Hi again

Rick Rogers, thanks heaps for replying again,

No DOS (doesn't exist anyways), the non-gui mode is available from the
boot
menu by hitting F8 at startup. You don't need an installation disk for
this.

:o Oh DOS doesn't exist anymore.. Fair enough, I haven't had to repair
my computers for a fair while! Well anyway I hit F8 to bring up the
"advanced options" and selected the "Safe mode with Command Prompt"
which was the option I assume I was meant to select. It done the same
thing again! Loaded the files for that option, "pretended" it was going
to load and then shutdown and rebooted :( Never stopped long enough to
come up with an area to type in rstrui.exe.

I went through the other options available - debugging etc - but each
option caused the same result.

I clicked on the "do not restart on error" option (something like that)
so it would show me the error code. It came up with the "Problem has
been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your
computer. Please follow these steps ...." Then in the technical
information section listed this code:
"***STOP: 0x0000C1F5 (0X0000000000000009,0X0000000000000001,
0XFFFFFA800610D000,0X0000000000000000)"

Not sure if that means anything to you, or anyone for that matter :)
When I try to boot from the Vista DVD it comeS up with a similar code,
its :
"***STOP: 0x0000C1F5 (0X0000000000000009,0X0000000000000001,
0XFFFFFA80D4203000,0X0000000000000000)"
[color=blue]
> -Are you saying just install another copy of Vista in a different
> folder then try to repair from there?[/color]

No, I'm saying you can create a new installation and recover your data
from
it. You can't do a repair install of the old installation unless you
can
boot it.

I don't think I am able to create a new installation because when I put
the DVD into the drive and restart all that it does is ask me to "push
any button to load from DVD" which I do, then it just starts to load
files, and comes up with the message listed above.

Please let me know if I have misunderstood what you are saying or if
you have anymore ideas :confused:

Thanks for helping, hope to hear from you soon!

Kind Regards
Sam


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