BSOD at Vista Boot

[banjankri]

Normally I know enough about computers to fix the problems I create myself, but from time to time a problem springs up and I have no idea how to fix it, or even what the problem actually is.

My laptop won't boot up Windows Vista. It blue screens about 5 seconds into Vista loading up, then it retarts itself. The error code is... "0x0000007b (0x80599bb0, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)" The problem all started out of nowhere when I returned home from watching my sisters kids. I had downloaded and update of some kind that seemed perfectly innocuous, it installed, I shut my computer down and when i got home and tried to boot it up, that's what it told me, and has told me everytime time since. The Repair utillities that I can run won't touch whatever the problem is. I've run system restore but it doesn't do anything. And I thought I had backups made, but apparently the backup utility won't even recognize them. I'd just re-install Windows, but Acer never gave me a re-install cd. Actually, it never came with any cd's. Apparently it's been put onto a Partition on the hard drive that never gets deleted when you re-install. Only problem is, before I do re-install it (however I manage to do that) there's some pretty important crap I need off the C drive, and possibly the D drive.

Now, it's been lying around for a bout a month and I'm getting pretty sick of not being able to use it.

If anyone has any ideas or anything of use I am eternally grateful!

Hi,

That's going to be a tough one with a disk to boot from. 0x7B, or
"inaccessible_boot_device", can have several causes. These would included a
corrupted system volume, hardware failure, virus, or bad device driver. In
most cases, loading to at least the boot menu where you can try the last
known good configuration. You'll need a disk to load the recovery
environment where you can try running the disk checker.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"banjankri" <banjankri.3i54ed@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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>
> Normally I know enough about computers to fix the problems I create
> myself, but from time to time a problem springs up and I have no idea
> how to fix it, or even what the problem actually is.
>
> My laptop won't boot up Windows Vista. It blue screens about 5 seconds
> into Vista loading up, then it retarts itself. The error code is...
> "0x0000007b (0x80599bb0, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)" The
> problem all started out of nowhere when I returned home from watching my
> sisters kids. I had downloaded and update of some kind that seemed
> perfectly innocuous, it installed, I shut my computer down and when i
> got home and tried to boot it up, that's what it told me, and has told
> me everytime time since. The Repair utillities that I can run won't
> touch whatever the problem is. I've run system restore but it doesn't
> do anything. And I thought I had backups made, but apparently the
> backup utility won't even recognize them. I'd just re-install Windows,
> but Acer never gave me a re-install cd. Actually, it never came with
> any cd's. Apparently it's been put onto a Partition on the hard drive
> that never gets deleted when you re-install. Only problem is, before I
> do re-install it (however I manage to do that) there's some pretty
> important crap I need off the C drive, and possibly the D drive.
>
> Now, it's been lying around for a bout a month and I'm getting pretty
> sick of not being able to use it.
>
> If anyone has any ideas or anything of use I am eternally grateful!
>
>
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In article <banjankri.3i54ed@DoNotSpam.com>,
banjankri <banjankri.3i54ed@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:
>
>If anyone has any ideas or anything of use I am eternally grateful!
>

Remove the hard drive and connect it to another computer
using a usb-ide adaptor. They're about 20 bucks and available anywhere.
If you use a Linux machine it'll be easier because Linux is more forgiving
about damaged media and filesystems. Mount the drive and copy your data.

Now reinstall the drive in the laptop and use the factory
restore procedure.