Big problems please help

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Today my system started playing up, slowing up and freezing.
I decided to format and reinstall vista as it's been six months since
first problem was errors when loading files off vista disk. Got passed that then when installed and booted for the first time I get the disk checking tool up with errors all over the place. Now I bootup set my boot device priority in bios to my cd drive to try and reinstall, bootup and I'm now getting bootmgr is missling press alt con and delete hmmmm
this is a loop
is my HD goosed?
Sorry about grmar I'm on my iPhone
any ideas pls
 
In the vista setup I can get it to complete but when it restarts I'm getting windows is starting for first time then bsod and reboot
 
If my instalation disk is scratched and during installation I'm getting messages that say can't read from source, but continues to install, could that be causing my bsod
 
Thanks for help
I'm begoning to think it's either the HD or instalation disk is damaged
now getting after failed install
windows failed to start \windows\system32\winload.Exe
status 0xc0000221
 
Update
got hold of samsung Diogenes tool
now boots into Diog software and says
can't open cd driver cd001
your ram drive is loaded at c out of memory error
I'm then at c:\>

any ideas
 
I'm just running memtest86 now
39% no errors so far
so if memtrst comes thru clear I can definatly rule out memory?
Where do I start then
 
ooh 713 errors and counting
so looks like this is the prob
will it tell me which slot or slots are bad
 
No, i dont think it will tell you which slot, if it tells you the problems on the 1st or second ram or what ever. For Eg. corsair 2gb corsair 2gb, if its the second one, it will be you second memory stick to the first memory slot. Eg. 2gb free 2gb free. it will be the second slot. Im really poor at explaining things but im sure you will get what you mean. Btw, when you rma memory, you have to send it as you got it so it means all of the memory. Not just the faulty stick.

Lol u lost me there dude
 
Memtest86+ I'm running
il have to buy new if it's all 8gigs worth
I drove to the shop to buy and I have lost receipts arghhhh
 
Am I right in thinking that if I have 4 sticks of 2 gig ram and. My errors are shown at 6124mb my 3rd stick is the problem stock?
 
for all of you that helped me out this morning and last night
;) many thanks ;)
after i completed the memtest with 40000+ errors in the test i decided to take out what i thought was the dud stick, and hey presto clean installation and alls running well.
i never thought things could go so **** up with a dodgy stick of memory ! :eek:
so im now running 6gig as appose to 8
once again many thanks guys :p
 
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