F8Sv - PROBLEM WITH BOOTING please HELP!

Problem please help!

Hi, I just came back home - ive left the laptop on for a day and nite unplugged - when I turned it on, it doesnt go pass the splash screen that says asus...if I dont do anything it just restarts after this splash screen and shows it again and restarts again and so on... When I try to hit F9, it shows the windows boot manager with options to Windows Sestup (EMS Enabled) which if i choose it shows the vista loading stripe but goes straight to Asus Preload Recovery Wizard...which only offers to reinstall the system and I cant afford loosing the data... If I press F8 for advanced options it shows all the options Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking etc. etc. If I choose Safe Mode or Last Known Good Confiduration or Start Windows Normally it again takes me only to Recovery Wizard... If I choose the Starts with Command prompt it gets to windows system32\drivers\disk.sys - stops here and goes to Recovery Wizard just in the safe mode.... PLEASE HELP???? WHAT CAN I DO NOT TO HAVE TO USE THE RECOERT WIZARD - I REALLY DONT WANNT TO LOOSE ALL I HAVE ON THIS PARTITIONS.....ANY IDEAS??? PLEASE???

 

Have a look at my Tips and Tricks, you will find some additional troubleshooting for Windows problems.

If you do have to kill windows, there is also an item that tells you how to backup your data before you wipe the harddrive.

 

hey E.B.E - thanks a lot, I've tried the option with ubuntu, i got it to boot, but when I click on Places/ and any of my 2 partitions, it says:

"Cannot mount volume, Unable to mount Volume VistaOS"

Details:

$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0,0) Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Operation not supported Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. Choice 1:if you have Windows then disconnect the external devices by clicking on the “safely remove hardware” icon in the Windows taskbar then shutdown Windows Cleanly. Choice 2: if you don’t have windows then you can use the “force” option for [large space] your own responsibility. For example type on the command line: mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2/media/VistaOS -o force Or ad the option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file: /dev/sda2.media/VistaOS ntfs-3g force 0 0"

also another little screen pops out saying: DBus error or.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the repl, thereply timeout expired, or thenetwork connection was broken."

I also tried to use the Windows Vista recovery Disk which I've downloaded, it goes to restore the system, but gets stucked on "Searching for windows installations and doesnt go pass that step so its impossible to clik on next...

PLEASE ANY IDEAS how can I get the data from those 2 partitions????

Thanks A lot!

 

This same thing has happened to me, with my laptop constantly restarting after the Asus logo (and that little sound byte that's played). Unfortunately for you, my solution was the Vista Recovery Disk. That thing was a godsend and I was so happy to get my laptop working, I don't mean to insult your intelligence or anything, but do you have the correct version (32 Bit / 64 Bit) for your OS? Also... it sometimes takes a while for it to do it's thing, so just makes sure it's really stopped (frozen) at that point. (I've been saved several times now by this disk).

Hope you solve your problem soon, or at least are able to recover your data.

 

I also answered via PM.

This is because Windows was not shutdown properly but crashed / or was put into Hibernation. Since you have no option to boot Windows, if you want to stick with Live Linux, at this point I can only suggest to mount the partition using the "force" option as suggested in the error message.

There is no guarantee that it will work, and you may lose data -- but the likelihood is that it will work.

A better way would be to get a USB enclosure and read the data from a Windows computer.

I have also deleted your identical post in the Owner's Lounge, please do not cross post, thanks!