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    My X200 WON'T BOOT!! (img included)

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by town2020, Oct 24, 2008.

  1. town2020

    town2020 Notebook Guru

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    My x200 shows up a bluescreen when I try to boot vista..
    I have attempted to recover it to factory settings several times(more than
    10 times infact), but it does not matter; the same symptom happens and
    a blue screen appears when I try to boot vista and it reboots itself..
    I got this exactly one week ago. It doesnt appear to be a big problem.
    I have an external hdd, another comp with dvd writer etc, access to cmd..
    Maybe someone can give me a place where I can get an x200 backups or
    where I can rescue&recovery files(r&r files could be damaged.. just an
    assumption).. Is there anything that I can do?

    This is the blue screen that I get:
    http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd353/teh_shredmaster/DSC00286.jpg
     
    town2020, Oct 24, 2008
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  2. msb0b

    msb0b Notebook Consultant

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    Stop 0x0000007B is code for unavailable boot device error. Sounds like your hardware is still working, so I think it's a software problem. If you changed the SATA mode from AHCI to Compatibility recently, change it back to AHCI and see if that fixes it.
     
    msb0b, Oct 24, 2008
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  3. town2020

    town2020 Notebook Guru

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    Ok.. that fixed my initial problem thanks to msb0b...
    But now I have a bigger problem...
    I formatted by entire drive C:SW_Load
    (still leaving two drives labeled "lenovo" and "service003 or something")
    I thought I did not delete R&R utilities.. (Did I delete R&R by deleting
    C:SW_Load?)
    but now, when I try to turn the comp into factory-state,
    the R&R utility stops in about 1/3 way and asks me to restart.
    Then it restarts and says:

    BOOTMGR is missing
    Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

    and this continues.. Now I think I really screwed up my brandnew laptop
     
    town2020, Oct 24, 2008
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