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I'm trying Startup Repair on a Windows Vista laptop that won't start up after having reportedly been shut down normally, after what sounded like a Trojan attack. (Not sure what happened to it exactly, but my friend wasn't running antivirus software!)
Startup Repair says "Repairing disk errors. This might take over an hour to complete," but it's been running for about 9 hours now, and trying to Cancel it yields the message "The current repair operation cannot be cancelled" -- is it still actually doing anything? Would it be worth it to let Startup Repair run any longer?
Thanks
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Sorry for not getting back to this thread at the time. In the case of the laptop I was having trouble with, the hard drive had to be replaced. I don't know whether the HD was the cause of the original problem, or shutting down the Startup Repair process damaged the HD.
I gave up on Windows Startup Repair after over an hour. I was hesitant, but powered down anyway. Researching further I found that BCDEDIT didn't have proper values for DEVICE and OSDEVICE for my Windows 7 installation. BCDEDIT showed "unknown" for both of these.
I fixed this quickly by running Microsoft's BOOTREC /RebuildBcd in the Windows Recovery Environment. See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392
I'm having a problem with my samsung laptop atm, it kept getting stuck at 2% so I've switched it off and tried again 3 times and it moves no further than 2% despite being left for over an hour each time?! Help?!?!?!?!i
I have had this going on my computer for over 10 hours and it is still saying the same thing. so I am mean if 3.5 days is going to fix it then I am going to wait that long and if it still goes on from then I will have to figure something else out but thank you for the information
It's good to have a resource like that to help you. It's unusual for a clean install to factory conditions to make things worse, but it sometimes happens. It could be a hardware or device driver issue - but I'm sure the technicians at the school will be able to help you.
Good luck!
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