subject: How to Fix Windows Vista Boot Failure using Windows RE? [print this page] How to Fix Windows Vista Boot Failure using Windows RE?
Microsoft Windows Vista includes a utility Windows RE (Recovery Environment), which is a platform to recover your system from serious errors that may prevent Windows operating system from booting. A Windows Vista computer can failover automatically in on-disk Windows Recover Environment only if it detects a boot failure. Windows loader sets the status flag at startup for indicating that boot process is started. The flag is cleared before logon screen appears. The flag is not cleared if boot process fails. In this case, Windows RE is launched by the loader. It fixes the boot issues, prevent data loss and need of Windows data recovery solutions.
Because failover technique of Microsoft Windows Vista counts on Windows boot loader and Windows boot manager, some failure can render Microsoft Windows Recovery Environment inaccessible. For instance, you have to use a bootable disk of Windows RE to recovering your Windows Vista in the below circumstances:
The disk metadata in the MBR (Master Boot Record), boot sector of the Windows Recovery Environment partition, or partition table is corrupted.
Corrupt or missing Windows boot manager.
Corrupt or missing Microsoft Windows boot configuration data.
Sometimes, the Windows boot loader can not read or write boot status flag. In such cases, Microsoft Windows Vista does not automatically failover in Windows Recovery Environment. But, you can still launch on-disk Windows RE manually, using F8 menu.
How to manually diagnose and repair Windows Vista Boot issues?
When initializing Windows RE from MS Windows RE disk or using F8 menu for launching on-disk MS Windows Recovery Environment, you can manually launch the following system recover tools and fix the issues:
Startup Repair (if not launched automatically).
Windows System Restore (by using the existing restore points, on rollback).
Microsoft Windows Backup Disaster Recovery (for restoring your system from volume backup image).
Command prompt, which can be used to launch all standard tools of Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment) console, such as Chkdsk and Regedit.
If Windows RE can not help you to fix this problem, you need to format the hard drive and reinstall Windows operating system. It removes all the data from hard drive and you have to recover Windows data using third-party tools.
Windows data recovery software are powerful enough to methodically scan whole hard drive and extract all lost data. The Windows recovery tools are totally safe and easy to use.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software recovers lost data from all NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT 12 file system partitions. The software is designed for Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.
