Windows Vista Business Repair Disk LOST !!! HELP

[fa0921]

hi. i have windows vista business on a dell diemsnion 1100. i installed vista
business on it and works all fine. a few months later i decided to upgrade my
CPU to a dual-core and a nvidia geforce FX 5500 in a asrock dxvsta
motherboard. Great speed... but, vista did not boot up. it came with that
blue screen and wont continue no more from there. I know i have to repair
vista but I HAVE LOST THE VISTA BUSINESS DISK. and so all my data i cannot
get yet cause i cannot boot. so, i there a way i can download a repair disk
or something? is there a shortcut? i need to uninstall all the old drivers
and then with temp drivers boot into vista and update them. PLEASE, I NEED MY
FILES FOR WORK OR ILL LOOSE MY JOB !!! thanks so much for your help and
looking at this note.

 

[Mick Murphy]

You will have to reinstall Vista. You have made major hardware changes, and
the OS is protecting itself!
Even if you had the disk, you could not do a startup repair.
You made too many changes at once.

Take out your Hard drive, and slave it in another computer.
Boot from the good OS in that computer and read your data from the
second(slave) drive.
Burn it to CD, or copy it to Memory stick.

 

[Malke]

hi. i have windows vista business on a dell diemsnion 1100. i installed vista
business on it and works all fine. a few months later i decided to upgrade my
CPU to a dual-core and a nvidia geforce FX 5500 in a asrock dxvsta
motherboard. Great speed... but, vista did not boot up. it came with that
blue screen and wont continue no more from there. I know i have to repair
vista but I HAVE LOST THE VISTA BUSINESS DISK. and so all my data i cannot
get yet cause i cannot boot. so, i there a way i can download a repair disk
or something? is there a shortcut? i need to uninstall all the old drivers
and then with temp drivers boot into vista and update them. PLEASE, I NEED MY
FILES FOR WORK OR ILL LOOSE MY JOB !!! thanks so much for your help and
looking at this note.

OK, the first thing to do is take a deep cleansing breath. Now back up
your data. Since you can't get into Windows, you'll need to pull the
hard drive and either 1) slave it to another working Vista computer and
copy the data off (and you may need to take ownership of it later); 2)
put the drive in a USB drive enclosure and attach it to the working
Vista machine.

Because you made so many huge hardware changes, you will need to do a
Vista repair at the very least - you may even need to do a clean
install. If you got the Vista Business from Dell, call them for
replacement. If you bought it retail, see this link:

How to Replace Lost, Broken, or Missing Microsoft Software or Hardware -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;326246

Another option is to take the machine to a professional computer repair
shop (not a BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place) and have them fix
your Vista Business installation. Presumably you have your product key
and that is your license to run Windows, not the physical CD/DVD. Get
recommendations from family, friends, colleagues and make sure to have
the shop back up your data if you can't do it yourself.

When you get this all sorted - and you will, don't worry it will be OK -
create and implement a backup strategy so your data isn't put in
jeopardy like this again.


Malke

 

[Kevin Weaver]

SPAM

OK, the first thing to do is take a deep cleansing breath. Now back up
your data. Since you can't get into Windows, you'll need to pull the hard
drive and either 1) slave it to another working Vista computer and copy
the data off (and you may need to take ownership of it later); 2) put the
drive in a USB drive enclosure and attach it to the working Vista machine.

Because you made so many huge hardware changes, you will need to do a
Vista repair at the very least - you may even need to do a clean install.
If you got the Vista Business from Dell, call them for replacement. If you
bought it retail, see this link:

How to Replace Lost, Broken, or Missing Microsoft Software or Hardware -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;326246

Another option is to take the machine to a professional computer repair
shop (not a BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place) and have them fix
your Vista Business installation. Presumably you have your product key and
that is your license to run Windows, not the physical CD/DVD. Get
recommendations from family, friends, colleagues and make sure to have the
shop back up your data if you can't do it yourself.

When you get this all sorted - and you will, don't worry it will be OK -
create and implement a backup strategy so your data isn't put in jeopardy
like this again.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

 

[Kevin Weaver]

This phone home thing is total BS. I bought a new hard drive. It was set
off.

 

[Kerry Brown]

Could you please explain how a post that answers a question with a well
thought out and correct answer is spam?

 

[That Guy]

He was referring to his own phone home message. Obviously didn't take the
right pill this morning and is hearing voices again.

 

[Kevin Weaver]

Could you please explain how a post that answers a question with a well
thought out and correct answer is spam?

And with that, why not ask him the same question. All I see him post is spam
after someone else so fair play.

 

[Kevin Weaver]

He was referring to his own phone home message. Obviously didn't take the
right pill this morning and is hearing voices again.

Ok smart ass. Which one should I have taken ? The red or the blue one ?

 

[Kerry Brown]

And with that, why not ask him the same question. All I see him post is
spam after someone else so fair play.

Who are you talking about? Malke? She's definitely not a him. I've never
seen her post spam. If anything she is one the most on topic posters I've
ever seen. She does point out spam posts so that people hopefully won't go
to the spammers web site which is a blog of stolen material from other
blogs. The site is designed to generate income from click through
advertising. There is no original content on it.

 

[Kevin Weaver]

And with that, why not ask him the same question. All I see him post is
spam after someone else so fair play.

Or her. Or maybe both. All the same crap all rolled into one.

 

[Dave]

you just took the PLONK one.

 

[Kevin Weaver]

you just took the PLONK one.

Spare me. Like I care if you plonk me. hahaha You can dish it but can't take
it huh. Watch the door on the way out. It tends to smack peoples ass on the
way out.