Enter the following commands to fix the issue.Get in to WINRE (repair your computer) option.Hi, you might be lucky and the registry backup's might work you will need a copy of the Vista OS dvd and boot from it, may have to access BIOS and set first boot device to cd rom. Sfc /scannow produces the same result as before when attempted after chkdsk c: /r /x Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.ġ9100 allocation units available on the disk.įailed the transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50. Security descriptor verification completed. Suggestions to avoid that would be greatly appreciated.CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors. I'm at the point where a backup, reinstall, restore data is my only known option. None of the disks I have tried allow that the Upgrade option is always greyed out. I'd like to do a Repair Install of Vista, but have never found a way to do that when Vista won't boot. I have tried using a System Restore Point, but it says that there are none. Startup Repair has tried several times but still cannot determine the cause of the problem. The SftTrail folder has nothing I found of interest (all error codes are 0x0) and ends with:

I have run SFC from a BartPE disk (specifying the other disk to check) and it doesn't find any errors. If I look at details, I see the following report: It eventually errors out telling me that it is unable to repair the system. If I try to boot to Windows, it starts with the Windows screen, followed by a blank screen with a white mouse arrow, then a Gateway screen, then attempts an automatic repair. I ran chkdsk on it and nothing significant was found. I have run antivirus and antispyware scans (connected the drive as the second drive in another system) with nothing significant found. I believe that the problem was started by an unsuccessful installation of SP1, though the customer is rather vague about that. I have resolved a number of boot errors, but have not been successful at getting it to load completely, even in Safe Mode. I am trying to fix a Windows Vista 32-bit system on a Gateway laptop that won't boot.

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