I recently updated my box to Vista Ult SP1 and then I started experiencing major problems (random blue screens). Suddenly a brand new drive in my RAID 1 array was "failed" so I removed it from the array and blue screens kept coming (so fast I couldn't read em). I tried going direct to my board (instead of the PCIe RAID card I was booting from) and got nowhere. Would get to the green loading boxes and then immediate blue screen. Same exact thing with all methods of Safe Mode, Last Known Good, etc.
I tried a repair via the DVD and it failed miserably. I tried loading a system restore point (which I KNOW it created just prior to installing SP1) but says there aren't any there.
So now I'm trying to put the drive on a new mobo with onboard raid (btw - both drives in the array test out fine i can access both when booting from the DVD). I don't want to do a clean install. I have too many programs and too much data to try and recover.
So I try to use the "recovering Vista bootloader" techniques and get nowhere - including nuclear holocaust method. every time, it all goes fine, no errors - but when I do a rebuildbcd it always says 0 installations identified. I did the step 3 with this result:
C: (\\?\Volume{bef2ad43-41a4-11dd-a38b-806e6f6e6963})
Successfully updated NTFS filesystem bootcode
Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes.
and still rebuild BCD says
Total Identified Windows Installations: 0
I know it's there - since I can select WINDOWS VISTA to repair from the recovery console.
I just tried to do the nuclear holocaust method again and not a single error, everything went thru with "Operation completed successfully" or some other positive message....but restart simply leads to the windows green blocks and yet another bluescreen with a reboot.
Where am I going wrong??? I seriously need help. I've been at this nightly for 2 weeks.
I tried a repair via the DVD and it failed miserably. I tried loading a system restore point (which I KNOW it created just prior to installing SP1) but says there aren't any there.
So now I'm trying to put the drive on a new mobo with onboard raid (btw - both drives in the array test out fine i can access both when booting from the DVD). I don't want to do a clean install. I have too many programs and too much data to try and recover.
So I try to use the "recovering Vista bootloader" techniques and get nowhere - including nuclear holocaust method. every time, it all goes fine, no errors - but when I do a rebuildbcd it always says 0 installations identified. I did the step 3 with this result:
C: (\\?\Volume{bef2ad43-41a4-11dd-a38b-806e6f6e6963})
Successfully updated NTFS filesystem bootcode
Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes.
and still rebuild BCD says
Total Identified Windows Installations: 0
I know it's there - since I can select WINDOWS VISTA to repair from the recovery console.
I just tried to do the nuclear holocaust method again and not a single error, everything went thru with "Operation completed successfully" or some other positive message....but restart simply leads to the windows green blocks and yet another bluescreen with a reboot.
Where am I going wrong??? I seriously need help. I've been at this nightly for 2 weeks.
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