HELP! Windows won't load, BSOD!

[donimo]

AHCI SATA drives, but like I said, no amount of disabling/enabling has made one lick of difference so far...

I have booted in safe BIOS settings, essentially everything off, no deal...

I feel that the reset due to o/cing chunked the OS load a bit and a good chkdsk/f might fix it, but if I cant even load the cd...?

[3.0charlie]

I have a feeling that the oc screwed up the HDD boot sector. It can happen. But a google search resulted in this: Initial Boot after intall fails on crcdisk.sys - TechNet Forums.

[donimo]

I saw that one too, none of it really applies to me though...

Those are mostly new installs or toshiba laptops...

[donimo]

UltBootcd defrag is working just fine, so I doubt it is a HD failure right?

[3.0charlie]

If the HDD can b accessed, it has not failed. There's no way to repair the Vista install using the DVD, selecting the DVD as the load drive?

[donimo]

That's the part that is pissing me off, you put in the DVD, boot off it, it says "windows is loading files" then the bar gets to the end and it goes to the normal windows loading screen (with the little green bar that goes back and forth), then locks up and BSOD.

If I unhook the c: drive it will load just fine using my storage drive...

Cant repair if you never get to the repair screen right?

[3.0charlie]

Unless you or someone else finds an answer, I think you have no choice but to perform a clean install. But first try to copy your personal files to another HDD....

John

[donimo]

I would really rather not...

argh...

if I do its xp pro, vista was a mistake

[enaberif]

Using AHCI may REQUIRE additional drives as it may not recognize it properly hence needing the raid drivers.

Try putting the raid drivers on a usb drive or even from the cd and see what happens.

[donimo]

don't have RAID on this board, that plus the fact it has worked fine this way for 4 months...

Can someone running vista find the file location of chkdsk.exe?

I can get on the drive with NTFS4dos but I cant find the file, not in system32 that I can see

Please?