[Carva]

Right then, so here I am again.

After backing my files up onto this computer, I got around to putting my harddrive back into my computer today, I tried booting up normally and it seemed to work, it got to the log on stage, I entered my password but when it says "Welcome" and it's loading, it just stayed like that for a good half hour or so.

I then booted from the Vista DVD which I can now do, I did a Hardware test which showed no errors. I tried to do a Repair, it displays that the problem may be because of new hardware, being my hard-drive, so that wouldn't do anything, I tried a restore, that didn't work either because it claims there hasn't been a restore point set, which is stupid because I do/did them every week.

So nothing worked on that besides I could actually open CMD if that could be of any help? But I closed it because there was nothing I could do at the time.

I tried reinstalling windows/formatting the drive, the first time it tried it I got to the second stage and I got the error: 0x80070002. So no luck there.

I tried again but I saw that I'd done one of the selection boxes wrong, as it should of been UK rather that US, so I tried it with that difference and it didn't work, it went to the screen as before but it stayed at 0% for about 10 minutes, so I rebooted AGAIN, and when left to boot it displays a screen with the error: 0xc000000f with windows\system32\winload.exe is corrupt or missing, something along the lines of that. This is displayed on a black background by the way.

So I'm wondering what I could even try now, my brother is being a jerkoff so he wont fix it, so I figured you guys could help me out, what could I try?

[Elvandil]

Probably a RAM error. Try testing it.

MemScope (Floppy and CD images.)
Microsoft Memory Test (floppy or CD ISO image)
Memtest86

If you have enough memory sticks, you can test them by removing one at a time and see if the problem disappears.

[Carva]

I've tried the Vista hardware test which shows nothing.
I'm not on the computer that has the error at the minute and that is the computer that has the CD/DVD burner mounted so I can't really do those.

I will however try removing the sticks one by one to see which one is causing the problem, I'll get right on it.

[DaveA]

got around to putting my harddrive back into my computer today

Why was you hard drive removed?
Tell us more about this machine!

[Carva]

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vi...2-oh-dear.html

That's my original problem, which has now developed into this instead.