Vista Issues

[Seth]

Hey guys.

Having some trouble getting Vista to boot, as every time I boot up the machine it's going straight into chkdsk claiming that the disk needs checking for consistency. I've had this run before on other machines, but on this one it's looping. Every boot it runs the utility, finds and "fixes" indexing errors with the same files and then restarts.

Any ideas?

[coldintheshower]

Originally Posted by Seth

Hey guys.

Having some trouble getting Vista to boot, as every time I boot up the machine it's going straight into chkdsk claiming that the disk needs checking for consistency. I've had this run before on other machines, but on this one it's looping. Every boot it runs the utility, finds and "fixes" indexing errors with the same files and then restarts.

Any ideas?

This happend to me recently. I'm afraid I tried everything and nothing worked. Ended up having to run recovery disk. This fixed everything but obviously wiped my lappy.

If you have found a way to solve it though i would like to know.

[Seth]

I think I found the problem, as a couple of files from Vista's System directory had been corrupted. Don't know how, though. Couldn't repair the files (as I don't have a Vista disk or a backup of the files) so the only solution was to reinstall from scratch.

Sucky.

[Harv]

You should have a copy of your install disk really but I would download an iso if you haven't.

A good idea when building systems is to take a system backup using the built in software before you install stuff then you can restore the base image at any time. All you need to do then is keep a recent backup of your registry hive ( do a system state backup which creates a pretty small file ) and if the O/S files corrupt you can restore your base image and then restore your registry hive followed by a system restore point to get you back to a fairly recent state of working.

The fact you re-install over your original O/S means that only the registry will be altered ( new install no program entries ) but the system state will restore your registry and most of your installed apps should then work again.

You will still get a few problems but most will be solved by either an app re-install or a few dlls being re-registered.

I would be inclined to check your drive for problems tho as vista doesn't corrupt files very often on its own