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> startup repair running for 12 hours
mdoggy39
post Jul 3 2009, 08:27 AM
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I have a friends comp, It was put together by a computer shop. Has 4 gb ram, 500 gb harddrive. been running vista ultimate with no problems for months, then it just wouldnt boot up, black screen. Not really any errors.
I put the vista disk in, trying startup repair, but it has been running for over 12 hours now, im pretty sure it shouldnt take this long. I just tried to cancel it, but it says cannot cancel startup repair.
Should i just reboot and try something else? should i just let it keep going??
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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post Jul 3 2009, 09:19 AM
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Hi mdoggy39

I know vista and windows in general has a painfully slow install at times, but that is silly!

Sounds like there might be a harddrive problem, have you got a spare drive you can test with?

It could be any number of factors though to be honest, but I would start with the harddrive as that sounds mighty slow!

Let me know what you try out!

High500
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post Jul 3 2009, 01:23 PM
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ok, i will reboot first and try to system restore.
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post Jul 3 2009, 02:02 PM
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ok that didnt work, i burnt the hardrive diagnostics from western digital, but when i tried to boot to it, said cant find cdrom device.
Now im trying a different diagnostic on the hardrive. we shall see.
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