I have a dual boot system with Vista and XP. Vista is the systems that boots first. Last night chkdsk was interrupted and now Vista freezes after the first vista progress bar.

I have tried using the "repair" option on my Vista cd. I have a serial ata hard drive with an adapter so i have to load the drivers from the separate disk. All goes well and the cd finds my Vista operating system, however it continues to search endlessly so i cant select the Vista it has already found to repair.

Any help would be great.

hi guys,

i downloaded a torrent file which was supposed to be an proxy helper and its totally killed my laptop. The laptop will start but wont let me into task mgr, wont let me update any spy softwa

Can you boot into XP ?

Yes i can get into XP.

Also, i have Vista boot pro installed in XP but haven't a clue how to use it!

You can use Vista boot pro to decide which operating system to boot first, the time delay for the boot options menu, and so on. However, I don't think that's going to repair your Vista problems. Did you use the Startup Repair option ?

Yeah when i use the Start Up Repair option it asks me to insert the driver for my SATA card (so it can find my hard drive and operating system). I do that and it finds the Vista operating system. The problem is it continues to search for more operating systems and so i can't select the Vista it does find to repair it.

Maybe you should use Vista boot pro to set XP as the default(and hence first) operating system to boot. I'm not sure if that would help, but it might be worth a try.

The problem is all my programs etc are set up in Vista.

How would that help me boot into Vista?

Maybe it won't continue to search for more operating systems.

I don't know about dual boot.
But with just Vista, with the repair CD, you have to wait awhile like 10-15mins with the green vista background to get into the installation menu. From there clicking next will enable you to access the repair option.

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