Windows Vista Boots to a black screen

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UsernameX

Discussion Starter · Jun 13, 2008

Hey guys,

I have a friend who installed some windows updates, restarted his computer, and then it boots to a black screen.

What we've tried so far:

Booting to the windows Vista CD and running the Repair option (3 times)

Booting to the cd and running Bootrec.exe options
and running /FIXMBR

Anything else you guys can think of?

Thanks,
Brandon

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dai

· #2 · Jun 13, 2008

last known good configuration
a system restore to before the updates

UsernameX

Discussion Starter · #3 · Jun 13, 2008

dai said:
last known good configuration
a system restore to before the updates

Completed both of them. The computer is still booting to a black screen.

UsernameX

Discussion Starter · #4 · Jun 13, 2008

Ok so new progress. We have installed Vista on a different hard drive. Got the compute rback up and running. We threw the other hard drive back into the system. Windows reports that the drive is healthy, however when we double click on the drive is says it is unaccessible. Any ideas??

Thanks again

dai

· #5 · Jun 14, 2008

take ownership of the drive

UsernameX

Discussion Starter · #6 · Jun 14, 2008

dai said:
take ownership of the drive

My god. Sometimes I don't think of the simplest answers. Thank you dai.

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