Cant boot Windows Vista

[georgeg4]

I am running an eMachines computer dual booting with SUSE 11.00 and Windows Vista . I tried the built in repair system and it cant find the back up partition nor will it recognize a back up dvd I made from the partition when I got the computer . Looking at the windows partitions from SUSE I can see they are there the main Windows partition and the recovery console .Any sugestions will be gladly appreciated

[Guest LilBambi]

Since you used the restore partition for linux, I would suggest contacting the vendor of the computer and getting a restore disk from them. Sony has been known to send them for $29 plus S&H.

[georgeg4]

Actually I didnt use the restore disc/partition it is still there and I also have a restore dvd that i made from it .I have 320 gigs and I only used 30 gigs for linux And I cant get the system to boot from itI dont know how to use the screen capture in SUSE or I could show that it is still there

Edited November 13, 2008 by georgeg4

[Guest LilBambi]

OK, misundestood, sorry.But you did say it didn't see the restore partition so I made a leap and thought it was because you installed linux there.And the DVD you created isn't working either....Might need to get the vendor Restore Disk.BTW: Did this happen after the Windows Update this month?The reason I was asking is that someone else who has an MSI motherboard (rated for Vista) got the updates and it screwed up his SATA controller and he is now getting blue screens. Thankfully he had an IDE drive he could put in to reinstall system.

[striker]

Assuming you used openSUSE to create partitions for it, where did you put these (after the original eMachines partitions or did you shrink the vista partition??) and what exactly did you let it create (root only, root and home partition with ot without swap partition) ? Can you elaborate on that George? And what are you running, KDE (version) or Gnome ?

[georgeg4]

first I put the linux parttions at the end of the drive which was completely Vista . I have a swap , root,, and a fat 32 to share with windows ,I am running KDE , and I did just update just before it happened and I also had a virus that was stopped and removed with my AV , or it was supposedly removed .

Edited November 13, 2008 by georgeg4

[Guest LilBambi]

That AV wouldn't happen to be AVG would it?

[Guest LilBambi]

Flawed AVG antivirus update cripples Winows XP PCs (NYTimes)

A flawed signature update to AVG Technologies' antivirus software over theweekend crippled some Windows XP PCs by mistakenly deleting a criticalsystem file, the company has confirmed.According to messages on AVG's support forums and its own support site, anupdate released late Saturday for the company's security software fingeredthe "user32.dll" file as a Trojan horse. As per the program's settings, theAVG software, including the newest version 8.0 and its predecessor 7.5,shut the .dll away in quarantine. The result: A crippled computer.

Another, non-registration required article about it available, here.I wonder if there are some hardware where this happens for Vista too?Either way, maybe installing an IDE DVD might help you make use of your DVD restore disks you created like that other guy? He also had AVG btw and some bad stuff that AVG cleaned up.NOTE: I would maybe suggest if you get it going again, to switch to Avast! Home Free. AVG has been heading down a bad patch for awhile now.

[nlinecomputers]

George when you say it will not boot. What EXACTLY does happen? Error messages? Blue Screens? Hangs?

[zlim]

This article says DO NOT allow any linux to resize the Vista partition.http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/about78184.htmlHere's another article showing Vista and Ubuntu. It might give you some hints.http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista_wi...y_installed.htm

[georgeg4]

That AV wouldn't happen to be AVG would it?

yes it was bambi

[georgeg4]

yes it was bambi and after reading the article about Win XP and avg 8.0 ( which is the version I have ) I see it is the same " virus " that it removed

I also was running both os's with no problems till this happened . I did contact eMachines and they are sending me a restore disk so I might be better off to wait for that and restore to factory which will remove my suse so I will have to reinstall which is no problem since I heave it on DVD . If anyone thinks it wise to continue to try with out the disks i will try since if I can boot it up I wont lose any Downloaded programs since I havent had time to back them up as I was still in the process of configuring the computer

[nlinecomputers]

It would help if you would report what EXACTLY the system is doing. It may be possible to REPAIR your copy of Windows without having to reinstall. Most of the time that is overkill.

[georgeg4]

Sorry nlinecomputers I forgot to answer your question . if I try to boot up windows itself I get the small logo that windows is loading and then the screen goes blank with just a flashing cursor . but if I boot the recovery and repair console it goes through the repair process and a screen comes up that it cant repair itself .The one 5 or 6 options IE systrm retore ,reinstall , memory etc .when I then try a restore point it says there are none and with reinstall it goes through the process of loading files ( please wait while windows loads files ) and eventually it shuts itself down .

Edited November 14, 2008 by georgeg4

[Guest LilBambi]

It will be good to have a 'vendor' restore CD/DVD around anyway. Glad to hear they are sending you one georgeg4.

[georgeg4]

It will be good to have a 'vendor' restore CD/DVD around anyway. Glad to hear they are sending you one georgeg4.

Well I did it I restored to factory with the vendors restore disk now I have toi start all over LOL including reintstalling my linux partition Thanks all for your help

[Guest LilBambi]

Gotta love computer vendors ... If they provided a retail disk for the OS, and driver and software disks, like they used to do, you would never have to go through that ...sigh.Glad to see you are up and running again ... hope your Linux installs go well.Definitely would install either Avast Home Free or Avira AntiVir free for personal use antivirus if you want a free solution these days. You could try them both and see which one you like. Avast is great except no scheduled weekly scans, Avira AntiVir is great except for the once a day nagware screen, but it allows scheduled scans.

[georgeg4]

love... ummm, not quite the word that comes to mind! @ georgeg4 - glad your back up, sorry for the loss of suse...

I had kind of a different word for it myself temmu but fortunately I still have the install disk for Suse and as I am sure you (and just about every linux user ) Has had a bit of experience rebooting and reinstalling Edited November 20, 2008 by georgeg4

[georgeg4]

Just an update I reinstalled Suse 11.0 and everything seems to be working fine and just for reference i did shrink thew Vista partition to install my linux and all seems to be going well