The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Vista won't load after a system restore.

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by TheGravyOne, Oct 30, 2010.

  1. TheGravyOne

    TheGravyOne Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    22
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hello. I restored my laptop to an image created the 1 time I used the laptop. Since restoring the system windows won't load. After the initial boot screen and check to boot from cd it just resets. It never makes it to the windows loading screen with the green bar. I'm dual booting Vista and ubuntu but can't get into either. Any ideas?
     
    TheGravyOne, Oct 30, 2010
    #1
  2. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

    Reputations:
    4,745
    Messages:
    8,513
    Likes Received:
    3,823
    Trophy Points:
    431
    As i said before i have not used an multi-boot os before, but i found the info below, it might be of some use.

    EDIT : there must be a bootable cd/dvd that can you can use to fix your problem, I just tried the free partiton manager but i could not see an option to fix your boot.ini or vista equivalent.

     
    Tinderbox (UK), Oct 30, 2010
    #2
  3. Nankuru

    Nankuru Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    215
    Messages:
    592
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    When you install Ubuntu as a dual boot, the GRUB bootloader is installed. Assuming you don't have a hardware problem, what seems to have happened is the system restore has corrupted GRUB or more likely made the boot process look in the wrong place for GRUB.

    Best bet is to try a repair option on the Ubuntu disc. If that fails, then Boot Problems Open Source Tools | Super Grub Disk, Super Grub2 Disk and Rescatux has fixed problems like this for me.

    This should be in the linux section.
     
    Nankuru, Oct 31, 2010
    #3