It’s alive!
Mirabile dictu! Eureka!! Klaatu barada nikto!
Upon returning from my errands last night, I inserted the CD which I had paid Staples $5.00 to burn using one of their PCs and your vista 64 bit repair program that I had loaded onto a thumb drive. Slightly to my surprise perhaps, it booted immediately. I began updating my virus definitions and performed the necessary restart. Upon reboot, it showed the same error screen that I had been getting for a week. Not to worry. I ran your disk repair program a second time as it suggested might be necessary since it makes only one repair at a time. It booted properly again and I continued updating and another necessary restart. Another error message duplicating the one I had been receiving for the past week. Still not to worry. Your repair program conducted a third repair and again my HP booted properly. Each of the three necessary repairs took only seconds after all the files had loaded. After several hours, I had completely updated my programs, run a complete virus check, and done a complete backup on an external hard drive without any further problems!
Count me among the healed and a true believer! So thank you, Mahmoud and Terry et al, for your wonderful program, its inexpensive price, and most of all for the time and care you take in reading and replying to all of those posts. Clearly your time, effort and knowledge are worth far more than the meager price you are required to charge.
Lee Carter, Ph.D. (And yes, I should’ve been smarter to have a total backup instead of the partial one I did have!)
PS Curiously perhaps (or not), neither Costco concierge in the United States or Canada recommend you as a possible solution, nor does HP technical support, presumably because they want to sell their own more expensive disks which must be received by mail. Nor does Symantec recommend you either. Thank whomever for Google, which is the way I found you.