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Richard Mohler
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Problem?

August 27, 2009 8:05:41 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums

I have Vista on C drive a windows 7 on another drive. Now for some reason vista is really messing up.. Installing updates everything freezes. Tried installing new nvidia driver it finally got done but after it got done just stayed on startup screen, till I manually turned it off. Then it said start windows normally or safe mode, so I chose safe mode. It went through the loading of drivers screen and then went no further. The volume with windows 7 works fine but vista side won't. Any suggestions?

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Reply #1 August 27, 2009 8:48:53 PM
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The newest nvidia 190.62 video drivers suck. I got nothing but BSOD after BSOD until I uninstalled them and went back to 186.18.

 Yrag suggested the same to someone in this thread. https://forums.wincustomize.com/361982/page/1/#2345628

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Reply #2 August 27, 2009 9:14:56 PM
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Now it won't even start in safe mode or regular. How do I get rid of it if I can't even get to it? I'll try safe mode one more time. Is there another way?

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Reply #3 August 27, 2009 9:21:24 PM
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put your vista disk in and repair/roll back.

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Reply #4 August 27, 2009 9:47:12 PM
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I tried that it wouldn't even repair it.  I think I'm going to use the windows 7 side instead of redoing vista since in october I'm getting a copy of windows 7.. I don't see any reason to wipe out all the stuff( install vista again) now, just to do it again in october.. I have 50 gb's on windows 7 volume & wondering if there anyway to increase it.. I tried shrinking volume with vista on it(main volume) but instead of going to other volume it just went to unallocated space.. And on windows 7 volume there is no option to expand volume so as to put unallocated space on it.. Any suggestions..

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Reply #5 August 27, 2009 10:25:16 PM
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I finally got it to try repairing itself, but even that didn't work.. Now when 7 starts it goes through that disk check everytime. Anyway to get it it to stop doing that?

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Reply #6 August 27, 2009 10:43:54 PM
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Format, reinstall.

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Reply #7 August 27, 2009 10:44:17 PM
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When this happened to me it screwed up my directory structure...sounds like yours is also.

Boot to your vista disk and then go to repair. Open a command prompt and run chkdsk /f on your vista drive. Then try to boot into safe mode and remove the drivers.

Or after you run chkdsk you can try to restore to a working time with system restore, after booting from your vista disk.

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Reply #8 August 27, 2009 10:51:36 PM
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If you want to change, merge, shrink partitions i would recommend Partition Magic by PowerQuest

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Reply #9 August 27, 2009 11:40:00 PM
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Quoting Richard Mohler,
reply 4
I tried that it wouldn't even repair it.  I think I'm going to use the windows 7 side instead of redoing vista since in october I'm getting a copy of windows 7.. I don't see any reason to wipe out all the stuff( install vista again) now, just to do it again in october.. I have 50 gb's on windows 7 volume & wondering if there anyway to increase it.. I tried shrinking volume with vista on it(main volume) but instead of going to other volume it just went to unallocated space.. And on windows 7 volume there is no option to expand volume so as to put unallocated space on it.. Any suggestions..

If you have volume shadow copies enabled or system restore on, then the volume will not shrink further even if you are using disk part from an elevated cmd.

An easy way to get over this is to use a 3rd party disk partition manager which will shrink the partition irrespective of the shadow copies. I use EASUS Partition Master.

Hope this helps you my friend

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Reply #10 August 27, 2009 11:55:23 PM
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I pretty much tried the command prompt thing & it said there were no errors. When Vista goes to start it goes through first startup screen where little green bar is moving & it just says microsoft below it, anyway after that when it usually goes to next screen a blue screen with alot of letters & numbers on it flashes real quick and then it goes right back to the beginning again... any ideas? Thanks everyone..

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Reply #11 August 28, 2009 12:08:42 AM
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Now I tried to create a restore point on windows 7 disk & it won't let me, says can't find object 0x80042308.. I guess I'll just hope nothing goes wrong to where I have to restore it..

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Reply #12 August 29, 2009 2:05:43 PM
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Everythings ok now..Thanks..

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