBR and bootsector contain
the right references to the Vista bootloader:Replace x: to your CD drive
bootrec.exe /fixmbr
x:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 all /force
Now we get rid of the old BCD registry, and create a new one instead.del C:\boot\bcd
bcdedit /createstore c:\boot\bcd.temp
bcdedit.exe /store c:\boot\bcd.temp /create {bootmgr} /d "Windows Boot Manager"
bcdedit.exe /import c:\boot\bcd.temp
bcdedit.exe /set {bootmgr} device partition=C:
bcdedit.exe /timeout 10
del c:\boot\bcd.temp
Now we have a clean, working Vista bootloader.
But we need to add a Vista entry to it:bcdedit.exe /create /d "Windows Vista" /application osloader
bcdedit.exe should return a message with a GUID for the newly-created entry,
something like this:
The entry {c0dfc4fa-cb21-11dc-81bf-005056c00008} was successfully created.You'll need to use the value that bcdedit.exe returned for you below,
along with the drive letter for the drive that Windows Vista is installed to:bcdedit.exe /set {c0dfc4fa-cb21-11dc-81bf-005056c00008} device partition=C:
bcdedit.exe /set {c0dfc4fa-cb21-11dc-81bf-005056c00008} osdevice partition=C:
bcdedit.exe /set {c0dfc4fa-cb21-11dc-81bf-005056c00008} path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
bcdedit.exe /set {c0dfc4fa-cb21-11dc-81bf-005056c00008} systemroot \Windows
And, last of all, tell the Vista bootloader to boot the new entry by default:
bcdedit.exe /displayorder {c0dfc4fa-cb21-11dc-81bf-005056c00008}
bcdedit.exe /default {c0dfc4fa-cb21-11dc-81bf-005056c00008}
Now the Vista bootloader has been nuked and rebuilt from scratch.
... download torrent Vista Repair boot iso:
http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/downl...
... " NUTS "
... ( just nuts for now )
... ( in future I may link a snapshot of that webpage )
... ya
Grrrr
wat do I know?
... got brain freeze
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... GRRRRRRRrrrrrrrr
http://neosmart.net:8070/wiki/displ...
... auuughhhhhh
Grrrr
wat do I know?
... got brain freeze
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