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    Marc Guest

    Vista won't boot/gets to blank screen with mouse

    Hi all

    I have recently installed Ubuntu 8 onto my Vista laptop, as dual boot.
    The first time I booted into Vista after installing Ubuntu- it worked fine,
    found some hardware changes and said I need to reboot.
    Attar that it BSODed on startup (in the initial logo screen)
    I managed to get into the "repair windows" option - not of the utils worked.
    I opened Notepad, clicked open and went to My Computer, right clicked on my
    D drive (usually C) and selected properties / scan.
    Rebooted to allow the scan to run, and it ran for about 1 hour fixing
    permissions.
    Now Vista will "boot" in the since that it gets to a black background with a
    mouse but nothing else.
    Any ideas? The same happens in Safe Mode, last Known Good Config, and all
    other options.
    The startup repair thing just asks for an admin password and then can't find
    anything (whereas before I ran disk check it was just crashing/didn't even
    ask for password).
    I have also fixed the Masterboot so Grub (Ubuntu's bootloader) no longer
    loads, it no goes directly to Windows - it made no difference.

    I know I am usually on here giving advice, now I could use some :) Any one
    have any suggestions (other than of course, reinstalling Windows Vista)??
    Would be grateful

    Marc W


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    Re: Vista won't boot/gets to blank screen with mouse

    Solved mine today after 4 days of search.

    HP preinstalled system with vista : Black + screen mouse pointer, safe mode idem
    no ctr+alt+del, only thing that worked was 5 times shift :)

    how did i got mine working?

    i replaced 2 main registry components with backups which vista makes
    Software and system renamed to software_old and system_old
    then renamed software_sav to software and system_sav to system

    reboot and voila, i've got a desktop to work with, but system is slow, still guess that there is an error with hdd and i noticed that i had troubles with nvidia drivers

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    Not Even Me Guest

    Re: Vista won't boot/gets to blank screen with mouse

    many times picking "Last known good configuration' from the boot menu will
    work too.

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    darkassain Guest

    Re: Vista won't boot/gets to blank screen with mouse

    do a chkdsk /f /r
    it will tell you to restart
    do so
    and see if you have the latest drivers from nvidia

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