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Question

Windows Vista with repair CD

Apr 25, 2011 3:52PM PDT

Hello all. Having a bit of trouble with a repair cd. Trying to fix my friends computer. Starting up, it gives me the option to run windows repair or start normally. Doing either will make it hang on the vista home 32 (I believe) load screen. Starting into safemode hangs on crcdisk.sys. I tried a windows vista repair cd. Selected to boot from the cd drive. It seems like it completely skips it and goes right back to the "start windows normally or windows repair" screen. I even tried making a bootable vista repair disk from a USB and nothing.

Any ideas on what to do?

Toshiba satellite a205 with windows vista (home) is about all I know about this computer.

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Clarification Request
BIOS settings
Apr 25, 2011 8:55PM PDT

Does the BIOS allow for booting from a CD? The CD/DVD optical drive should be 'first in the list' in the BIOS Boot Order or Boot Priority listing.

This crcdisk.sys error is common and there is no single solution for it. Often the best way to resolve it is to simply reinstall Vista.

If the Toshiba satellite came with a hidden recovery partition that may be the best way to go. Other than that, have a look at the two 'long' discussions I found about this in other forums;

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistaapps/thread/8b95be75-dc9f-4de3-b8db-3e1811899ce6/

http://www.thewinforums.com/threads/10673-Resolved-Crcdisk.sys-problem-again...

But don't expect this to be easy.

Mark

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Thanks
Apr 26, 2011 4:27AM PDT

Thanks.
Was reading both posts. Trying what they say now.

If all else fails I might try to install xp on it if I can to at least get in. It's just odd that it won't recognize a restore cd at all (I do have it set to boot from cd) and also tried that + manually selecting to boot from cd.

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Working
Apr 26, 2011 6:15AM PDT

Just got it working. Was looking at those forum posts. Didnt seem to help my situation. Left the repair cd in for awhile after trying the safemode + restart on crcdisk.sys hang as stated in the forums...next restart the recovery went through. Awesome.

Thanks for your help.

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(NT) That's great, and glad you got it sorted.
Apr 27, 2011 9:10PM PDT