I am posting here in the hope you can help me after 15 hours spent trying to fix this problem.
In overview I have a dual Vista 32 boot setup (with working C drive and locked D drives with separate Vista 32 OSes so no RAID), and after applying nVidia detected drivers (15.25-nforce…) on my secondary IDE drive, I have been totally unable to access the desktop on that drive. No safe mode. No nothing.
All I can get for the afflicted D drive (if boot sequence is via the working IDE drive ) is a black screen with mouse pointer and keyboard num lock active, a minute of disk activity before flickering off as if on soft reboot. (I have a lengthy ntbtlog report if anyone wants it but its way beyond my knowledge to understand it ^^)
Although thank God I can use the other drive provided my boot sequence is correct, and therefore have rescued most important docs, I badly need to use the programmes on the drive Im locked out of.
I have no Vista disks and no authentication keys (moral: don’t buy from Dino PC), there is no recovery programme on the HDD drive under F8 options, the ‘last working format’ option didn’t work, restore from within the accessible C drive command prompt only rolled back the C drive and not the D drive.
I was then hopeful the recovery disk on your site would help, and all credit to you it does bring up a recovery console… but the boot repair does nothing to help with all reports being something like ‘OxO’ which means fine I assume.
I then used the system restore option on your disk but that quotes ‘No restore points have been created on your computer’s system disk. To create a restore point open System Protection’ . This surprises me as I have never turned system restore off (Ive had the machine 2 years), and I assume I have to be able to enter bloody windows to get into System Protection and therefore manually restore somehow.
Finally on your recovery disk I tried the Command prompt method using D:….rstrui.exe, but that didn’t work; and under the directory for …\sytem32\restore only the . and .. volume labels show.
So I am now totally locked out of my second HDD (‘D:’) drive on my computer, which contains all my work programmes.
I basically now need your best troubleshooting guidance,
- ideally on how to get into safe mode for that drive despite my problems
- or how to get a recovery/rollback done outside of the main Windows console for the D drive.
- or a selected and correct deletion of the nVidia files that screwed it up again either from simple command prompt or accessed via other working drive.
- or else for people to tell me for sure I’m toast and would have to buy a new OS to get the drive working again. :x
Detailed info on my computer
Intel Core 2 6600 @ 2.40 GHz
RAM 4.0GB
Windows Vista Home Basic 32 Bit, SP1 (2 seperate copies one for each drive with different IDs)
P5N-E Sli motherboard from Asus (with nVidia nForce 650/430i support)
Nvidia 8600GT 512 MB
Driver updates –Nvidia 185 drivers for 8 series (working afaik), Nvidia 15.25… motherboard updates caused problem afaik
In overview I have a dual Vista 32 boot setup (with working C drive and locked D drives with separate Vista 32 OSes so no RAID), and after applying nVidia detected drivers (15.25-nforce…) on my secondary IDE drive, I have been totally unable to access the desktop on that drive. No safe mode. No nothing.
All I can get for the afflicted D drive (if boot sequence is via the working IDE drive ) is a black screen with mouse pointer and keyboard num lock active, a minute of disk activity before flickering off as if on soft reboot. (I have a lengthy ntbtlog report if anyone wants it but its way beyond my knowledge to understand it ^^)
Although thank God I can use the other drive provided my boot sequence is correct, and therefore have rescued most important docs, I badly need to use the programmes on the drive Im locked out of.
I have no Vista disks and no authentication keys (moral: don’t buy from Dino PC), there is no recovery programme on the HDD drive under F8 options, the ‘last working format’ option didn’t work, restore from within the accessible C drive command prompt only rolled back the C drive and not the D drive.
I was then hopeful the recovery disk on your site would help, and all credit to you it does bring up a recovery console… but the boot repair does nothing to help with all reports being something like ‘OxO’ which means fine I assume.
I then used the system restore option on your disk but that quotes ‘No restore points have been created on your computer’s system disk. To create a restore point open System Protection’ . This surprises me as I have never turned system restore off (Ive had the machine 2 years), and I assume I have to be able to enter bloody windows to get into System Protection and therefore manually restore somehow.
Finally on your recovery disk I tried the Command prompt method using D:….rstrui.exe, but that didn’t work; and under the directory for …\sytem32\restore only the . and .. volume labels show.
So I am now totally locked out of my second HDD (‘D:’) drive on my computer, which contains all my work programmes.
I basically now need your best troubleshooting guidance,
- ideally on how to get into safe mode for that drive despite my problems
- or how to get a recovery/rollback done outside of the main Windows console for the D drive.
- or a selected and correct deletion of the nVidia files that screwed it up again either from simple command prompt or accessed via other working drive.
- or else for people to tell me for sure I’m toast and would have to buy a new OS to get the drive working again. :x
Detailed info on my computer
Intel Core 2 6600 @ 2.40 GHz
RAM 4.0GB
Windows Vista Home Basic 32 Bit, SP1 (2 seperate copies one for each drive with different IDs)
P5N-E Sli motherboard from Asus (with nVidia nForce 650/430i support)
Nvidia 8600GT 512 MB
Driver updates –Nvidia 185 drivers for 8 series (working afaik), Nvidia 15.25… motherboard updates caused problem afaik