Vista Blue Screen

NickM · 25 Aug 2009 at 00:10

I was watching a video in WMP + browsing in FF when my system freezes and the little blue spinning circle comes up.
I can't do anything so hit the power button, now when I boot up it just sits on the loading bar for a while before blue screening and rebooting.
Helpfully it reboots before I can read what the blue screen says and have no way of finding out whats causing the problem..!

Help!

edit: Just tried to get into safe mode / safe mode console / repair and they all blue screened..

edit2: booted again and it showed me the blue screen:

unmountable_boot_volume

stop: 0x000000ED (0x891D4818, 0xC0000009C, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

update3: trying to use this neosmart recovery CD and its been stuck with a movable mouse on a black background for 40mins *sigh*

Senture · 25 Aug 2009 at 02:02

There's some information pointed out by Microsoft here that may be of use to you.

NickM · 25 Aug 2009 at 02:12

Thanks, I found that and am trying to use a recovery cd provided by neosmart but its been stuck loading for 50mins now. Are there any other alternative recovery cds since I dont have an actual vista cd? Is loading this slow normal?

edit: Finally gave up on NeoSmart after 1h 20mins. Downloading UBCD4WIN now..

NickM · 25 Aug 2009 at 12:13

UBCD4WIN needs a WinXP CD... AGH *head explodes*

update: found an old XP Pro Trial CD, made a UBCD4WIN CD from it, tried to boot it, good a blue screen :mad:

update2: Got BartPE to boot, it ran chkdsk, found some problems (lots of file record segments which are unreadable), got to stage 2 and in stage 2 after "correcting error in index $0 for file 25" twice, it tried to do it a 3rd time but had the error "insufficient disk space to correct errors in index $0 of file 25. An unspecified error occurred"

NickM · 25 Aug 2009 at 17:46

Oh dear, looks like my drive is dead, I ran the WD Diag iso and got this:

Please contact tech support - drive reported a smart error: smart attributes:

ID 1,3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12,194,196,197,198,199,200 all above threshold!
eg:
ID1. raw read error rate - value: 200 - thresh: 51 - worst: 200.

warning! one or more current or worst-case attributes are below threshold

Senture · 25 Aug 2009 at 19:09

FUBAR disk would sure explain the BSOD. Have a look on the WD website to see if your drive is still in warranty if you're not sure.

NickM · 25 Aug 2009 at 20:32

Well I've fired off an email to support so I'll see what they say.

NickM · 25 Aug 2009 at 23:00

Found an old XP Boot CD, managed to get to recovery console, ran FIXBOOT C:, now when it boots I get 'missing NTLDR', and the recovery CD thinks c: has a total size of 10344KB... help?

If I try fixmbr it tells me that my computer 'appears to have a non-standard or invalid master boot record. FIXMBR may damage your partition tables if your proceed. This could cause all the partitions on the current disk to become inaccessible. If you are not having problems accessing your drive do not continue'.
Should I continue with FIXMBR? (My computer seems to have about 5GB of unpartitioned space with no assigned drive letter according to Windows Disk Manager (which I loaded from BartPE)

On further examination in Hirens BootCD, 'my computer' tells me that the drive is now called D: and is 10mb but 'disk management' reports D: to be the full 372GB and healthy.. although now FAT not NTFS. Have I lost all the files on that disk or are they still there/recoverable?