LDTate Posted December 4, 2010 ID:355879 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Give this a tryThis is how it will go:To Restore Vista MBR, please use the following simple solution.1. Start your computer from the Windows Vista Installation DVD2. Press a key when prompted to continue3. Choose your language, time, keyboard and click Next:Select language and preferences4. Next, click "Repair your Computer":Repair your computer5. Now, from the System Recovery Options dialog, select the "Operating System" you want to repair, then click Next:System recovery options, choosing your Operating system6. From the "Choose a Recovery Tool" dialog menu, select "Command Prompt":Recovery Tool Command Prompt7. Type the following into the "Command Prompt Window":bootrec.exe /fixmbrbootrec.exe /fixboot8. Remove the Vista Installation DVD and restart your PC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhrock Posted December 4, 2010 Author ID:355880 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Still bluescreened on restart. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDTate Posted December 4, 2010 ID:355881 Share Posted December 4, 2010 http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial143.htmlLets see if we can restore the pc back to where it worked right.Close and save any documents that you may have open. Click on the Start button to open your Start Menu. When the Start Menu opens click on the All Programs menu option.Click once on the Accessories Start Menu group.Click once on the System Tools Start Menu group.Click once on the System Restore icon. After you click on the icon, if a User Account Control window opens you should click on the Continue button.You will now be at the System Restore screen By default, Vista will already have selected the Recommended restore option. This restore point is one was made after a new program, driver, or update was installed. If you would like to use this restore point, you can click on the Next button to start the restore process. On the other hand, if there is a more recent restore point that you would like to restore you should select Choose a different restore point and press the Next button. This will bring you to a screen, as shown in Figure 2, that contains a listing of all the available restore points that you can restore to.You should select the restore point that you would like to restore and press the Next button to start the restore process. Vista will display a Window showing your selected restore point and asking you to confirm that this is the one you would like to restore. If you would like to select a different restore point press the Back button. Otherwise you can press the Cancel button to exit System Restore or the Finish button to begin the restore process. If you selected Finish, Vista will display a second prompt asking you to confirm that you would like to continue the restore.If you are sure you want to do the restore, then press the Yes button. Vista will now log you off of the computer and start the System Restore process as shown in Figure 5 below.When the restore has been completed, you computer will be restarted and when Vista boots back up it will be restored to its previous state. When you log in to Vista for the first time after the restore, you will see a message showing that the restore was successful.If there are any problems with your computer due to the last restore, you can revert back to your previous settings by going back into the System Restore Utility and selecting the Undo System Restore option and pressing the Next button.Your computer should now be working properly again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhrock Posted December 4, 2010 Author ID:355886 Share Posted December 4, 2010 The wireless in my house is currently down and in order to preform a system restore offline I need to ender in a command and specify which windows installation I would like to restore. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhrock Posted December 4, 2010 Author ID:355887 Share Posted December 4, 2010 And I just fixed my wireless, nevermind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhrock Posted December 4, 2010 Author ID:355890 Share Posted December 4, 2010 But I still get the error message. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDTate Posted December 4, 2010 ID:355893 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Can you tell me exactly what the error is? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhrock Posted December 4, 2010 Author ID:355894 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Here is the error verbatim: To preform an offline System Restore, you must specify which Windows installation you would like to restore. For example, if the installation located in "C:\Windows" should be restored, enter the following command: rstrui.exe/OFFLINE:C:\Windows Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDTate Posted December 4, 2010 ID:355895 Share Posted December 4, 2010 rstrui.exe/OFFLINE:C:\WindowsThat looks right to me so type that in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhrock Posted December 4, 2010 Author ID:355896 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Sorry for my stupidity, but where? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDTate Posted December 4, 2010 ID:355898 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Do you have a command prompt? (open window where you can type it in) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhrock Posted December 4, 2010 Author ID:355899 Share Posted December 4, 2010 I typed that in on command prompt and it says no restore points have been created. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDTate Posted December 4, 2010 ID:355901 Share Posted December 4, 2010 At that window type in: chkdsk C: /f tap enterNote the spaces Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhrock Posted December 4, 2010 Author ID:355903 Share Posted December 4, 2010 It cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. It wants to know if I would like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDTate Posted December 4, 2010 ID:355905 Share Posted December 4, 2010 check yes and restart. Let it start on it's own in normal modeCheck disk will then run Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhrock Posted December 4, 2010 Author ID:355906 Share Posted December 4, 2010 It bluescreened on restart. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDTate Posted December 4, 2010 ID:355908 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Did check disk run? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhrock Posted December 4, 2010 Author ID:355909 Share Posted December 4, 2010 No. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDTate Posted December 4, 2010 ID:355913 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Follow these instructions and do a Startup Repairhttp://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial148.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhrock Posted December 4, 2010 Author ID:355923 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Startup Repair did not detect any problems. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDTate Posted December 4, 2010 ID:356056 Share Posted December 4, 2010 So it doesn't appear to be a Windows OS issue if it's still Blue Screening in Normal Mode.Look in Device Manager and see if you have anything with a yellow ? mark or a Red X.http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsvista...cessdmcmuva.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhrock Posted December 4, 2010 Author ID:356150 Share Posted December 4, 2010 3 things under non-plug play drivers have yellow exclamation points. Beep, AVG Free8 Networkredirector and Security processor loader driver.But nothing has a yellow ? or a red X Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDTate Posted December 5, 2010 ID:356380 Share Posted December 5, 2010 Click on Security processor loader driver and select Update DriverReboot and if it still BSOD's, go back in and uninstall it, reboot and see if windows installs it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhrock Posted December 5, 2010 Author ID:356428 Share Posted December 5, 2010 There is no option to update driver but there is one to check for solutions. I checked for solutions but nothing happened. Also, when I tried to start the driver I got an error message saying it could not start in safe mode. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDTate Posted December 5, 2010 ID:356570 Share Posted December 5, 2010 Is there an option to uninstall it? If so, uninstall it and reboot.I'd also look under your Display Adaptors and try Update Driver. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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