Vista Repair Broken

[Guest]

I started getting erros about \Boot\BCD being corrupted. So using the advice
of the error I put in my Vista business cd to repair it. Unfortunately the
repair screen would load windows and get to the background and just sit there
(I left it over night and it did not change).

I'm not sure what happened but since I had another copy of vista from a much
older install on the system I decided to try to boot from it and I was able
to. So I decide to attempt a repair with only that hard drive connected.
With just it connected the repair screen came up and it also listed two other
vista installs listed as recoverable. Which I obviously cannot repair while
the hard drives are disconnected.

I put in another drive and cloned the broken install thought maybe it was
the hard drive or something. Unfortunately the same thing happens the repair
screen just hangs at the vista background and does not load the language
screen.

I've attempted booting these extra vista installs listed when I boot from
the older vista install. The one gives weird errors (I assume it's due to it
thinking its on a drive letter that does not exist). The other complains
about a corrupted winload.exe (this one actually matches a drive letter I
have).

Is there some way I can perform a repair on this system? It seems like the
winload.exe is corrupted and the \Boot\BCD is as well. Both things that can
be fixed when running a repair. At this time I can access the drive when
booting from the older vista install. It shows all files intact and there
appears to be nothing wrong with it. I'd like to get back on this install as
it has all the programs I need installed and setup properly.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

I started getting erros about \Boot\BCD being corrupted. So using the
advice
of the error I put in my Vista business cd to repair it. Unfortunately
the
repair screen would load windows and get to the background and just sit
there
(I left it over night and it did not change).

I'm not sure what happened but since I had another copy of vista from a
much
older install on the system I decided to try to boot from it and I was
able
to. So I decide to attempt a repair with only that hard drive connected.
With just it connected the repair screen came up and it also listed two
other
vista installs listed as recoverable. Which I obviously cannot repair
while
the hard drives are disconnected.

I put in another drive and cloned the broken install thought maybe it was
the hard drive or something. Unfortunately the same thing happens the
repair
screen just hangs at the vista background and does not load the language
screen.

I've attempted booting these extra vista installs listed when I boot from
the older vista install. The one gives weird errors (I assume it's due to
it
thinking its on a drive letter that does not exist). The other complains
about a corrupted winload.exe (this one actually matches a drive letter I
have).

Is there some way I can perform a repair on this system? It seems like
the
winload.exe is corrupted and the \Boot\BCD is as well. Both things that
can
be fixed when running a repair. At this time I can access the drive when
booting from the older vista install. It shows all files intact and there
appears to be nothing wrong with it. I'd like to get back on this install
as
it has all the programs I need installed and setup properly.

I had something very much like this happen to me, after I tried installing
another copy of Vista on another hard drive. I think the mistake I made was
not disconnecting the RAID-0 drives that the original installation was on
before doing so.

After I tried replacing the BCD folder files, winload.exe errors appeared.
I never got past that stage and decided to reinstall.

I'd be interested to see if you can get this fixed. This is an part of
Vista that really does my head in.

ss.

 

[Spirit]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

 

[Spirit]

This is the other possibility I think :

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927391/en-us

 

[Guest]

Here is the problem the windows recovery environment is on the dvd as far as
I know. I put the dvd in when I got a copy of this broken vista install
sitting on a drive and it will not load past the vista background. I get rid
of the broken installs and it loads right to the language screen.

 

[vanilla]

Thanks for these links to the Microsoft Knowledgebase. What do you do when
you don't have an installation disc?

I bought Vista Home Premium. I have that disc. But then I used Anytime
Upgrade to buy an upgrade to Vista Ultimate. It downloaded and installed
immediately. There was no option to back up to a DVD. There was no option to
BUY a backup DVD from the Digital Locker. I only have access to reinstall
Ultimate through the Digital Locker.

If this problem that has happened to this other fellow happened to me, what
should I do? Can I use the Home Premium DVD I have? Would that not work
because my installation is Vista Ultimate?

When I first bought the upgrade through the Microsoft Anytime Upgrade
website and then discovered I would not be able to burn a backup of the
upgrade to DVD, nor even to BUY the upgrade on disc, I was really mad.

I thought then that, if anything went wrong, I would have to wipe the drive,
install the Vista Home Premium, get online and then redownload Ultimate from
the Digital Locker. I have never found a solution in any knowledgebase,
feed, newsgroup post, etc., that shows a solution for this situation.

It just baffled me beyond words that there was no option to even BUY a
backup CD when purchasing an upgrade through the Digital Locker. If you know
of any legitimate way for me to create an emergency backup for my Ultimate
install, please point me to the info. Thanks for any thoughts on what I
could do to recover, short of complete wipes and reinstalls ... vanilla