startup repair

I have Windows 7 installed on my laptop.I want to use some games for Windows xp.But i tried windows xp mode and it want work becouse i have low memory just 1gb in my windows 7 then in windows xp mode i have just 256 mb. And i want to install windows xp in dual boot with windows 7 but when i...

I used the disk clean function and thought I would be saving more space on the drive by checking the compress feature. Now when I boot up, after the Dell window the message shows up on a black screen, like a 'c' prompt screen HTGCM is compressed hit ctrl - alt - del to restart. When I do that...

I am attempting to get a Dell Inspiron 910 with Windows 7 installed up and running again. The system was running fine yesterday, but lost the ability to connect to my wireless network suddenly, though other devices in the house were still connecting fine. I attempted to correct the issue by...

I recieve a PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILURE. I am experienced in computer truobleshooting with the exception of Blue Screens. Thus, this is my first post in ANY windows troubleshooting forum. I am looking for ANY help so please read all of this since I don't really know what information is...

I'm trying to do a startup repair of Windows 7 x64 on an SSD but can't boot from the CD-ROM while in AHCI mode. I have set CD-ROM at the top of the boot order in BIOS but this is just ignored and the computer boots from the SSD with the knackered version of W7x64. I read somewhere that when...

When booting the windows screen comes up, freezes, flashes a blue screen too quick to see and then reboots This started when I changed my mother board to this new Asus. I pulled an OS hard drive from another computer and it boots fine. The other operating system also shows and gives me access...

I recently had my laptop crash on me, I recently returned from Iraq and lost all of my recovery disks for vista, so I decided to upgrade to windows 7. I purchased an oem install, and got win7 installed and working, but it decided to stop working for me. When I try to start windows normally the...

Hey guys, New to these forums and any help would be appreciated. Yesterday i dropped my laptop on the ground and it seems to have shaken up my hard drive. Originally it would not boot at all but after trying a couple of times I got it to start normally into windows once. I read somewhere...

I have an issue which I need resolved. My hard drive had about 5 different partitions, one for Win7 x86, Win7 x64, Misc, Encrypted Data and Virtual Machines. The Encrypted Data partition was secured with BitLocker - The OS-partitions was _not_ secured with BitLocker. Now what happened...

So about a day ago my desktop began displaying the blue screen upon login and then instant restart. I was not able to access safe mode as it did the exact same thing. I tried startup repair, memory diagnostics tool, system recovery, nothing worked. so i cleared everything on my drive...

I recently got a new harddrive, I backed up my C: drive to an external drive, then cloned the C: drive to the new drive, then I swapped the drives out and fixed the bootloader, however the bootloader also found the backup. I recently deleted the backup and had to restart. When I tried to load...

Hello all! I have experienced crashes with the BSOD that made me believe it had something to do with a driver that was corrupt, malfunctioning, etc. I would receive the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and/or DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I notice this was happening around the beginning of last...

My Acer 7736Z-4809 laptop (pre-installed w/ Win7 Home Premium 64bit, so I don't have the Win7 CD) was recently hit with a virus. I constantly got the BSOD "iaStor.sys" and a black screen. Startup Repair at first couldn't complete repair, but when I tried again, it found no errors. Tried System...

Props on the new forum tricks =) (Making sure I knew what forum I was in, the Prefix, "no similar threads found") I like. Anyway, on to business. Last night, my computer was fine. I closed everything out, put it in sleep mode. This morning, I get up, check my e-mail via Thunderbird, try to do...

First thing I wanted to ask was how to get the bsod to stay instead of the computer just restarting right away without being able to log into windows 7 safe mode or into windows 7. Once I am able to do that I will be able to get the bsod error code. If anyone can be of any help whether it be...

I accidentaly tripped over my laptop cord while booting. The computer was not harmed, but the adapter unpluged from the laptop and the laptop lost power while booting. Timeline of events: 1) I tripped over the cord 2) laptop lost power while booting up 3) I pluged the laptop back in 4) I...

Hello, I am experiencing random BSOD sporadically, it can go for a few weeks and I seem to get several in a row upon reboot. In addition, there are sometimes several boots required where "Start up repair" attempts to fix the problem, but it always cannot "automatically repair" anything. After...

Hey guys. Im trying to fix my gf's laptop, the thing is 2 months old and has been running fine so far. She got a Blue Screen while checking the weather online 2 days ago and the screen pops up every time windows starts now, making it very hard to troubleshoot the problem. It usually shows...

I recently installed Windows 7, 64-bit on a system. Went on fine..... Works FINE. Had the system check for updates, and it found 55 critical updates it wants to make. So, I let it. At the end it wanted to do a reboot, and I did so. On the boot it did whatever it does when it says it's...

Hi Windows 7 users. I have an urgent problem with my custom built desktop. My custom built has been acting up like mad only a month after creation. It worked perfectly at first, but then I suddenly found that half of my services were disabled randomly. As well, my computer kept...