Can't boot vista; please advise

[Bob Feduniak]

I upgraded from XP to Vista Ultimate a few months ago. All had gone
well until yesterday. Suddenly, when I try to boot, all I get is the
usual screen: "windows didn't shut down normally, so choose to
restart normally, restart in safe mode, etc." None of these works. It
also says to try your installation CD and choose "repair."

My problem: My Vista Ultimate CD is an upgrade, not a full install.
It has no "repair" option, and won't upgrade for me since the machine
already has Vista. My XP CD (presumably) has a "repair" option, but
it isn't showing up now that the machine has Vista. Do I have any
alternative but to reinstall XP?

Thanks for any advice or suggestions.

Bob Feduniak

 

[peter]

try this
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/windows_vista_repair_options.htm
peter
"Bob Feduniak" <robertfeduniak@msn.com> wrote in message
news:1184206607.440785.115960@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...
>I upgraded from XP to Vista Ultimate a few months ago. All had gone
> well until yesterday. Suddenly, when I try to boot, all I get is the
> usual screen: "windows didn't shut down normally, so choose to
> restart normally, restart in safe mode, etc." None of these works. It
> also says to try your installation CD and choose "repair."
>
> My problem: My Vista Ultimate CD is an upgrade, not a full install.
> It has no "repair" option, and won't upgrade for me since the machine
> already has Vista. My XP CD (presumably) has a "repair" option, but
> it isn't showing up now that the machine has Vista. Do I have any
> alternative but to reinstall XP?
>
> Thanks for any advice or suggestions.
>
> Bob Feduniak
>

 

[geezer10]

another reason repair option doesn't show up is that there is nothing to
repair - ie your partition is toast.
May be time for a new hard drive. Note that warranty periods on drives
vary considerably. Many drives are not built to last.


--
geezer10

 

[dean-dean]

Yes, your Vista Ultimate DVD has a Repair option, whether it be Upgrade or
Full. You have to boot to the DVD to use it. See:

How to automatically repair Windows Vista using Startup Repair
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial148.html


"Bob Feduniak" <robertfeduniak@msn.com> wrote in message
news:1184206607.440785.115960@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...
>I upgraded from XP to Vista Ultimate a few months ago. All had gone
> well until yesterday. Suddenly, when I try to boot, all I get is the
> usual screen: "windows didn't shut down normally, so choose to
> restart normally, restart in safe mode, etc." None of these works. It
> also says to try your installation CD and choose "repair."
>
> My problem: My Vista Ultimate CD is an upgrade, not a full install.
> It has no "repair" option, and won't upgrade for me since the machine
> already has Vista. My XP CD (presumably) has a "repair" option, but
> it isn't showing up now that the machine has Vista. Do I have any
> alternative but to reinstall XP?
>
> Thanks for any advice or suggestions.
>
> Bob Feduniak
>

 

[Bob Feduniak]

Thank you all for your responses. It turned out that dean-dean was
right. I had booted from the Vista Ultimate upgrade disk, but it took
so long to respond that I'd assumed it had hung. I tried it again,
and eventually the repair option did appear and did the trick.

Bob Feduniak