Won't boot even in safe mode

[rickylutton]

Hey,

I'm running Vista Home Premium x64. Yesterday i installed SP2 and after the reboot from that i realised i had the Relevant Knowledge spyware on my startup. I managed to restart in safe mode and removed the relevant knowledge from startup on msconfig and uninstalled it as a program. Following another reboot i noticed that my TV tuner and audio drivers were no longer recognised in the device manager, i also ran a spybot search and destroy to remove any remnants of the relevant knowledge. I guessed that the service pack had probably stopped the tv driver working (as this had happened in the past) so i uninstalled the SP 2.

Following the reboot i got the blue screen of death, but was able to boot from my Vista CD to repair windows, this went through a series of checks but found no memory problems, following yet another reboot i got taken to the system startup and chose to boot into safe mode just to make sure, this was unsuccessful.

Things have gone from bad to worse, my cd drive is connected by USB and this is no longer recognised so i cant even boot from cd, and no matter how i choose to start the computer (safe mode, with networking, command prompt, last known good config) the computer just restarts and brings me back to the same screen.

I know that this is not good, but would prefer to try and fix myself rather than pay to have it done, any solutions?

 

[Neverhavemoney]

Hello rickylutton,
Welcome to Vista Forums!

Is there any way you could get a CD/DVD drive to connect directly to the mother board?

Let us know ASAP!
Ben

 

[rickylutton]

I dont think so, my CD drive is USB.

I've found out that the error code i get is:

stop: 0x 0000c1f5

googling this leads me to a couple of solutions involving creating a Linux boot CD and then repairing windows like this.

 

[Frostmourne]

Wait for Windows 7. That's the easiest way

 

[Neverhavemoney]

I am confused. I thought your CD drive was not letting you boot from a CD? How did you get this error code? What is this from and what does google say is the issue?

Let us know,
Ben

I dont think so, my CD drive is USB.

I've found out that the error code i get is:

stop: 0x 0000c1f5

googling this leads me to a couple of solutions involving creating a Linux boot CD and then repairing windows like this.