Heya, just a quick slightly complicated question i need to ask.
Im working on a friends computer, normally i dont get stumped very often, But im hoping to get some assistance.
The Machine :
Gateway M-Series Laptop.. Model No. SA1
250GB HDD
AMD Turion X2 Pro.
Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit.
Problem that is occuring is im getting a Boot configuration data read error. Ok so no problem there, pop in the Recovery CD and load the recovery console. Now here is were it gets messed up. After checking for windows installations, it finds some errors and details them out to me and asks me to restart to fix them. Awesome that was easy. Wrong. Upon trying to restart it gives me an error saying Cannot Save Startup Options. The dialog box that is presented to me is blank, meaning there is no windows installations nor harddrives loaded. So i find the drivers for the HDD and load them, and it does the same thing. I have tried EVERY SINGLE Drivers located in windows vista and none of them work. I tried bootrec/bcdrebuild and that comes up with an error as well. I havent went as far as manually rebuilding the bcd, nor reinstalling (Which i really dont wanna do) Im just asking if any of you have some idea whats going on. Sorry i kinda wrote this fast, if you need anymore detailed information i can post it as soon as possible.
Thanks
Rockwall
Im working on a friends computer, normally i dont get stumped very often, But im hoping to get some assistance.
The Machine :
Gateway M-Series Laptop.. Model No. SA1
250GB HDD
AMD Turion X2 Pro.
Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit.
Problem that is occuring is im getting a Boot configuration data read error. Ok so no problem there, pop in the Recovery CD and load the recovery console. Now here is were it gets messed up. After checking for windows installations, it finds some errors and details them out to me and asks me to restart to fix them. Awesome that was easy. Wrong. Upon trying to restart it gives me an error saying Cannot Save Startup Options. The dialog box that is presented to me is blank, meaning there is no windows installations nor harddrives loaded. So i find the drivers for the HDD and load them, and it does the same thing. I have tried EVERY SINGLE Drivers located in windows vista and none of them work. I tried bootrec/bcdrebuild and that comes up with an error as well. I havent went as far as manually rebuilding the bcd, nor reinstalling (Which i really dont wanna do) Im just asking if any of you have some idea whats going on. Sorry i kinda wrote this fast, if you need anymore detailed information i can post it as soon as possible.
Thanks
Rockwall