Vista won't boot - just get black screen
- by DisgruntledGoat
When I boot into Windows Vista (Ultimate), I just get a black screen (with the mouse visible and working). If I run in safe mode, it seems to pause for a while when loading crcdisk.sys.
A lot of research says it could be a problem with the hard drive, but I dual boot Ubuntu and that works fine and I can still see and use the Windows partition absolutely fine from Ubuntu.
I tried using the "startup repair" option on the Vista install disk but it didn't detect any problems. I have run chkdsk several times, with this:
chkdsk C: /f /r
And also drive D (the recycle bin). The first two times it detected and fixed errors on the C drive but now it doesn't detect any errors.
Is there anything else that could be causing this problem?