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boot problems

Sep 23, 2010 6:38PM PDT

Have a begger of a prob got a comp now this is the first vista os i have delt with here had a malicis ad on it so have removed that and computer booted normaly so i then cleaned the registry and again it booted normaly then i did a reg defrag and the comp just keeped going to the first screen on where you chose setup or recovery so i did the dignostic and every thing says 100% so i did the boot recovery and all good but the last came up with
osnotinstualled
now too me that looks like it has unistalled vista but how and why some help would be most excellint

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Re: boot problems
Sep 23, 2010 6:50PM PDT

Soemhow, you made a mess of it. And it seems the defragging of the registry started it. That's lesson #1: leave the registry alone (no cleaning, no optimizing, no defragging).

Some things are not clear in your post (that might come because I don't have Vista):
- doing diagnostic when asked to choose between setup or recovery
- "all good but the last came up with osnotinstalled": what's 'all' and what is 'the last'

The 'how and why' isn't clear. But if the OS isn't installed indeed, better reinstall it from your DVD.

Kees

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os
Sep 23, 2010 7:01PM PDT

on boot recovery all checks came up as susesfull or complet
the last check it did was when it came up with the os problem.
How evey did one last go with boot recovey and got recovery is fixing the problem and will take over one hour will let you know what happens.