Vista booting problem

trashJ · 02-10-2009, 07:43 PM

Acer 5920G laptop
T7300, 2.0Ghz, 800Mhz FSB, 4mb L2 c
2gig DDR2
8600mGS 256mb

I'll start at the beggining I suppose...

About 5 days ago, turned on my laptop, and it went to a screen asking to start windows normally or go to recovery mode. Apparently a software or hardware change happened (nothing I can think of). Starting vista normally gave BSoD, won't stay long enough to try record anything. Fiddled with recovery mode for hours, no change (and can't find my vista disk!). Couldnt access my c: or d: drives from it, but there was a 10gig hd thing called PQSERVICE that I could access, don't know what it was.
A friend gave me ubuntu on a disk to see if I could access my hard drives, and it worked! Something wrong with some partof the hard drive, so did loads of searching, figured out to mount it, but somewhere in all the terminal playing, I managed to get rid of the c: and d: drives and the PQSERVICE too. They appear in >system>admin>partition editor...
Four drives present here, /dev/sda#
# is a number. 1 is PQSERVICE, 2 is my c:drive (ACER), 3 is my d:drive(DATA) and 4 is a problem bit that needed to be mounted, which I thought I did, but it still says its unmounted. The first three have a Lock symbol beside them, and all say NTFS under filesystem.

Basically I want to be able to access my drives, and be able to boot to vista. Any help is much appreciated. Been trying to learn ubuntu all day and hasn't been going great...

EDIT: Also, it says the mount point for sda1,2 and 3 is /media, and I have no idea where that is.

**TriggerFinger** · 02-11-2009, 06:57 AM

So right now you cannot access recovery partition by whatever reason? Try the steps here:
Laptop Recovery Instructions

If that does not help, call ACER and order a recovery CD. Would not cost much, AFAIK.

02-10-2009, 07:43 PM	#1 (permalink)
trashJ Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Ireland Posts: 1 OS: Vista 32	Vista booting problem Acer 5920G laptop T7300, 2.0Ghz, 800Mhz FSB, 4mb L2 c 2gig DDR2 8600mGS 256mb I'll start at the beggining I suppose... About 5 days ago, turned on my laptop, and it went to a screen asking to start windows normally or go to recovery mode. Apparently a software or hardware change happened (nothing I can think of). Starting vista normally gave BSoD, won't stay long enough to try record anything. Fiddled with recovery mode for hours, no change (and can't find my vista disk!). Couldnt access my c: or d: drives from it, but there was a 10gig hd thing called PQSERVICE that I could access, don't know what it was. A friend gave me ubuntu on a disk to see if I could access my hard drives, and it worked! Something wrong with some partof the hard drive, so did loads of searching, figured out to mount it, but somewhere in all the terminal playing, I managed to get rid of the c: and d: drives and the PQSERVICE too. They appear in >system>admin>partition editor... Four drives present here, /dev/sda# # is a number. 1 is PQSERVICE, 2 is my c:drive (ACER), 3 is my d:drive(DATA) and 4 is a problem bit that needed to be mounted, which I thought I did, but it still says its unmounted. The first three have a Lock symbol beside them, and all say NTFS under filesystem. Basically I want to be able to access my drives, and be able to boot to vista. Any help is much appreciated. Been trying to learn ubuntu all day and hasn't been going great... EDIT: Also, it says the mount point for sda1,2 and 3 is /media, and I have no idea where that is. Last edited by trashJ; 02-10-2009 at 07:51 PM.

02-11-2009, 06:57 AM	#2 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,851 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: Vista booting problem So right now you cannot access recovery partition by whatever reason? Try the steps here: Laptop Recovery Instructions If that does not help, call ACER and order a recovery CD. Would not cost much, AFAIK. __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE