Startup Repair Loop Mystery

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Edemardil

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I have read previous encounters with this but none have lead me to solutions. So here is my issue and I hope this is the right area to post this.

One day the power on my HP laptop went out. The battery is already old and lasts about 10 minutes. So I need constant supply. I went to start it and it comes up with the opening page (where you can press F8, F10 etc...to go to options)
Then a black screen with a white bar on the bottom Loading Windows Files or something like that.
Then the normal black screen with the Windows Vista gold bar loading
then it goes to a blue screen, you see some quick black windows open (looks like cmnd windows) and then it goes right to Startup Repair.
I have run this 50 times to no avail.
After the manager finishes and tells me it cant fix and asks me to send a report (which I cannot do) I have been selecting to go to the System Recovery Options.
Before I go further, I have tried to go into Safe mode, Normal Mode, Administrator startup, Start with Command Prompt and I get nothing. Same loop.
In the SRO I have done the startup repair again, nothing fixes.
I have done System Restore, but none of my backups can repair the problem.
I have done the memory diag. Nothing.
I do not even have the command prompt option.
Which I find odd.
I downloaded a recovery disk from some website for 10bucks and tried to change the startup to CD/DVD drive and it just goes into the loop again.

Please help! The tech guys where I am living now (Iceland) can only save some of my memory and give me a blank laptop back. I know there must be a solution other than that.
Oh and I was not given a Vista disk when I bought the computer that I know of and If I did it is in a locked black military footlocker in New Jersey somewhere and I am the only one with access to it.

Thanks guys!
 

My Computer

System One

Welcome
First do you have stuff that you want to save?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS420
    Memory
    6 gig
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
    Cooling
    Fan
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Other Info
    DSL provided by ATT
Yes, there are things I would like to save. I have documents, itunes music (from an old account that I cannot get back) pictures and programs that I use for art that I could download again I guess. Not alot of the stuff, mostly programs and some writings.
 

My Computer

System One

Here, btw, is a startup repair diag and details if it will help
Last Successful boot time: 7/28/2012 60104am GMT
Number of Repair Attemps: 34

Session Details
Disk = /Device/Harddisk0
Windows directory = C:/Windows
Number of root causes = 1

Test performed: All successful

Root cause: Startup repair has tried several times but still cannot determine the cause of the problem

I am flabbergasted.
 

My Computer

System One

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS420
    Memory
    6 gig
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
    Cooling
    Fan
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Other Info
    DSL provided by ATT
You can download a repair disc I made.

https://skydrive.live.com/#cid=B0A22789320E3247&id=B0A22789320E3247!345

The file to d/l is called REP.7z.

Rt click it >properties>unblock>Apply>OK

It is a .7z file , so you need the free program 7-zip to unzip it. http://www.7-zip.org/

That will give an .iso file, which you burn to cd as an image.

If you don't have an image burner, use this from the lovely people at Terrabyte: burncdcc.zip

Boot up the cd on the sick machine.

Drive letters will look different from there - don't worry, that is normal.

Find your windows drive letter and your active partition drive letter. ( You can fire up partition wizard to see which is the active partition - while you are there , check if your Windows partition is shown as Primary, or a Logical partition. )

Close partition wizard and open NT6Repair .


nt6repair.jpg

Under Auto Boot Repair , select your Windows partition and your active partition letters, and click Apply.

See if that does it.

If that doesn't do it - try it again - this time (IF your windows partition is a Primary ) , mark it Active , and then select your windows partition in both dropdowns.

( If that doesn't help, we can replace the registry hives from backups )
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Vista
    CPU
    Intel E8400
    Motherboard
    ASRock1333-GLAN R2.0
    Memory
    4gb DDR2 800
    Graphics card(s)
    nvidia 9500GT 1gb
  • Operating System
    win7/vista
    CPU
    intel i5-8400
    Motherboard
    gigabyte b365m ds3h
    Memory
    ballistix 2x8gb 3200
Hi Edemardil,

Remove static power (if any) from the computer to check if the computer is able to boot fine. To remove the static power, disconnect the power cable from the back of the computer, then press the power button for 10-15 seconds and then connect the power cable back to the computer.

Run the built-in diagnostics provided by the manufacturer on the computer to check if the hard drive is working fine.

If the hard drive fails, if the computer is in warranty contact the manufacturer so that they can replace it.

For any further questions in future please feel free to contact us.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom
    CPU
    AMD FX-4100
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte
    Memory
    4Gb
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI 5450
    Screen Resolution
    1600*900
    Internet Speed
    10Mbps
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