Windows Wont Boot

yhack · 7 Jun 2009 at 14:08

Hi,

On the family computer, for some reason Vista won't boot.
It gets to the blue progress bar, and it never seems to end. Eventually it just freezes.
When I try to boot the last known good settings it does the same.
When I try to boot in safe mode, it gets to "crcdisk.sys" and stops.

I put in the disk I used to install Vista with in the first place, but it stops at "Boot from CD/DVD" and does nothing. I can't hear the disc spinning either.

What could be the problem?

Thanks in advance.

Coxyis · 7 Jun 2009 at 14:42

Any idea of full system specs?

yhack · 7 Jun 2009 at 14:53

Ati HD 4670 512MB
AMD 64 X2 7750+ Black Edition
OCZ 500w Power Supply
Samsung Spinpoint F1 320GB
Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2 PCI-E DDR2
OCZ 4GB PC2-6400C5 Gold Series DDR2
Samsung 22x DVD±RW

Mr-White · 7 Jun 2009 at 14:53

reset the cmos
run hard disk diagnostic
run memtest

That will rule out a few possible issues

MW

yhack · 7 Jun 2009 at 16:22

I reset the cmos, then ran the Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool, which found nothing.
No cd will boot, I tried with a ubuntu cd and it just did nothing. It freezes when it says "Boot from CD/DVD:"

How should I go about doing memtest or hard disk diagnostic if it won't read CDs?

Thanks.

miniyazz · 7 Jun 2009 at 17:54

Try booting from a USB flash drive

yhack · 7 Jun 2009 at 18:53

miniyazz said:
Try booting from a USB flash drive

How can I put an iso onto a usb drive?
Should I just copy the contents of the iso onto the usb drive?
I tried googling but I didn't really find anything very helpful.

Thanks.

edit: Found something, I'll try it.

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/unetbootin/unetbootin-eeeubuntu-windows-276.exe?use_mirror= If anyone's interested

neil_g · 7 Jun 2009 at 19:32

so it wont boot from hard disk or cd/dvd?

odd, have you had any other issues with it recently? and power cuts or surges that you know of? hasnt been moved recently?

try downloading the "ultimate boot disk" and booting from that to do a chkdsk (or similar), maybe if youre trying to boot from the windows disk its trying to run a file or driver that isnt playing nicely with some hardware?

yhack · 7 Jun 2009 at 19:44

neil_g said:
so it wont boot from hard disk or cd/dvd?

odd, have you had any other issues with it recently? and power cuts or surges that you know of? hasnt been moved recently?

try downloading the "ultimate boot disk" and booting from that to do a chkdsk (or similar), maybe if youre trying to boot from the windows disk its trying to run a file or driver that isnt playing nicely with some hardware?

No, there's been no other problems with it recently and it's been in the same place for ages. A power cut could have been a possibility, but I'm not sure.
It's not booting from any disk, it simply doesn't spin the disk when I tell it to boot from the CD.

neil_g · 7 Jun 2009 at 19:57

how old is it?

i guess its a possibility that the drive controller is fried.. but on the off chance id open it up and double check all the connections to the drives. stranger things have happened than the connections having dodgy contacts..

yhack · 7 Jun 2009 at 20:00

neil_g said:
how old is it?

i guess its a possibility that the drive controller is fried.. but on the off chance id open it up and double check all the connections to the drives. stranger things have happened than the connections having dodgy contacts..

Got it at the end of February. I'll have a look at it.

yhack · 7 Jun 2009 at 20:32

Somehow, while it was off for an hour, it decided it would work when I tried to boot from the CD. I did the Windows Repair thing from the disk and now it works all good. Also Kaspersky kept telling me it was corrupt so I've fixed that too.