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Vista will not boot all the way?!?

by elfen-lied Dec 9, 2009 9:03AM PST

Ok so two years ago I went out and spoiled myself and got a Gateway fx notebook. So before I forget here is all the relevant data on my laptop.
Its a Gateway P-6831FX Notebook
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo processor 1.67 GHz 1.67 GHz
Memory: 3GB DDR2
Video: NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS w/512MB GDDR3 discrete video memory
HardDrive: 250GB
OpticalDrive: DVD RW Super Multi Drive with dual-layer capability
Network/Connectivity: Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965
Anything more specific can be found on the gateway website, its fairly easy to find the specs on this notebook there. Ok now for the issue. OK so i start up my computer, all is well,l untill it gets to the primarly black screen with the words Microsoft Corporation at the bottom of the screen, and a bar with smaller green bars passing through it. It will sit at this point for as long as i leave it on. Ive tried booting in all maners of safe mode from Safe mode, to safe mode with networking and command prompt, But when i try doing that it will load up to windows\system32\drivers\crcdisk then it will go to a blue sscreen and restart. Attempting to Boot from the Vista disk it will go to the screen with the gry bar at the bottom that fills white as it loads and the words "windows is loading files" above it, then it goes to the microsoft corporation screen as it would if i booted it normaly, then to a black screen that after waiting for a few minutes a mouse cursor will show up on the screen. it can be moved, but absolutly nothing else happens, it just sits at this screen forever. This is where im stumped. About the only thing i have been able to do so far is run a memory diagnostic, which has come up with nothing and done nothing to aid me :\ any help is ever so gratefully appreciated.

If I can later think of something that may be relevant i will post it. Right now im using my old WIndows ME XD

~Elfen

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What I'd try next.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 9, 2009 9:55AM PST

To see if it's some hard drive contents I take a machine like this and then slip in a blank hard disk for testing. We try and restore the OS to that.

If it works we are looking at either a software issue or a funky hard drive.

Before all this we'll have unplugged any USB device and returned the machine to "stock."
Bob

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XD
by elfen-lied Dec 9, 2009 10:14AM PST

Thanks for the suggestion Bob, but XD I dont realy happen to have a spare HDD just laying around Happy But again thanks for the help Wink
Any other ideas?

!!!to state this before it is suggested, i also cannot load System recovery tools. It ends up with a similar result as trying to boot from the vista disk!!!

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That's the issue.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 9, 2009 10:57AM PST

It costs just a little to avoid a wipe out and restore the OS. Let's see who cheap this can be?

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ST960813AS-R&cat=HDD

That's under 20 bucks and we could add some 8 dollar USB case to take the edge off the purchase.

This is a bench trick I learned long ago to quickly sniff out what's going on without lengthy time (which costs a lot) backup and restore of the laptop hard drive.
Bob

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