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did an update now have two os c and d / now c crash

by spalm33 Dec 20, 2009 12:03AM PST

good morning I did an update and now I have to os, on on the c and one on the d.. I have tried to do a back up and system recovery with no luck. now the c drive will not boot I get a black screen asking to choose which os I want to use when I select the original, the system goes through the process only to come to a blue screen which goes very fast about dumping files.. I can use the d drive but I get an error message about needing to delete files because it's running low on space and when I try, it tells me I can't and the desktop profile failed to launch. the pc is a dell vosto 1000 laptop, 3600+200 GHz 1406 mb 32 bit os windows vista home basic

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Re: 2 OS'es
by Kees Bakker Dec 20, 2009 12:18AM PST

Yes, that can happen if you do something wrong. Please tell more:
- What is your c: and what's your d: (partitions on the same physical disk?) and how big are they?
- What was on your d: before you did this?
- What kind of "update" did you? From what kind of disk?
- Why did you do this update?
- What's the error message on the blue screen? Did this OS on the old drive work before this unhappy incident?

Kees

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by spalm33 Dec 20, 2009 12:35AM PST

on my d recovery 9.99 gb with 7.29 mb free on c os 45.8 gb with 10.7 gb free. not sure what was on the d. did an update from windows vista website.. the pc volume and i believe system wasn't recognising the battery. on the blue screen there's a lot of sentences somthing abt boot and error dump files corrupt and yes it worked find up until tuesday

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Re: drives
by Kees Bakker Dec 20, 2009 5:25PM PST

So d: seems to be the recovery partition and it is rather full. It's strange that it turns up in the dual-boot options. And it's unclear what changed by what you did.

In fact, everything is unclear.
- What's "an update from windows vista website"? The Windows Vista website is http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/default.aspx, but it doesn't offer any updates.
- What do you mean with "the pc volume"?
- What do you mean with "the system wasn't recognising the battery"?

And "something about boot and error dump files corrupt" isn't very informative either.

As the situation is, all I can say is "try the ctrl-F11 system recovery to bring the machine back to the state it was when you bought it". But even the success of that operation is unclear. Then maybe use your Windows Vista DVD - if you have that - to do a new installation of Vista to the c:-drive (that includes formatting).

Best of luck,


Kees

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