On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:39:57 -0400, rc wrote:

it hangs at "crcdisk.sys"

That's a bit misleading. *Every* safe mode boot in Windows Vista stops
displaying command lines at crcdisk.sys. What happens after that is not
displayed until the GUI starts to appear, and a lot of stuff is going on
behind the scenes during that fairly long interval.

So all you really know is that the first part of the safe-mode boot was
successful and a failure occurred before the GUI showed up.

"Shenan Stanley" wrote in message
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rc wrote:
Acer Aspire 5100 laptop running windows vista boots up through
windows screen and then continues to blank/black screen. At this
point nothing more happens. Machine was running perfectly fine.
Then I logged off , shutdown, and unplugged charger/power simply to
move to another location. When I attempted to use it again (less
than 5 minutes later) I got the result I described above. If this
sounds familiar to anyone, your knowledge and suggestions would be
appreciated.

Gene E. Bloch wrote:
When you say "logged off, shutdown", do you mean you logged off
from the Start button and then shut down in software from the
button on the screen, or did you shut off using the hardware power
button?
If the latter, that could possibly cause a file corruption or disk
corruption problem.

ISTM that logging off and shutting down, rather than shutting down
directly, is a bit unusual. Or even very unusual. Shutting down
logs users off as part of the process...

rc wrote:
Ray, thanks

rc wrote:
ok, assuming its a system software issue I downloaded a recovery
cd. I then booted from the cd, a screen indicating windows is
installing appears and then a screen with the option to repair
appears. I select repair and two dialog boxes show up both labled
"system recovery options" . One is searching for windows
installations. The other in the background lists the one
installation that I have. But the one in the foreground never stops
searching! And I can't do anything til it does. I was going to
attempt a repair with an installation disk from a friend or
relative but given this last episode I'm not sure anything
different would happen.

Dave-UK wrote:
What sort of recovery disk? Was it a proper Vista repair disk?

rc wrote:
I downloaded it from
http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/downlo...recovery-disc/

So the answer to the second question is "No".

What happened when/if you tried to boot into Safe Mode?

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