patrickg450
Member
Well my Vista took a dive the other day, it tried to repair itself or rather the HP utility did. I did not continue as it wanted to go back to initial settings and I did not have a good back up of all my recent data.
I purchased the NeoSmart Vista recovery, burnt it and booted the HP up. I was following the step by step here:
http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Windows+Bootloader+from+the+DVD
but my windows did not look the same, not sure if I d/l'ed the correct file. I did by it in order to complete the d/l. It says windows recovery essentials and I have 5 options :
AUTO REPAR
Partition editor
browse/back up files
intrernet browser
launch command line
The only thing that really worked was the first so I did do a auto repair but now it boots up and says that:
file:\windows\system32\winload.exe
error code 0xc000000f
is missing or contains errors.....
any advise?
I hope that I did the correct partition repair as it give me a few choices,
data volume 103 gig, active no
windows Vista 32 active yes
data volume 2 gig active no
all 3 are NTFS all I can do is a auto repair or a system restore, dont want to lose my data......
thanks in advance
Addendum
update:
http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EasyRE/System+Restore
my Hp has the same screens as the above link, OK so my question is do I dare do a restore and risk losing data or is there some way I can do a recent save before restoring? Still not sure why I have the 3 partitions above. Also I do a have a usb HD that has stuff on it but no sure it it has a current restore point. Of course my XP machine can read the usb drive when I plug it in to look at it, it only works on vista that is the dead machine.
I purchased the NeoSmart Vista recovery, burnt it and booted the HP up. I was following the step by step here:
http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Windows+Bootloader+from+the+DVD
but my windows did not look the same, not sure if I d/l'ed the correct file. I did by it in order to complete the d/l. It says windows recovery essentials and I have 5 options :
AUTO REPAR
Partition editor
browse/back up files
intrernet browser
launch command line
The only thing that really worked was the first so I did do a auto repair but now it boots up and says that:
file:\windows\system32\winload.exe
error code 0xc000000f
is missing or contains errors.....
any advise?
I hope that I did the correct partition repair as it give me a few choices,
data volume 103 gig, active no
windows Vista 32 active yes
data volume 2 gig active no
all 3 are NTFS all I can do is a auto repair or a system restore, dont want to lose my data......
thanks in advance
Addendum
update:
http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EasyRE/System+Restore
my Hp has the same screens as the above link, OK so my question is do I dare do a restore and risk losing data or is there some way I can do a recent save before restoring? Still not sure why I have the 3 partitions above. Also I do a have a usb HD that has stuff on it but no sure it it has a current restore point. Of course my XP machine can read the usb drive when I plug it in to look at it, it only works on vista that is the dead machine.