Tried vista recovery cd, gets to boot from cd but when the background appears it doesnt go further. Normal boots show windows loading then it goes to black screen and stops. Haven't made and significant changes recently, don't know what happened. Please Help.

Be sure disk is clean and no damage.

Try another bootable cd maybe.

Check bios for any events if it supports that.

Check bios temps and voltages maybe.

Set (be careful) bios settings to failsafe or default.

"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10

tried to install two linux distributions over vista install and both freeze, cannot delete partition using gparted either. Cannot mount drives within linux either because it says they are active.

edit:
safe mode doesn't work, freezes after loading crcdisk.sys. Googled it and it seems like many other people are having the problem after updating drivers or after windows update.
soo ill look around at other threads see if anyone fixed it yet

See if your BIOS supports a hard disk test. If so, run it. It may take awhile.

WinSimple Software

... Yo KawaiiPanda n peeps

... can you access "safe mode command prompt"? via tapping F8 @ boot-up.

... type bcdedit /enum [press ENTER]

... plz post contents here

Grrrr
wat do I know?
... got brain freeze