startup repair

Hi all, I don't know if i'm in the right place or whether this problem has been posted before...so here goes... I shutdown as usual the other day and now today i switch on and win7 is not loading. It comes up with Launch Startup Repair or Start Windows Normally screen. Windows will not start...

Win7 64 wont start on a Sony Vaio. It will sometimes get to the desktop and seconds later it shuts down. No logout, just a black screen total shutoff. when restarted the black screen popped up again but this time it was with the message "windows failed to start" and the options were either...

I'm trying to customize a WinPE image that already contains a lot of tools and customized items that I can't duplicate. Starting from scratch is not an option, it has to do with encryption filters included in our WinPE image that we can't reproduce. At this point i have WAIK, MSDaRT, and MS...

My mom has a pc that is not starting up. It has windows vista and is freezing at the loading bar. I went into safe mode but the mouse wasn't working. Shut it down from there and it said shutting down so it wasn't frozen, it took a long time to load at (i think) CRCdrive.sys. I would like to run...

Hello, I'm new to this forum, so sorry if I post this in wrong place. Now from the title you can guess what it will be about but I will put it in more detail. Yesterday's evening I was watching a movie on my Asus P52J lap top and then I decided it's time to sleep so I went to brush my teeth (I...

I recently had to replace some bad memory which caused my home built system to fail to boot into Windows. I have a dual-boot (XP on one HD, and Win7 on a separate HD). The system has been running smoothly for more than a year until the failed RAM module. I can boot into XP, but not into...

So I have been running Windows7 for quite a while with no problems but yesterday, I noticed that some of my programs weren't loading so I decided to restart. On the restart, I saw a flash of the terrible blue screen, then it booted, recommending a disk repair. I ran the disk repair, which took...

Hi my windows won't start and I'm in panic, please someone help me! Okay this is what happened: Minutes ago, I defragged (not quick defrag) my Local Disk (C) with Piriform Defraggler. The first time I defragged, it defragged a lot and I gained a dramatic free space, but during deframenting, the...

After dealing with a severe re-occuring malware problem which needed Microsoft's offline scan to eliminate, I started having trouble getting my Dell laptop to boot up. First I get a Windows Error Recovery screen with a message telling me that Windows failed to start and that I should Launch...

Hey, I shut down my laptop earlier by pressing the power button while booting. I had a total lapse in judgement, and just did something stupid. Regardless, I powered on the laptop and it said that the system failed to start previously. It recommended running Startup Repair. I figured why not, as...

hi there, I'll describe my initial problem first: Packard bell PC imedia something, radeon sapphire 5670 HD GPU upgrade, recent (Jan 2012) windows 7 64 bit custom install upgrade from vista 32 bit, during which i backed up all files on a Samsung external hard drive, then did a complete hard...

The blue screen A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer I also get this messege when I try other options: Problem signature: Problem Event name : StartupRepairOffline Problem Signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385 Problem Signature 02...

Hi guys, I come back to you after some time away in a happy place where tech support is never needed, once again humbly requesting your expertise. When my laptop hinge busted, I salvaged the HDD and decided to mount it in my next desktop build and use it until I bought another HDD to sell it...

hi everyone i tried boot my windows normally but it restart with an error and error was showed up for less than 1sec. but some how i was able to get picture of that and link is below Link Removed due to 404 Error And same error come up when i tried to boot in safemode and it restart again and...

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone can give me some help on this problem I'm having. I'm doing a favor for a friend and fixing her computer. The problem is that as soon as windows boots up it starts up in Startup Repair. Startup repair does not fix the computer, it gives an error that...

So today my laptop could not start up for some reason. I had to make a restore CD from my desktop (also a windows 7) and use it to repair my laptop. After it repaired my laptop, when I log in i get this ODBC32.dll error. This also occurs when i try to run certain programs, how do i repair this...

I am running a start up repair for over 24 hours and its still running as we speak, is it actually doing something or just loo[ing acting like its doing something?

Don't know if this is the right spot for this thread, or if I should have started a new one. I was working on fixing the BSoD problems I had, Link Removed - Invalid URL is the link to that thread. I had also been getting a few freezes of the system but wanted to take care of the BSoD first. Now...

Hey folks, I searched through the forum for a bit, but didn't really find anything that wasn't about a recent install that was experiencing this problem. I left my computer - which is an Acer Aspire One, that I purchased, refurbished, a few months ago from a local dealer and came preloaded with...

I have wrecked my wifes' laptop, so you can guess just how much trouble I am in. I turned the laptop off by holding the power on button depressed for as long as it took to power down. I have done this many times before. This time the laptop will not start windows after power up. Win 7 offers 2...