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Black Screen - Fixed
jraju:
Hi, Rick, If it is a registry problem, All in one tool by Shane would have fixed it. Have you tried mbr fix. You have reported that mbrfix not available. Please it is available when you log in thro the installation cd. The method is
Have the installation cd, and when prompt from cd comes enter to boot installation cd, and then when windows show start windows screen, select R for repairing and then enter 1 and password to go to c:\windows. Type FIXMBR to fix the unwanted entries other than the windows default mbr entries. Select yes if a warning message comes and then exit. Your problem would be getting solved. This even though seemed confusing will reset the mbr. Because the software downloaded might have included some entries to the mbr, making it vulnerabe for improper behaviour.
Rick:
--- Quote from: jraju on May 29, 2013, 09:50:24 pm ---Hi, Rick, If it is a registry problem, All in one tool by Shane would have fixed it. Have you tried mbr fix. You have reported that mbrfix not available. Please it is available when you log in thro the installation cd. The method is
Have the installation cd, and when prompt from cd comes enter to boot installation cd, and then when windows show start windows screen, select R for repairing and then enter 1 and password to go to c:\windows. Type FIXMBR to fix the unwanted entries other than the windows default mbr entries. Select yes if a warning message comes and then exit. Your problem would be getting solved. This even though seemed confusing will reset the mbr. Because the software downloaded might have included some entries to the mbr, making it vulnerabe for improper behaviour.
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J, Shane said his program does not run in a stand-alone or boot up, his tool can not run from a boot-CD... it can only work within a windows system already running. “A Fault that should be fixed”
Currently, I have enabled the new drive; used minitool too copy; the old C: and D: to the new drive.
I re-installed Windows on a new drive to be sure system will even work, updated it back to VistaSP2;
Now “X Coping” in Overwrite mode the following directories back to the new hard drive;
Will try let startup-repair recover the BCD in startup repair mode; otherwise will copy the BCD from the new install drive to the new hard drive "hopefully, the BCD here will at least boot up"
\Drivers
\Inf
\System
\System32
\Winsxs "we should consider to point the operating system to one (winsxs folder), it will save 10G's"
“Note that we should rename the pending-file in the WINSXS folder”
“X copy” Users last or next try, "depends on whether we get a boot or not after the above"
Anything folders I missed?
One issue; we need a program that will run in standalone mode to open the registry. Then we can merge an old registry into the stand alone mode and restart from their should work ok... "I did not find one to do that"
I did not use this method; but it would have helped!
http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-offline-registry-edit.html
jraju:
Hi, Rick, Thanks for the reply. But did you try mbr fix. ? This you can try from your installation cd.. If the problem is fixed then everyone will be happy. I think the other thing, is to me , is not possible as all the files in the cd is not readable and machine coded contains something like ddl_.
Rick:
Well, we copied all those files, no luck
yes, I did the MBRFIX already, ran the /enum to check the entries. correctly.
Need copy the rest of the new install to the old windows folder, see whats really up then
Question; which folders holds the system operating system folders?
Shane, what your next plan here?
Shane:
--- Quote ---Shane said his program does not run in a stand-alone or boot up, his tool can not run from a boot-CD... it can only work within a windows system already running. “A Fault that should be fixed”
--- End quote ---
Its not a fault that can be fixed, my code is written in VB which need Windows to run. And some things, such as registering files can only be done in Windows anyways, not a fault of my program there :-)
--- Quote ---I re-installed Windows on a new drive to be sure system will even work, updated it back to VistaSP2;
Now “X Coping” in Overwrite mode the following directories back to the new hard drive;
--- End quote ---
So you where able to install vista fine on the new drive and it works.
Then you tried to copy over everything from the old drive. This doesn't always work. And xcopy isnt the best for this. Better off booting up with the ubuntu live cd and doing the copy from there. You can see files that Windows normally hides.
It is also possible something important for the system on the old drive is corrupted from the bad sectors and could also be the problem.
First do the unbunt live cd to copy the entire drive over and see how that goes. :wink:
Shane
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