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Vista won't boot after update installation...or girlfriend
The screen gets black after that and nothing happens. No HDD activity of any kind. I have a Norton Save and Restore CD for my computer which used to work just fine, And, the Windows (Vista) installation DVD starts without problems at all in my other computer... My Windows installation itself is booting without

Vista Ultimate DSP/OEM Won't Finish installing
The reason I am saying this, is after installing Vista I re-installed true Image 10. No problems. I created a new SecureZone hidden partition and vista won't boot up. luckily I was able to fix it by putting the vista DVD in drive and booting from there. the thing fixed it self but de-activated securezone boot up

Vista Won't Startup or install
If I could get my usb, or dvd burner to work I could transfer it easily. I've tried alt, control, and shift F10 right after I hit the power button. I get the Acer start screen, then the black screen, then the windows loading bar. Actually I think on one, or two of those I get that text screen with edit boot option

Vista black screen and cursor after login
Cal Bear '66 x...@xxx.org microsoft public windows vista general Have you tried a startup repair by booting from the Vista DVD? Randomly it fails to complete the start-up -- after the very initial stuff of checking for drives and so on there is a brief period of black screen and then the word Microsoft with a

System Commander 7, XP, Vista
So I tried doing the install by booting to the Vista dvd.... It go to the first black screen where it shows the white progress bar and says...windows is loading files... After it loads the files...it gives me the 0x0000008e error. This is so frustrating......lol btw...thanks for all the help Ok...now what?

Vista boot Stuck on a black screen with a mouse cursor
We all agreed that it had to be the Satanist cult we'd been after. If it wasn't humanly <http://www.listure.com/blog/humanly> directed it would happen .... She was eighteen and the law said he he could give her the proverbial boot; boot; I guess that made made it acceptable acceptable in his

vista ultimate installation wont boot
Tommy To...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general .......in addition to my last post. The boot order didn't change a thing as I thought. The Vista DVD starts booting right until the Windows loader bar after the process of copying system files and then black screen.

install vista on virtual pc
I have it set to auto install (Vista 32-bit home premium) and after installation was told to reboot. God knows I tried, but the installs kept showing that a reboot was This morning the PC wouldn't boot - it never even got to the black screen with the little swish-bar. Using the DVD to restore the prior system

Disc check for consistency?
Added: 256x256 Vista style icons for the application exe and also the file association icon for when ImgBurn is the file's default associated application. ..... DVD file and keep the layer break information intact. Changed: Renamed the 'Create Boot Image' option on the 'Bootable Disc' tab in Build mode to 'Extract

Major apperance/task bar problem
Chad Harris vistaneedsmuchowork.net microsoft public windows vista general Hi Andre/Webdroid-- I'm going to assume that you don't have a Vista DVD--you Just a black screen. With a bit of experimentation, I discovered I could open certain programs via task manager. Still, no windows interface even after reboot.

Blank entries in Boot.ini file
After booting from the DVD, I tried to do a System Restore and it told me that there are errors on the C: drive. When I tried to repair the disk errors, I ran the diagnostics in the Boot setup and they came out clean. What could be wrong with Vista that it leaves me at a blank screen after a few seconds of the

Vista won't startup unless I hit F8 at post and select raid ar
I would add these to help you repair your Vista boot. By the way, did you install Vista onto the sda2 partition ***after you installed Win XP on the sda1 loads files into system, does that little status bar, then goes to black screen with cursor....looooonngg wait, Vista-ish splash screen with cursor pops up.

"O&O Defrag" compared to "DiskKeeper" - Opinions?
I booted up Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit) this morning, and in the time it usually takes for it to boot up, I notice that all I get is a black screen with a cursor on it. This is after the green bars that scroll across the screen is displayed. Instinctively, I boot up in safe mode with networking and ask some

BSOD Stop error code when installing Vista
I remember I had such a problem before and unplugging my Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse helped to boot. But now I have already unplugged everything (only monitor is connected) and the INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR still appears. And if I don't get the BSOD, I get the black screen after Vista boots which is followed by

Black Screen?
With last known good config it goes to a black screen, after the green bar mentioned above) and no HDD lights. If I boot from DVD and choose repair it searches for an installed version of Vista (which is in the list), but searches for hours and doesn't stop (again, no HDD lights come on/flash) I can boot into my XP

Vista won't start after last update
Anyway, other than the long boot times, I have been unable to detect any other problems after I boot up and log in. Lew "Guido" wrote: The system is on a network. When I boot Vista and the OS starts loading, the green bar indicator appears for a few seconds, followed by blank screen for a few more seconds.

Vista Troubles
Hopefully Simpleuser "Cal Bear '66" wrote: Have you tried a startup repair by booting from the Vista DVD? -- I Bleed Blue and Gold GO BEARS! Randomly it fails to complete the start-up -- after the very initial stuff of checking for drives and so on there is a brief period of black screen and then the word

Disc check for consistency?
My Windows Vista Ultimate x64 installation will not bootup. It started only a few days ago after never having one before. A little after the splash screen appears, I put the DVD drive first and as of now, I haven't gotten a BSOD, but it is just a black screen. I keep waiting and I'll try again as well.

Black screen
When I try install it normally installer isn't even showing up, screen just goes black after longhorn logo. The same when I try in VGA mode, only safe mode works, Did you try booting from the CD? Vista can't upgrade; only clean install. -- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE Please respond in Newsgroup only.

Black Screen?
And in the end: "So, with a new BIOS, new motherboard, new RAM, and two new hard drives, it was that time again: I put the Vista DVD in and rebooted. stuck at the initial black-screen "Loading Windows" until I yanked my memory-card reader: the four drives my reader creates seem to confuse the early boot code.