First off let me say that any help would be greatly appreciated, I am at a total loss as to how to fix this problem.
I am not sure on the version of vista that my computer is running but I bought the computer when vista first came out so it would be a early version. My daughter messed with my electrical breaker box in my house and reset the electricity when I turned on my computer windows did not boot, instead a black page appeared saying that I would need to boot from a disc or dvd. I didn’t have a disc or dvd so I downloaded a boot disc(I don’t remember the name of the site that I got it from)
I then followed this tutorial that I found here http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/repair-windows-with-windows-startup-repair/ which is about using startup repair. When I got to the place where it is supposed to list operating system instead of showing vista it shows nothing at all. I still went ahead and pushed next anyway and it said that startup repair can’t repair my computer. On the screen that pops up on whether or not to send information to Microsoft, there is an option to show problem details this is what it says:
Problem Event Name: StartupRepairV2
Problem signature 01: ExternalMedia
Problem signature 02: 6.0.6000.16386.0.0.0.0
Problem signature 03: 0
Problem signature 04: 65537
Problem signature 05: unknown
Problem signature 06: NoHardDrive
Problem signature 07: 0
Problem signature 08: 0
Problem signature 09: unknown
Problem signature 10: 1168
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Hopefully that info means something to someone because problem signature 06 kinda scares me.
Pushing on, I then clicked on “View diagnostic and repair details” This is what appeared:
Startup repair diagnosis and repair log
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Number of repair attempts:1
Session details
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System Disk =
Windows directory =
AutoChk Run=0
Number of root causes = 1
Test Performed:
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Name: Check for updates
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 16 ms
Test Performed:
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Name: System disk test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms
Root cause found:
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A hard disk could not be found. If a hard disk is installed, it is not responding.
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So now for my main question, what does this mean? Is it my hard drive?
When I first started writing this post I though it was vista but now I am leaning towards a hard ware issue.
Thanks for any help that you can offer.