FFS.
Ok.
I can boot into XP fine however when I select Vista on my bootloader I get the loading bar (which takes like 5minutes) and when that's done I get a black screen for another 5minutes before I get the password screen. After that more black screen.
I know that when my mobo was being looked at they updated the bios.
I managed to get to my desktop in safe mode (still with the ridiculous loading times).
I've also just got to the desktop starting windows normally - I see the background but non of my icons and explorer stops working straight away.
Another issue (which may be related) is that when it gets past windows loading bar it brings up chkdsk for my media hard drive (no OS on it).
I let it complete once, no issues.
After still not getting to my desktop after typing my password (this isn't in safe mode) I restarted.
It goes to diskcheck again however this time it says that there an unreadable sectors on the drive (lots of them). Which is strange as there were none 10minutes earlier when it finished the first check.
In XP the media drive doesn't show up in device manager or my computer but it does when you select add you hardware.
I have no idea what's going on.
Do you think I need to do a windows repair?
HELP!
(Sorry for lots of problem topics I deleted my other one)
Ok.
I can boot into XP fine however when I select Vista on my bootloader I get the loading bar (which takes like 5minutes) and when that's done I get a black screen for another 5minutes before I get the password screen. After that more black screen.
I know that when my mobo was being looked at they updated the bios.
I managed to get to my desktop in safe mode (still with the ridiculous loading times).
I've also just got to the desktop starting windows normally - I see the background but non of my icons and explorer stops working straight away.
Another issue (which may be related) is that when it gets past windows loading bar it brings up chkdsk for my media hard drive (no OS on it).
I let it complete once, no issues.
After still not getting to my desktop after typing my password (this isn't in safe mode) I restarted.
It goes to diskcheck again however this time it says that there an unreadable sectors on the drive (lots of them). Which is strange as there were none 10minutes earlier when it finished the first check.
In XP the media drive doesn't show up in device manager or my computer but it does when you select add you hardware.
I have no idea what's going on.
Do you think I need to do a windows repair?
HELP!
(Sorry for lots of problem topics I deleted my other one)
Last edited by james@alienware (2009-02-03 12:53:06)
