HELP!! Vista won't start

So after coming home from work, I turn on my laptop to find this:



I have done as it says, but Windows repair does nothing.
I don't know what to do.........

PLEASE help...

I'm going to post this is the OS system section too.

 

i would try the vista disc that came with it and use the repair option which at this point you may have already tried but beyond that its going to be a format or use the restore partition to factory Ugh .

 

I would HATE to reformat... All my data would be gone.....
what's restore partition to factory?

 

i havent had to do it yet so im not sure your able to get to the option because of your problem, so if the vista repair option didnt work which im thinking it should because its showing insert the boot cd option to restore the boot bcd then im not sure cause it our systems didnt come with "recovery" disk / when repairing the BCD you may have to try the repair option more then once might take 5 times to get it to work so keep trying.

 

Please don't post the same thread twice. Against Forum Rules.

 

sorry. i just panicked.

 

I have about 10 times already..and nothing

 

Well that sucks it didnt work but your only choice is to just format and start over. Hopefully you made a recovery DVD that was offerd in the options when you first got it which basically gives you all the drivers and Apps . if you didnt make a recovery disk then just format and when your done go to gateway.com and download all the drivers etc and start over. it was the first thing i did when i got my machine was to make the recovery disks for drivers n stuff which i found in a thread before i did a clean install.

 

Probably not that same issue as yours... but I think that I remember seeing that screen on my machine when I left my external hard drive plugged in and then when re-starting my machine. When I unplugged the external hard drive, vista restarted fine. I setup raid 0 so maybe my boot sequence was messed up on my bios...