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windows vista sp2 wont start up or run startup repair?
Ok, i have an inspiron 1525 laptop. Today i had started it up well it froze on me and i had to restart it by holding the power button down. After 4 times of that, it suddenly stopped booting to windows. It advises me to pick startup repair, i do that but it won't do anything just asks the question again, so i pick normal mode and now it loads then i get a glimpse of the blue screen of death and it restarts, thats all its been doing, i have tried safe mode but it does the same thing, blue screen of death and back to options of startup repair and start windows normally. i don't have a restore disk, i lost but i would like to have some other option to try to fix without it.
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- KarzLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Vista and its self repair feature on the hard drive is really messed up. You need the Vista installation disc or the recovery disc. Options:
1. Boot on Vista disc and choose start up repair. Repair feature keeps all files INTACT.
2. OR do a clean installation of Vista. This would wipe out all your files just like Recovery.
- 5 years ago
The computer only looked like it had frozen (sometimes it can be this way for over an hour on older machines). As a result, the O/S is half way through a basic system change and can no longer determine what files it should run. Without any restore points, you might be able to reset the computer back to its factory condition, if Dell included a hidden partition for you to do that. Or if you have a Windows disk, reinstall windows. Either way, you will lose all the data on your hard drive. If this data is invaluable, buy a new internal hard drive and swap out the old one. Buy a disk caddy to house the hard drive that you can connect to the pc using a usb cable. Install the O/S on the new drive. After all the windows updates and other software updates, like firewalls and antivirus software, connect the old drive with the cable and import your files from the old drive onto the new one. If you don't have an O/S disk, use another computer to recover your files. Remove the hard drive, put in a disk caddy as before, connect via USB. Then reinsert into the pc and run Dell's restore utility, to restore the pc to factory condition. If all this sounds like too much, take it to a repair shop and tell them you do not want to lose any data. Be prepared to pay for a new hard drive and possibly a new copy of the Windows O/S. Repair costs are quite low these days normally (get a quote), a 500GB hard drive is £50 or less and Windows 7 will cost up to £100 (don't bother with Vista again).
