Vista will not boot?
Is your Vista not booting? Don’t panic! You just need a Boot DVD. While booting your new Vista computer, you get hard drive errors with a message that says "Cannot find STUPIDDRIVER.SYS". Your Vista won’t boot, and you will be in a fix. You cannot even get into Safe Mode to run a disk scan. Are you thinking of reinstalling the OS? You don’t need to do that.
Luckily you can fix your Vista by running a disk scan with Vista's Boot DVD. Follow these steps.
- 1. Insert an appropriate (32 bit or 64 bit) Vista installation DVD in DVD Drive.
- 2. Switch on your computer. You will be prompted to boot from CD or DVD. Otherwise, you have to go to BIOS and change your optical drive as your first boot device.
- 3. Upon booting Vista DVD, you will see the first installation screen. Just click “next”.
- 4. Then, select the repair option and click it. Select the Vista installation that you would like to fix. Usually, there is only one listed. If you find no operating systems listed there, then you need to know that some major failure has taken place. In such case, you will be left with two options – either vista to reinstall or even hard disk replacement. First try to reinstall Vista. If it doesn’t work, the next option will be hard disk replacement. But before that …
- 5. We have to scan hard disk. Click the System Recovery Options. Click on Command Prompt.
- 6. If Vista is installed in C drive, then type CHKDSK c: /f and press Enter. It automatically fixes any errors. If you still get drive errors, then type CHKDSK c: /r. It will take considerably more time to execute. CHKDSK will run and print a report on completion.
- 7. After fixing your drive. Type cd c:\windows. Type dir STUPIDDRIVER.SYS /s. Replace "stupiddriver" with your missing file. The "s" parameter searches all subdirectories. Let us say you find a copy of stupiddriver.sys in file repository. If the location is found different, replace it with your directory.
- 8. Type copy c:\windows\system32\driverstore\filerepository\\stupiddriver.sys c:\windows\system32\drivers. You may be prompted to overwrite. Simply confirm. This will copy one of the backup files to the location. If you do not find the backup file, then search in Vista DVD or get this file from another computer with Vista and copy it.
- 9. Finally, exit from System Recovery tool and then reboot again. Here, first, you need to eject the boot DVD. Else go back to BIOS and change boot drive priority as C drive(assumed that Vista is installed in C drive).
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