Broken vista, or broken hardware?????

Thomas. PLease. · 17 Oct 2007 at 14:33

Hi there, so this morning i wake up and go to boot up my computer. :eek:

Vista starts to boot, and after the small scrolly thing moves across the page, where normally the password box would appear, nothing.....

So i leave it and still nothing. i don;t really know whats causing this. i suspect maybe hard drive failure? as i am now booting off an old xp hard drive. however i can still access the vista drive from this install.

Either that or maybe it is the vista install that has been corrupted or somehting.

Does anybody know what the problem could be. Many thanks tom.

uv · 17 Oct 2007 at 14:38

Have you tried booting Vista into Safe Mode at all?

Thomas. PLease. · 17 Oct 2007 at 14:39

uvmain said:
Have you tried booting Vista into Safe Mode at all?

sorry forgot to mention this, i did try booting into safe mode, but it froze at cmcdisk i think, if i remember it right. which is another reason i think it might be hard drive related?

Priapus · 17 Oct 2007 at 14:41

Have you done a scan on the Vista hard drive, under the Windows XP instlation?

Thomas. PLease. · 17 Oct 2007 at 14:45

Ice On Fire said:
Have you done a scan on the Vista hard drive, under the Windows XP instlation?

just doing it now, worrying thing is that i know i only have around 70Gb of space left on it (250gb drive) and in Xp its saying i have 100gb free :eek:

Priapus · 17 Oct 2007 at 14:58

Hmmm. Doesn't sound too good, to be honest.

Durzel · 17 Oct 2007 at 16:01

How long did you leave it on "nothing"? Reason I ask is that a couple of times I've booted and had to wait a good 2-3 minutes before I got the Vista startup sound...

Thomas. PLease. · 17 Oct 2007 at 17:47

Durzel said:
How long did you leave it on "nothing"? Reason I ask is that a couple of times I've booted and had to wait a good 2-3 minutes before I got the Vista startup sound...

just left it on for about 15 mins still nothing. If it is my hard drive failing, is this likely as i can still access all the files from my xp hard drive. So i'm worried that if i try to repair the vista install it somehow might destroy the drive completley and then i'd lose all my data. Worrying as i don;t really have any room to backup much.

Priapus · 17 Oct 2007 at 18:31

What results came back from the HDD scan? Make of HDD? Go to the makers website and get a dianostic (sp?) tool?

Thomas. PLease. · 17 Oct 2007 at 20:32

Ice On Fire said:
What results came back from the HDD scan? Make of HDD? Go to the makers website and get a dianostic (sp?) tool?

didn't get anything from the hard drive scan, make is western digital caviar.

Priapus · 17 Oct 2007 at 20:44

Did you get a tool off their website to check the drive?