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TI10: vista restored but no boot

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Hi All,

since last Windows update (somewhen in week45) my Vista does not boot anymore. I found that the boot sequence of my hardrives was mixed up in the bios (for whatever reason). I changed the hard drive sequence until vista was found on drive C:, as it was before. But, what surprise, it doesn't boot at all. However, the following several trials to repair vista were not succesful.
I've decided to just restore my old and clean vista backup with TIH10. The backup files were checked (validation successful) and restored (also successful). So far so good, The reboot of the machine shows only the first microsoft corporation text line and falls back to a reboot after that.
The boot with Vista install cd works fine, I interupted the repair and made the following tests:
- memory tests ->successful
- chckdsk -> succesful
- bootrec -> shows vista on drive C:

I continued with safe-mode-boot of vista, the DOS likely scrren shows a list of drivers loaded and after a short while a blue screen appears, which removes very quickly so that I can't report what it stated.

After that I activate again my Acronis OS selector and tried to boot W2K (its located on same HD but other partition). The same story: the boot sequence is interupted by a blue screen stating "inaccessible boot device", which is surprising, W2K worked perfect before the trouble with vista begun.

Has anyone an idea how I could resolve the problem??
Any help is highly appreciated.

MAny thanks for your efforts!

Wolfgang

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Wolfgang,
Hopefully someone else with more experience can provide some assistance.

Assuming that you have a full disk backup which includes all your partitions (everything included), my approach would be to perform a disk option restore and let it restore the entire disk to a new blank disk. I would avoid trying to restore single partitions.

Performing the restore when booted from the TI Rescue CD.
After restore, shutdown and disconnect other drives and boot only with the new disk attached.

Hi GroverH,

thanks, for your quick reply.

Unfortunately I haven't a full disk backup, only backups from single partitions (:-((, that might be a disadvantage now. While reading some other posts, ..., I wasn't aware 'til now that Vista (as well as OS selector tools) is manipulating the MBR from time to time.
Few month ago I had trouble with "malious software removal tool" from microsoft (it mixed up my BIOS boot configuration, as described above). Wondering if myself made a mistake, but it looks like that's a 'normal' behaviour of these kind of tools (and OS), because now i have the same phenomenon.

Regards,
Wolfgang

Wolfgang,

Have you tried using the Vista repair CD to auto repair since recovering the partition? You might need to run the CD more than once as with Vista onwards it only repairs one error each time it is run.

Colin,

after the first Vista crash I started using the vista repair CD and perform several repair sessions, but the message "could not repair, should I send ...to microport".. appears. After that I restored Vista from the Backup and that ended in the above described "deadlock".

It's still pending...

BTW how many repair trials shows I give vista, just to get an idea ?

Wolfgang

Wolfgang,

About 3 - 4, if that still doesn't work, the next thing would be to boot from the Disk Director CD and try re-activating the OSS. It is probably this that is causing the problem.