Well I had a similar story with a just new from the box HP DV9702US. I worked with it for a while and decided that the web camera that came integrated with it was a junk. So I donwloaded the Vista drivers from the internet for my external camera, installed it and worked with it for a while, turned the pc off, and next day it will not boot up. Somewhere in the boot process the famous BSOD, came up! ( Blue Screen Of Death). The operating system could not boot up and a critical error was been dumped from memory to disk. I found that Vista in that computer comes by default with the restore point creation disabled. So I tried every way to boot up the damn thing until I was able once to boot up, I quickly went to the HP Full restore option and I was able to get the PC back as new like 2 days eralier when I bought it. After that I did the back up DVD operating system DVD's. Now I plan to install Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom. I do know that LR is not Vista ready yet but do know of some people using it. This portable pc has the option for installing a secon HD and I am going that way. I will keep that second HD for putting my files in it ( read the pictures files) in case this happens again! I will backup to 2 external HD and burn DVDs with the keepers raw images. I think Vista is not stable enough yet.
Angel Ramos Arecibo, Puerto Rico Scott Loveless wrote: > Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Scott Loveless wrote: >> >> >> >>> Last night the laptop shot itself in the foot. I'm surfing along, >>> reading my mail, whatever, and explorer crashed. Then my other apps >>> started shutting down. Then windows tells me that it's encountered a >>> critical error and must shut down. Now it won't boot. At all. Safe >>> mode doesn't work either. Compaq was nice enough to install a few >>> recovery utilities on a separate partition. No luck. Seems the only >>> option I have is restoring the laptop to its original condition. 20 GB >>> of photos and other files are located on that machine. At least 6GB >>> >>> >> >from GFM. I really didn't want to lose this stuff. I hate Vista. >> >> Sounds like a hard drive going south >> >> >> >> > That's what I thought, too, but the recovery partition is still > working. One of the tools is a hard drive diagnostic. No errors > found. The file backup utilities on that partition need a drive large > enough to copy to - it's not smart enough to let me swap out usb pen > drives or burn to CD. System restore (also available from the recovery > partition) wasn't enabled. I'm not sure if it wasn't on by default or > if I turned it off at some point. Right now Ubuntu is reading the drive > just fine. I'm beginning to think it's a software issue. Perhaps the > crash corrupted a startup service or something like that. We'll see. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
