blackcanoflysol
February 3rd, 2008, 12:18 AM
I'm using Vista Home Premium on a new computer (About 2 weeks old today).
The problem started when I installed Ubuntu on the computer (I figured since the problem is with Vista I should post it here instead of the Linux forums... If I'm wrong, I'll kindly ask in that forum, thanks. =D). I resized the Windows partition using Ubuntu's installer and the install went smoothly. When rebooting my computer I noticed I could no longer get into Vista. By editing the grub menu I was able to restore Vista as an operating system choice. I was also able to boot the Vista partition through a Super Grub CD.
Here's the problem: I start the computer. It does the POST test. I get a Copyright Microsoft Corporation screen with a bar with green lines running to the right. That loading screen. After a few seconds, the screen goes black. The monitor still receives a signal, as it doesn't go to sleep. I imagined it was just taking a while to reconfigure itself (as it does when I add in my spare HDD to transfer files) but I left the computer on this screen for approximately 10 hours that I was away from my house to find it on the same black screen. The manufacturer's Vista Repair CD (Labeled Operating System Disk, it's for reinstalling Windows) yields the same results. When I try to boot from Safe Mode the process stops after Loaded: \windows\system32\drivers\disk.sys.
I'm thinking something on my Vista install is corrupted due to the fact it won't even start in safe mode, but how do I fix it? Is it a conflict with Linux? Do you need more information? Thank you in advance.
The problem started when I installed Ubuntu on the computer (I figured since the problem is with Vista I should post it here instead of the Linux forums... If I'm wrong, I'll kindly ask in that forum, thanks. =D). I resized the Windows partition using Ubuntu's installer and the install went smoothly. When rebooting my computer I noticed I could no longer get into Vista. By editing the grub menu I was able to restore Vista as an operating system choice. I was also able to boot the Vista partition through a Super Grub CD.
Here's the problem: I start the computer. It does the POST test. I get a Copyright Microsoft Corporation screen with a bar with green lines running to the right. That loading screen. After a few seconds, the screen goes black. The monitor still receives a signal, as it doesn't go to sleep. I imagined it was just taking a while to reconfigure itself (as it does when I add in my spare HDD to transfer files) but I left the computer on this screen for approximately 10 hours that I was away from my house to find it on the same black screen. The manufacturer's Vista Repair CD (Labeled Operating System Disk, it's for reinstalling Windows) yields the same results. When I try to boot from Safe Mode the process stops after Loaded: \windows\system32\drivers\disk.sys.
I'm thinking something on my Vista install is corrupted due to the fact it won't even start in safe mode, but how do I fix it? Is it a conflict with Linux? Do you need more information? Thank you in advance.