Re: Cant start Vista after changing partions


Chad Harris;1037047 Wrote:
"simcityfreak4" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eab3f4ecd9aba924db2f60697993ed5c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >

I could really use some help with this error, its got me stumped. I
have
Vista Home Premium SP1 32 bit. Here is the story.

I wanted to try out Windows 7, but I didn't want to upgrade Vista yet
because it was still in beta. So I was going to dual-boot Windows 7
and
Vista. I downloaded a copy of linux that was designed for
partitioning
so that I could partition my hard drive. Before I partitioned it
with
linux, I had just one partition for Vista and that was it. I had
linux
trim it down about 30 gigs and then make a new partition with that
free
space. It did all that and didnt report any errors. So I restarted
my
computer and the windows loading screen came up for about a second
untill it said "Windows failed to start and a recent hardware or
software change might be the cause". And it gave the the option of
starting windows normally or to launch startup repair. I picked
start
windows normally and it went back to the loading screen. After a few
seconds at that it gave me a BSOD for about a second before it
restarted. I was able to see the error number before it restarted.
It
was 0x000000ED. So after it restarted it went back to the same
message
again. I picked launch startup repair that time. It then told me
that
I should get my Vista install disk that run the repair tools. It
also
said at the bottom "Status: 0xc000000f" and "Info: The boot selection
failed because a required device is inaccessible". After that I went
and downloaded a Vista repair disk because my HP laptop restore disk
doesnt have any repair options. So I burned that to a disk and went
to
the repair tools and it asked me to pick an OS to repair, but there
was
no OS in the list. This confused me since it could get the loading
screen up but no OS avaliable on the repair disk. I then got my
linux
livecd to see if linux could access it, but it gave me an error as
well.
(A picture of it is attached)

Does anyone have any idea what I can try next? I can live without
the
files on the hard drive, but at the very least I would like to save
some
of the files on it. My main thing is to get access to the files just
so
I can save them, I can reinstall Vista.

Thanks for any help!


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simcityfreak4 > > Hi simcity--

I'm guessing that you used one of my faves to do your partition
resizing
G-Parted Live from Gnu/or Gnome but
it might have been some other Linux utility. I've had good
experiences with
G-Parted, but I know it can hide boots on multiboot systems, but
usually it
can be repaired promptly and easily using three bootrec switches from
the
command prompt you can access on the Vista DVD (or if you didn't have
a
Vista DVD) you can download the .iso to make a Startup Repair DVD.
This
useful feature is also available from the All Programs Menu in Win 7
under
Maintenance, in all builds, and was hidden in the Vista SP1 and SP2
System
32 folders in because someone who had top shot calling power at
Redmond with
those service packs has a devilish sense of humor and gets intense
pleasure
in thinking about how many Seattle/Mercer Island Soccer Mom's are
perusing
system 32 utilities and then want to tweak UAC permissions to make
recdisc.exe in the Vista Syste 32 folder work. Maybe the eleven
year old
kid in the "I'm a PC" commercials is regularly perusing system 32 for
its
hidden value, or perhaps Bill Gates or Jim Alchin's kids. I dunno.

That error generated is an interesting error, but it almost seems
like an
answer on a group or forum. What sometimes happens is that use of
G-Parted
or another Linux partition manager hides a boot or can damage the BCD
but
this is rare. The reason that people use G-Parted is that it simply
can do
more things with more versatility than Disk Management in Vista or
Win 7
can, although to their credit, MSFT did make it fault tolerant as of
Vista,
which means when it does what it does, if the partitions are in the
right
place or adjacent to the right partitions with enough space to work
with,
you will not lose anything when it resizes or formats a particular
partition
that you're not in. In Windows XP, Disk Management wasn't "fault
tolerant",
and when you used it, you had to be backed up and prepared to lose
everything. G-Parted will add space to a given partition if it's
available,
and it formats with warp speed, faster than Disk Management.
Sometimes, for
unexplained reasons, Disk Management ghosts partitions you want to
resize or
format, and that's one compelling reason people turn to Linux apps or
utilities (whichever you want to call them) to do what it DM won't
do.

Using G-Parted to Resize Win Vista Partitions

'Using GParted to Resize Your Windows Vista Partition :: the How-To
Geek'
(http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/)

The link above has nice screenshots, but it doesn't tell you two
crucial
things that I will.

1) To make G-Parted actually apply changes, you have to put your
mouse on
the lower rt. corner of its interface and drag that sucker to the
right
(make it the width of your desktop).

2) The link indicates Startup Repair will fix things in the rare
event you
can't boot. Frequently as you're finding out, it doesn't but almost
always,
doing the bootrec commands will and what it's probably doing is
rebuilding
the BCD when it gets you back. The fixboot command is also important
in
some situations or in conjunction with the rebuild BCD command. Some
of the
guys who work on Windows Setup teams at Redmond and Startup would
definitely be good sources to discuss this, like Darrell Gorter
[MSFT] who
has been generous helping here, but that's my take as far as I can
analyze
it.

Here's what I've seen fix this:

I don't think you need this link because you've alrerady been booting
to the
Startup Repair menu, but your friends without Vista DVDs might:

Download Vista Repair Disk
'Windows Vista Recovery Disc Download &#x2014; The NeoSmart Files'
(http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/)

Try this:

If Startup Repair does not get your Vista back, then use the 3
bootrec
commands from the command prompt available on the Statup Repair Menu:

The menu I refer to is in this set of directions with a grey
background.

'Windows Vista Home Premium - Repair StartUp'
(http://vistahomepremium.windowsreinstall.com/repairstartup/repairstartup.htm)

Those are:

bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuild BCD

After typing each command switch at the command prompt, you'll get a
quick
"Successful" for the first two switches, and it will take about 30
seconds
or less to get that response from the 3rd one. Use all of them, and
it
takes just a few seconds anyway.

Good luck,

CH

@DemonSpeed: I tried to use that built in tool but it wouldnt let me
free up more than about 8 gigs, that wouldnt be enough. I dont have a
Vista install disk, I just have the restore disk that came with my
computer.

@Chad Harris: I have tried the repair disk but there was no OS in the
list to choose from to repair. Its just empty. I clicked on next
anyways soI could launch a command prompt. I ran the first two without
problems. When I ran the third one, it said it identified zero windows
installations. When it was at the choose OS to repair, I picked load
drivers just to see if I could access the C drive and it said I had to
format it. I also ran Startup Repair anyways ever though I couldnt pick
an OS to repair. After it was done running it told me it could not fix
the problem it found. t So I clicked on view scan details and it said
that problem was "Boot sector for system disk partition is corrupt" and
it had an error code for 0x490 next to it.


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simcityfreak4
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