You have only this book and the sound of your breath wafting over
your keyboard like an evening breeze over a dead mongoose.
Luckily, Microsoft has provided an out??”actually, about a dozen of them.
Gone is the frustratingly limited Recovery Console found in Windows 2000
and XP; in its place are a handful of useful ???recovery tools??? on the Vista
setup disc, and several alternative ways to get into Windows that are already
on your hard disk (discussed later in this chapter).
Grab your Vista DVD
The best tools are on your Windows Vista setup disc, the location of which
has probably escaped your mind. If you don??™t have one, and Vista came preinstalled
on your PC, you may have a ???recovery partition??? as described in
Chapter 5; otherwise, contact your PC manufacturer and request the original
Vista DVD (after all, you paid for it when you bought the machine).
Pop the Vista disc in the drive and turn on your computer. (If your PC won??™t
boot off the disc, see Chapter 1.) When you see the ???Install Now??? page,
click the Repair your computer link at the bottom to get to the System
Recovery Options window shown in Figure 6-3.
Here??™s how these options work:
Startup Repair
This is the first step you should take when Vista won??™t start. This tool
repairs your hard disk??™s master boot record (MBR) and partition boot
sector. If Vista still won??™t start after using Startup Repair, read on.
System Restore
This reverts your Windows installation to an earlier incarnation, which is
useful if a recent driver installation has prevented Windows from booting.
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