Won't start, repair or restore.

[reecemiddleton]

I've had prolonged problems with my computer; blue screen crashes around 5-10 times a day, everyday for past 2 years. Anyway my problem today is that finally it will not start up.

I get the start repair (recommend) or start windows normally. The latter of the two just fails and restart the computer. When clicking repair it say it cannot repair automatically leaving with these problem details:

Rroblem Signatgure:
Problem Event Name: StartupRepairOffline
Problem Signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 02: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 03: unknown
Problem Signature 04: 21200931
Problem Signature 05: AutoFailover
Problem Signature 06: 15
Problem Signature 07: 0xa

When I try to system restore it also fails and say this:

System Restore failed while deleting the following file/directory Path😀:\windows\system32\codeintegrity

unknown error (0x8007010b)

I have also gone into advanced boot settings and tried safe mode which also failed and restarted the computer the same goes with trying last good configuration which also does the same.

I have also tried repair disc and back up disc I have but I don't if it some I'm doing wrong but they are not loading.

Please any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[reecemiddleton]

Ooops, as I said, you cannot do a repair install on a system updated to SP1 with the original pre-SP1 disk.

You have two choices, uninstall SP1 prior to repair install or much easier, download the SP1 trial image and use that to do the repair install from the link in my first post. Of course, either way you use your activation key when it's all good.

So I just burn the ISO to the disk?

 

[dodger46]

So I just burn the ISO to the disk?

If you've downloaded the SP1 edition, then, yes...

 

[RealBeast]

So I just burn the ISO to the disk?

Yes, unless you want to install from a USB stick (4Gb or bigger), then you would need THIS TOOL from Microsoft along with that DVD image you got already from Digital River.

 

[reecemiddleton]

Yes, unless you want to install from a USB stick (4Gb or bigger), then you would need THIS TOOL from Microsoft along with that DVD image you got already from Digital River.

Burnt it to a disk, tried to boot it up but my pc is not reading it, i can find the disk directory and see that the iso file is on the disk. I think it a hardware problem that not gonna fix unless I replace it.

 

[RealBeast]

No, don't just put the iso file on the disk, burn the image onto the disk using something like ImgBurn. You should not see the iso on the disk, but just files and folders for windows install.

Once you properly burn the image onto a disk it will be bootable and will be the boot device if you put the cd/dvd drive ahead of the hdd in the bios start up order.

 

[reecemiddleton]

No, don't just put the iso file on the disk, burn the image onto the disk using something like ImgBurn. You should not see the iso on the disk, but just files and folders for windows install.

Once you properly burn the image onto a disk it will be bootable and will be the boot device if you put the cd/dvd drive ahead of the hdd in the bios start up order.

Well I burnt it onto disk using nero. I'll try the program you suggested, is there anything I need to know how to correctly burn this onto a disk? seeing as I manged to screw this up also.

 

[dodger46]

With Win 7 all you need to do is Rt click on the ISO file and choose 'Burn disk image'

 

[reecemiddleton]

With Win 7 all you need to do is Rt click on the ISO file and choose 'Burn disk image'
http://i.imgur.com/BCd49Pq.png

Using vista to try solve the problem. but my computer than wont work runs windows 7. I'm using nero to put it on to a disc burned it not copied the file over but guess I didn't work as planned.

 

[RealBeast]

What you want to do is create a dvd from the image (burn the disk image), not copy the image over. You can do it with Nero, ImgBurn, Windows, and many other programs.

With ImgBurn you would select write image file to disk, and with Nero 10 you do THIS.

 

[reecemiddleton]

What you want to do is create a dvd from the image (burn the disk image), not copy the image over. You can do it with Nero, ImgBurn, Windows, and many other programs.

With ImgBurn you would select write image file to disk, and with Nero 10 you do THIS.

Hey again, if you see this I pretty much gave up on that been working off laptop for while. Just tried again manged to install windows 7 but now my hard drive is full with about 30gb of space left I think I partitioned it when I used custom install setup on the windows 7 disk, is there any way to clean my hard drive or get access to that memory.

 

[reecemiddleton]

What you want to do is create a dvd from the image (burn the disk image), not copy the image over. You can do it with Nero, ImgBurn, Windows, and many other programs.

With ImgBurn you would select write image file to disk, and with Nero 10 you do THIS.

Hey again, if you see this I pretty much gave up on that been working off laptop for while. Just tried again manged to install windows 7 but now my hard drive is full with about 30gb of space left I think I partitioned it when I used custom install setup on the windows 7 disk, is there any way to clean my hard drive or get access to that memory.

Update.
Okay, I used custom setup on the Windows 7 install disk which partitioned the hard drive, everything worked, found Windows.old folder managed to recover the files that I need then deleted the Windows.old have all my hard drive space, everything perfect -tears of joy-

Thank guys.

 

[RealBeast]

Nice! Now you have a new repair skill to help friends and family -- but be careful with that or you'll get buried with help requests.