Hello
A friend of mine has a problem with her Windows Vista laptop. After launching a much-needed update (something she hadn't done in years), the computer no longer runs OK: After booting up, Windows displays "Please wait..." but it never goes anywhere.
I booted with the Vista DVD, chose "Repair your computer" which said that there was nothing wrong :-/
Next, I booted it up with a Linux USB keydrive, and ran Gparted 0.8.1 (which includes ntfsresize v2011.4.12AR.4 libntfs-3g) which displays a bunch of warnings for the NTFS partition where the Vista system is located such as:
Quote:
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup: magic: 0x00000000 size: 1024
usa_ofs: 0 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
Record 16 has no FILE magic (0x0)
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Next, I ran ntfsfix /dev/sda2, which said:
Quote:
Mounting volume... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
NTFS partition /dev/sda2 was processed successfully.
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Next, I rebooted Vista, which did a CHKDSK, before rebooting.
But I'm still getting nowhere with "Please wait..."
Before I copy her data to another host and reinstall Vista from a DVD, does someone know what I could try?
Thank you.