Danimalist
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First, I'm offended that anyone would equate Vista with Longhorn!
I've got a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4467. The other night while editing a word doc, it suddenly shut down after briefly flashing a long warning message that there was not time to read. Since then, I've gotten the "Read disc error...press control-alt-delete.." message when I restart.
I'm in Cambodia, so I don't have my Vista discs. I downloaded the Recovery disc. After searching for Windows installations, it says "Windows found problems with your computer's startup options." Then, "Do you want to apply repairs to restart your computer?"
I "view details" and see:
The following startup options will be added:
Name: Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (Recovered)
Path: Windows
Windows Device: Partition= C (151126MB)
When I press "repair and restart" a System Recovery dialogue box says "Failed to save startup options."
I then press "next" and go to "startup repair" which gives me this message: "Startup repair cannot repair this computer automatically'"
I "view problem details" which include "Problem Signature 06: Missing Boot manager" and "Problem Signature 09: WRPrepair"
I also tried system restore (through the command console), but it says there are no restore points.
Somewhere I also got the message "Boot manager is missing or corrupt"
Ïn addition I've tried bootrec.exe with /Fixboot and /Fixmbr, it says it fixes it but the problem remains.
I've also tried /RebuildBcd. It scans and finds one Windows installation, but when I choose to "add installation to build list" it says "The requested system device cannot be found."
Finally, I've tried "bcdedit/export C:\BCD_Backup" but it says the system cannot find the path specified.
To add to my woes, it has suddenly started beeping about every 20 seconds!
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I've got a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4467. The other night while editing a word doc, it suddenly shut down after briefly flashing a long warning message that there was not time to read. Since then, I've gotten the "Read disc error...press control-alt-delete.." message when I restart.
I'm in Cambodia, so I don't have my Vista discs. I downloaded the Recovery disc. After searching for Windows installations, it says "Windows found problems with your computer's startup options." Then, "Do you want to apply repairs to restart your computer?"
I "view details" and see:
The following startup options will be added:
Name: Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (Recovered)
Path: Windows
Windows Device: Partition= C (151126MB)
When I press "repair and restart" a System Recovery dialogue box says "Failed to save startup options."
I then press "next" and go to "startup repair" which gives me this message: "Startup repair cannot repair this computer automatically'"
I "view problem details" which include "Problem Signature 06: Missing Boot manager" and "Problem Signature 09: WRPrepair"
I also tried system restore (through the command console), but it says there are no restore points.
Somewhere I also got the message "Boot manager is missing or corrupt"
Ïn addition I've tried bootrec.exe with /Fixboot and /Fixmbr, it says it fixes it but the problem remains.
I've also tried /RebuildBcd. It scans and finds one Windows installation, but when I choose to "add installation to build list" it says "The requested system device cannot be found."
Finally, I've tried "bcdedit/export C:\BCD_Backup" but it says the system cannot find the path specified.
To add to my woes, it has suddenly started beeping about every 20 seconds!
Any suggestions would be appreciated.