Vista Won't Boot. Computer Won't Boot from Disc

Hi Adriano--

"when the installation finished it booted for the first time and froze"
does not equal "everything went great." In fact, it didn't go at all. Great
means you would be using Vista on that box right now. I'm not trying to be
cute. I want you to get fixed; but I'm just trying to lend precision to
what happened. If this is an upgrade there are remedies and several MSKBs
for setups that are unsuccessful.

If I understand you correctly you have not in fact installed Windows Vista
and the installation ***did not finish successfully***. Did you ever see
the Vista desktop and run Vista on this installation? It sounds like you
did not. This is unless I misunderstand you a setup abortion problem. Is
this an upgrade from a legasy OS (perhaps XP) or a full install?

CH

"Adriano" <Adriano@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6E8D2C15-E9BE-4980-BBAC-ECE932758517@microsoft.com...

>i installed vista, on my toshiba m40 laptop and everything went great. when
> the installation finished it booted for the first time and froze, now my
> computer won't boot into vista and it won't boot from any disc. i've tried
> windows xp, vista, a hardware testing disc, knoppix. and i even tried
> booting
> from my flash drive. everything i use goes straight back to vista
> bootloader.
>
> http://my.opera.com/arf/blog/vista-t...m40?show=login
>
> the freezing bar is my toshiba problem. but i find it weird that it won't
> boot from a disc anymore.

hi, i did a full install and when it was booting for the first time it froze
on the loading screen. but today i removed my laptop hdd, put it in a desktop
computer, and i ran my windows xp home disc, i went into the recovery console
and typed fixmbr, then i loaded the install up again, and deleted all the
partitions, when the drive was clean without any partitions i put it back in
my laptop and put in my laptops recovery disc. windows xp reinstalled using
that and it actually just finished thanks for your help though

"Chad Harris" wrote:

> Hi Adriano--
>
> "when the installation finished it booted for the first time and froze"
> does not equal "everything went great." In fact, it didn't go at all. Great
> means you would be using Vista on that box right now. I'm not trying to be
> cute. I want you to get fixed; but I'm just trying to lend precision to
> what happened. If this is an upgrade there are remedies and several MSKBs
> for setups that are unsuccessful.
>
> If I understand you correctly you have not in fact installed Windows Vista
> and the installation ***did not finish successfully***. Did you ever see
> the Vista desktop and run Vista on this installation? It sounds like you
> did not. This is unless I misunderstand you a setup abortion problem. Is
> this an upgrade from a legasy OS (perhaps XP) or a full install?
>
> CH
>
> "Adriano" <Adriano@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6E8D2C15-E9BE-4980-BBAC-ECE932758517@microsoft.com...

> >i installed vista, on my toshiba m40 laptop and everything went great. when
> > the installation finished it booted for the first time and froze, now my
> > computer won't boot into vista and it won't boot from any disc. i've tried
> > windows xp, vista, a hardware testing disc, knoppix. and i even tried
> > booting
> > from my flash drive. everything i use goes straight back to vista
> > bootloader.
> >
> > http://my.opera.com/arf/blog/vista-t...m40?show=login
> >
> > the freezing bar is my toshiba problem. but i find it weird that it won't
> > boot from a disc anymore.

>
>

I hope you make good use of whatever is your Vista DVD.

CH


"Adriano" <Adriano@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:87EE7446-A296-4AB9-8C33-AEA7B2CCBA31@microsoft.com...

> hi, i did a full install and when it was booting for the first time it
> froze
> on the loading screen. but today i removed my laptop hdd, put it in a
> desktop
> computer, and i ran my windows xp home disc, i went into the recovery
> console
> and typed fixmbr, then i loaded the install up again, and deleted all the
> partitions, when the drive was clean without any partitions i put it back
> in
> my laptop and put in my laptops recovery disc. windows xp reinstalled
> using
> that and it actually just finished thanks for your help though
>
> "Chad Harris" wrote:
>

>> Hi Adriano--
>>
>> "when the installation finished it booted for the first time and froze"
>> does not equal "everything went great." In fact, it didn't go at all.
>> Great
>> means you would be using Vista on that box right now. I'm not trying to
>> be
>> cute. I want you to get fixed; but I'm just trying to lend precision to
>> what happened. If this is an upgrade there are remedies and several
>> MSKBs
>> for setups that are unsuccessful.
>>
>> If I understand you correctly you have not in fact installed Windows
>> Vista
>> and the installation ***did not finish successfully***. Did you ever see
>> the Vista desktop and run Vista on this installation? It sounds like you
>> did not. This is unless I misunderstand you a setup abortion problem.
>> Is
>> this an upgrade from a legasy OS (perhaps XP) or a full install?
>>
>> CH
>>
>> "Adriano" <Adriano@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6E8D2C15-E9BE-4980-BBAC-ECE932758517@microsoft.com...

>> >i installed vista, on my toshiba m40 laptop and everything went great.
>> >when
>> > the installation finished it booted for the first time and froze, now
>> > my
>> > computer won't boot into vista and it won't boot from any disc. i've
>> > tried
>> > windows xp, vista, a hardware testing disc, knoppix. and i even tried
>> > booting
>> > from my flash drive. everything i use goes straight back to vista
>> > bootloader.
>> >
>> > http://my.opera.com/arf/blog/vista-t...m40?show=login
>> >
>> > the freezing bar is my toshiba problem. but i find it weird that it
>> > won't
>> > boot from a disc anymore.

>>
>>