Windows 10: Windows Vista wont boot and I dont have a repair disk. What do I do?

I have a windows vista dell pc and when I try to boot it, it restarts and said failed to boot. I have many files that I want to get but I cannot boot the pc. One day it booted, I powered it off and than the next day I turned it on and it wouldnt boot. This happend in november of 2024 and still doesnt work. Is their a way to fix this?

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Disk boot failure after removing old Vista partition

Thank you for the reply, muchomurka! As I indicated in my post, I have already tried all the steps you suggested to no avail:

- I cannot choose startup repair since the computer does not boot from the installation media
- I cannot use command prompt since the computer does not boot further than the POST screen
- I have disconnected and tried out all hard drives individually.

Since I had Win 10 up and running a few hours ago, I can say with 100% certainty that none of the hardware is faulty.

The real mystery is, how come the system won't boot from any media without an empty disk containing an old Vista boot sector being on top of the boot priority list? And which steps to take now that I've cleaned this disk and it does not exist anymore?

Would appreciate any ideas and pointers!

 

Windows wont boot; stuck at chk disk

I ran a chk disk the morning, its ran through and rebooted was going normal shown windows splash screen then right back too chk disk again i press any key to skip chk disk and it then reboots....same process...tried F8 doesn't boot, tried last known config doesn't boot,unfortunately i don't have a cd to boot from. I really don't know what to do and need information from this drive. currently I'm running a start-up repair. If this doesn't work what ells could i try?? it shows the windows splash screen then goes right to a chk disk i have ran it twice already. why wont it just boot*Bang Head :banghead:

I have windows 7 ultimate.

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boot repairs?

i updated the bios on my rampage formula. And now for some reason my system automatically boots to Windows XP and i dont have the usual choices of OSes. I have been triple-booting XP, Vista, and Windows 7 for a while now, and i always got the boot screen where i could choose which one.

I tried putting the discs in and repairing the boot sector or whatever its called for both Vista and Windows 7 and it didnt work. It was kinda automated in that i would choose the repair option and it would automatically pop up that the boot record was missing or corrupt and asked me if i wanted to repair that. It did this for Windows 7 and Vista. Both the partitions are recognized as Windows partitions when using the repair feature. But it still just boots into XP. I can figure it out. I guess i could wipe it and reinstall all 3.