Vista Home Premium here - I would greatly appreciate any relevant and helpful
information that could help me with this problem I'm having with my newish
Scaleo P2. I've never had problems with it for the two months I've had it.

Yesterday I was burning some system recovery discs, but I had to leave
before the process was finished. I asked my lady (no lady jokes, please to
just shut off the computer when it was done. She *apparently* just did what I
asked, but said there was a notification about updates that would be
installed before shutdown.

Well, when I turned on the computer this morning there was the usual startup
Vista progress bar (moving green dots) then nothing - blank screen and no
noticable noise from the pc. I noticed the last DVD disc was still sitting in
the drive - I took it out and restarted. Same thing. Restarted and entered
the boot menu and the advanced chipset features - the boot devices were
correct and the HD's were properly recognized.
Safe mode doesn't start up - freezes with 'wait' in the bottom of the screen.
I got in touch with support and entered the Vista repair option. Running the
'Startup Repair' nothing happens - it just keeps running for hours.
Running the 'System Recovery' - from an earlier Windows date, I get a
message that I need to first run disk recovery and repair, which then
proceeds and keeps running with no progress.
I've tried putting in the first of the recovery discs that finished
yesterday, but upon startup, it's like the pc doesn't sense anything's in the
drive.

Anyone?

System Recovery is not Stystem Restore(which is going back to an earlier date)

If you have made the proper Vista Recovery disks, set your BIOS to boot from
the CD/DVD drive, insert the Vista DVD, and reboot to reinstall back to
factory standartds..

It is under Warranty; why don't you contact the makers???

"middlebit" wrote:

Vista Home Premium here - I would greatly appreciate any relevant and helpful
information that could help me with this problem I'm having with my newish
Scaleo P2. I've never had problems with it for the two months I've had it.

Yesterday I was burning some system recovery discs, but I had to leave
before the process was finished. I asked my lady (no lady jokes, please to
just shut off the computer when it was done. She *apparently* just did what I
asked, but said there was a notification about updates that would be
installed before shutdown.

Well, when I turned on the computer this morning there was the usual startup
Vista progress bar (moving green dots) then nothing - blank screen and no
noticable noise from the pc. I noticed the last DVD disc was still sitting in
the drive - I took it out and restarted. Same thing. Restarted and entered
the boot menu and the advanced chipset features - the boot devices were
correct and the HD's were properly recognized.
Safe mode doesn't start up - freezes with 'wait' in the bottom of the screen.
I got in touch with support and entered the Vista repair option. Running the
'Startup Repair' nothing happens - it just keeps running for hours.
Running the 'System Recovery' - from an earlier Windows date, I get a
message that I need to first run disk recovery and repair, which then
proceeds and keeps running with no progress.
I've tried putting in the first of the recovery discs that finished
yesterday, but upon startup, it's like the pc doesn't sense anything's in the
drive.

Anyone?

What does the boot from the Vista Recovery discs do to the files on the HD?
My main reason for not contacting the makers first thing is, as I've learned
the hard way, the eagerness of some makers to
A)hire people who don't know anything
b)suggest or perform the reformat and reinstall option, wiping everything
from the HD with a "sorry, nothing could be done" (=I couldn't be arsed doing
it)

"Mick Murphy" wrote:

System Recovery is not Stystem Restore(which is going back to an earlier date)

If you have made the proper Vista Recovery disks, set your BIOS to boot from
the CD/DVD drive, insert the Vista DVD, and reboot to reinstall back to
factory standartds..

It is under Warranty; why don't you contact the makers???

"middlebit" wrote:

Vista Home Premium here - I would greatly appreciate any relevant and helpful
information that could help me with this problem I'm having with my newish
Scaleo P2. I've never had problems with it for the two months I've had it.

Yesterday I was burning some system recovery discs, but I had to leave
before the process was finished. I asked my lady (no lady jokes, please to
just shut off the computer when it was done. She *apparently* just did what I
asked, but said there was a notification about updates that would be
installed before shutdown.

Well, when I turned on the computer this morning there was the usual startup
Vista progress bar (moving green dots) then nothing - blank screen and no
noticable noise from the pc. I noticed the last DVD disc was still sitting in
the drive - I took it out and restarted. Same thing. Restarted and entered
the boot menu and the advanced chipset features - the boot devices were
correct and the HD's were properly recognized.
Safe mode doesn't start up - freezes with 'wait' in the bottom of the screen.
I got in touch with support and entered the Vista repair option. Running the
'Startup Repair' nothing happens - it just keeps running for hours.
Running the 'System Recovery' - from an earlier Windows date, I get a
message that I need to first run disk recovery and repair, which then
proceeds and keeps running with no progress.
I've tried putting in the first of the recovery discs that finished
yesterday, but upon startup, it's like the pc doesn't sense anything's in the
drive.

Anyone?

On Feb 14, 3:49*pm, middlebit
wrote:
Vista Home Premium here - I would greatly appreciate any relevant and helpful
information that could help me with this problem I'm having with my newish
Scaleo P2. I've never had problems with it for the two months I've had it.

Yesterday I was burning some system recovery discs, but I had to leave
before the process was finished. I asked my lady (no lady jokes, please to
just shut off the computer when it was done. She *apparently* just did what I
asked, but said there was a notification about updates that would be
installed before shutdown.

Well, when I turned on the computer this morning there was the usual startup
Vista progress bar (moving green dots) then nothing - blank screen and no
noticable noise from the pc. I noticed the last DVD disc was still sitting in
the drive - I took it out and restarted. Same thing. Restarted and entered
the boot menu and the advanced chipset features - the boot devices were
correct and the HD's were properly recognized.
Safe mode doesn't start up - freezes with 'wait' in the bottom of the screen.
I got in touch with support and entered the Vista repair option. Running the
'Startup Repair' nothing happens - it just keeps running for hours.
Running the 'System Recovery' - from an earlier Windows date, I get a
message that I need to first run disk recovery and repair, which then
proceeds and keeps running with no progress.
I've tried putting in the first of the recovery discs that finished
yesterday, but upon startup, it's like the pc doesn't sense anything's in the
drive.

Anyone?

I have the EXACT SAME problem - my PC finally boots after about 10
minutes.

What does the boot from the Vista Recovery discs do to the files on the
HD?
My main reason for not contacting the makers first thing is, as I've
learned
the hard way, the eagerness of some makers to
A)hire people who don't know anything
b)suggest or perform the reformat and reinstall option, wiping everything
from the HD with a "sorry, nothing could be done" (=I couldn't be arsed
doing
it)

It's sounds like you have a pre-installed OS and a hidden partition for
doing a System Recovery. Is that correct? These computers don't come with
a Vista DVD. The System Recovery disks are essentially the same as the
hidden partition and if you used them to reinstall your OS you will destroy
all data on the disk. If you have data you might be able to recover it
creating and booting a Bart PE rescue CD. Part PE is basically XP on a CD.
This is a good way to recover data from an XP partition, but I haven't tried
it with Vista.