Problems booting up to desktop

I am trying to help an elderly neighbor who has a laptop with Vista. When you boot up, it goes into System Error and is ...

slow start up/booting vista 64

it takes 52 secs for my laptop vista 64 Home Premium to pop the log in screen & 58 after log in to load 8 start up p...

Booting spontaneously

I am running Vista Home Premium on an HP DV6000 notebook. It keeps spontaneously rebooting even when noting is running ...

Dual booting Vista and XP such that the other is invisible?

My desired setup is very simple:Dirve 0: Primary Partition for current XP, another Primary Partition for a new install o...

Dual Booting

Hi I just bought and external hardrive for my Toshiba Satellite A-200 laptop and I was wondering if there was any way th...

Vista - Booting off a stripped set

(I'm unable to post in the Vista newsgroups! Anyone knows why? The site acts as if I'm not logged in (the sign in butto...

Booting Up

After I start the computer, the internet connection icon in the lower right corner in the bar has a red "X" o...

New Vista Install onto new drive & booting problems

HiJust done a clean install onto a new drive, finally upgraded from Xp to Vista. I wired in my new hard drive & ins...

Vista Home Premium Not Booting

I'm hoping someone will be able to help me as I'm banging my head against the wall now!!booting my mates PC I get the f...

Booting my XP machine from a mapped drive on my vista machin

To anyone,Is it possible to boot one laptop on my wireless network from my mapped cd drive on another laptop on my wire...

Dual Booting with Vista Home Premium 32 Bit and Vista Ultima

I have my sytem currently with OS of Vista Home Premim 32-bit preloaded with HP Laptop ( Core 2 Duo Processor , 2 GB DDR...

Retrospective Dual Booting

Hi,I have had a trawl through the topics here and on Google to dual boot a system, but can't find the answer to my quest...

Windows Vista Not Booting..

It's not just an ordinary not bootingit doesnt show up anything after the bios screen....so i installed linux and i cant...

Vista not booting, System Restore not working

I hope I'm posting in the correct thread...My laptop is an Asus F3tc, running Vista Home Premium as it's sole OS. When I...

good computer booting slow

Hi, I have a Windows Vista x64. I never really minded the boot time since I would walk away when it boots. But when i re...

Dual Booting and Ghost Imaging

I normally work in a straight Windows Vista Business environment on my laptop using Ghost 2003 to image my setup (which...

Gateway PC booting up into System Recovery Console

I have a Gateway PC that keeps booting into the Gateway System Recovery Console all the time. System Restore does not wo...

Booting from 2nd hard disk ?

Howdy, Need some advice on the following:Current setup is HD-1 Primary SATA DRIVE AND primary boot drive Por...

Error booting system from Vista Home Basic 64-bit DVD

Hi!I currently have Vista Basic Home 32bit installed on my PC. I have the Vista Home Basic 64bit Full DVD and I would l...

Booting Vista From Laptop Harddrive on a Desktop?

Ok, so I am building a PC for the first time and the assembly wasn't too bad. Every component is powering up and seems t...

Freezing when booting

Hi,my system, after being turned off for some hours mostly frezzes while booting. I have Vista x64, Xp 32 an Win7 x64, i...

ANN: I AM NOW DUAL BOOTING WINDOWS 7 AND UBUNTU!

JUST FYI!...

choosing booting in partitioned HDD

Hey, im new here so firstly i would like to say hello :) and second i hope someone can help me with a problem.Basically...

Vista booting to a blank screen - even after a successful Re

After I rebooted my one-year old Vista PC today and saw the standard Vista progress bar, the PC rebooted on its own and...

Vista not booting every time...well most of the time

Vista Business Edition, P4 3.0GHz, 2GB RAM, 256GB HDD, 256MB ATiUpon startup it gets as far as the bullet/progress loade...

Very strange booting issue

Hi,I was wondering if anyone encountered the same thing I did. I just did a clean install of Vista ultimate, everythin...

BSOD when booting up laptop into Vista CONFIG_LIST_FAILED

I get the following error as soon as I try to boot up:CONFIG_LIST_FAILEDSTOP: 0x00000073 (0x00000001, 0xC000017D, 0x000...

Windows not starting/booting sometimes?

Hello, I came accross your forum and decided to give it a try since I saw the helpful people posting in other threads. I...

booting to Administrator

Vista Home Premium This should be easy but an internet search came up empty. I have two problems, 1) my settings for scr...

Help please with Diskpart.exe.(dual booting vista sp1 and wi

I want to partition my disk to dual boot both. When i open diskpart in the command prompt i can not partition my drive a...

Got this Error booting " Boot Failure pxe-e53 no boot filena

I was getting a error when I booted up my computer. it would say something likeBoot Failure .... pxe-e53 no boot filenam...

Setting up dual booting

HiI've just got a new computer with Vista. I want to set up a dual boot system so that I can also access XP.I have read...

Dual booting with 32 bit after 64 bit

Hi, I just purchased a machine with a 64 bit OEM. I have created another partition because I want to install 32 bit on ...

Problem booting Vista after replacing second drive

I have Vista Ultimate installed on my computer with two drives. Vista is installed on the primary c drive and the second...

dual booting with recovery media

IIf I set up a vista/linux dual boot system on my new laptop, and subsequently need to re-install vista, will the vista ...

dual booting with linux

I would like to setup a dual boot with linux. The first time I attempted to do this "I Think" the grub boot lo...

Booting

When i leave a USB flash drive in & boot the PC i get a message to remove disk. When i remove the Flash Drive the P...

Problems with booting and activation after BSOD's

Hello,my Vista x64 is working OK, but sometoimes I have a bluescreen, or have to do a hard reboot (most time this is cau...

Desktop does not appear when booting

I have a copy of Vista which does not start properly in normal or safe mode. The desktop does not appear.When the PC bo...

Dual booting XP and Vista

Hi all,I have had visa and xp in a multi boot configuration. However, decided that I do not need xp any more.I have vis...

Good system booting extremly slow

Hi, I have a Windows Vista x64. I never really minded the boot time since I would walk away when it boots. But when i re...

Dual booting Vista and xp - but a twist

Hello, and thanks to all who read/respond. Background info: vista installed on drive 1 xp installed on drive 2 dual boot...

Error booting Vista most of the times but not always..?!?!?!

I installed Windows a few days ago. Sometimes (1 out of 5 times) it boots well, but most of the times I get an error whi...

Booting The Right Way Only Takes a Little More and Solves My

How to boot the PC.Go to Start. Select SHUTDOWN. Let the PC turn off. Go to the back of the PC and either pull the plug ...

Dual booting vista 32 and 64 bit problem

When I try to boot my 32 bit windows vista ultimate, it gives me a BSOD and restarts. I have an asus g50-vtx1 originally...

Windows XP Booting

[image: http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/3532/23072008110ib8.jpg]How do I delete the second "Microsoft Windows XP...

Vista Home PRemium Booting Problems

Windows Vista wil not boot unless I hit F8 and boot from last known configuration - It was running off battery yesterd...

Vista booting vs. boot.ini

Hi,Can someone explain to me the logic of Vista booting?I have a PC with: - one SATA HD - one DVD drive on IDE2 master -...

Unable to load RAID drivers while booting

Hello,I've installed Vista x64 on my PC with a Highpoint RocketRAID 2310 controller. Whle installing Windows, I provided...

How to Eliminate XP Setup Option from Booting Vista?

Hello Board!I am running Vista now but I attempted to install XP Pro for dual booting. However, when I decided to elimin...

Windows Vista, not booting, no safe mode, no repair, help ap

Alright, first off I'll explain the situation.A bit before my system started failing, I was having issues with windows ...

Booting Vista from external drive violate MS EULA?

I imagine that a determined Vista user could find a way to boot Vista from an external hard drive.Question is, would it...

booting inactive vista

HelloI turned DEP off by reading at vistax64 forum. when i rebooted, a big problem raised. windows vista ( home premium...

Problems Dual booting.

I have 4 harddrives. 2 SATA 2 and 2 IDE. 1 is my primary with Vista 64 Ultimate. The second is the one that holds my Li...

Last Windows Update Problem (not booting even in safe mode)

HiAfter the last automatic windows update (09 Jul 08) the notebook is booting in a loop.Boot -> Black screen with th...

windows vista not booting up

hi i insalled vista ultimate and every time i go to restart the PC it will shout down but it won"t restart it stay...

HELP - Vista 32bit Not Booting.

Need help please, I cant get my main pc to boot correctly, it will load windows all the way to just before the user acc...

will not finsh booting

I have to press ctrl/alt/del to vista home to finish booting after that it works great this is new just a few days afte...

Booting Vista in Safe Mode

I have a dell laptop with Vista factory installed. The other day is stopped booting and it can not repair itself. I am ...

Why is my vista64 so slow in booting up?

Hello, I have a vista ultimate 64 installed on my workstation. HW is as follows: Motherboard Tyan S2915 2x CPU Opteron ...

Only booting up in Power Save after outage

Last night my power went out. Every time my power fails Vista will only start up in safe mode. If I try to start it norm...

Sporadic Booting Up

Sometimes Vista boots up alright on Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop. Other times, only dark screen. When I try again, Vista...

No Booting form DVD-Drive

Hello!Why do older computers not boot from a DVD-Drive?Is it the DVD-Drive or the mainboard (with its BIOS or the onboar...

Booting from external hard drive

Okay, this is new territory for me so I have lots of questions. I've got an XP machine (Dell) that's dying (motherboar...

problem while booting

Hi All,I have some problem in my laptop. It behaves very strangely. when I start my laptop while booting I always get me...