Vista Won't Boot. Computer Won't Boot from Disc

[Guest]

i installed vista, on my toshiba m40 laptop and everything went great. when
the installation finished it booted for the first time and froze, now my
computer won't boot into vista and it won't boot from any disc. i've tried
windows xp, vista, a hardware testing disc, knoppix. and i even tried booting
from my flash drive. everything i use goes straight back to vista bootloader.

http://my.opera.com/arf/blog/vista-toshiba-satellite-m40?show=login

the freezing bar is my toshiba problem. but i find it weird that it won't
boot from a disc anymore.

 

[John Barnes]

How is the boot priority in the BIOS set. Did it get reset? Can you get a
boot priority screen at boot?

 

[Chad Harris]

Hi Adriano--

"when the installation finished it booted for the first time and froze"
does not equal "everything went great." In fact, it didn't go at all. Great
means you would be using Vista on that box right now. I'm not trying to be
cute. I want you to get fixed; but I'm just trying to lend precision to
what happened. If this is an upgrade there are remedies and several MSKBs
for setups that are unsuccessful.

If I understand you correctly you have not in fact installed Windows Vista
and the installation ***did not finish successfully***. Did you ever see
the Vista desktop and run Vista on this installation? It sounds like you
did not. This is unless I misunderstand you a setup abortion problem. Is
this an upgrade from a legasy OS (perhaps XP) or a full install?

CH

 

[Guest]

hi, i did a full install and when it was booting for the first time it froze
on the loading screen. but today i removed my laptop hdd, put it in a desktop
computer, and i ran my windows xp home disc, i went into the recovery console
and typed fixmbr, then i loaded the install up again, and deleted all the
partitions, when the drive was clean without any partitions i put it back in
my laptop and put in my laptops recovery disc. windows xp reinstalled using
that and it actually just finished thanks for your help though

 

[Chad Harris]

I hope you make good use of whatever is your Vista DVD.

CH