Vista And Me

Three days ago I was playing with a fresh installed Vista service pack 1 RC1, wanted to make a bright finish I launch a check disk, but it was taking too much time, then after a long period I decide to interrupt, I then reset my computer so at the boot it try to start again the check disk, I cancel it by using the option and suddenly it restart itself and then began the troubles.

First boot :

Recovery console with the message Winload.exe is missing or corrupt

Second boot : trying the recovery with the DVD, 2 attempts fail. Then I jump on my Bart-PE CD, launch it and I can access to my windows partition.

Launching an another check disk(yes stupid) to verify my disc, and suddenly realizing that all this story start with check disk, I stopped it and reboot on bart-pe and...

...Horror my Vista partition was,I can't believe it, was empty...

...Wake up after a big knock-out.

Everything was not loose, I decide to use my special weapon a backup of my windows partition located on an external usb hard drive.

Connecting everything, launching bart-pe to manage the recovery ,start the restoration, everything goes OK. Perfect.

Rebooting, windows start and after connecting with windows update it start downloading and installing the last updates. When it have finish with the updates I close everything I reboot and... "Winload.exe is missing or corrupt"

Stay cool don't beat it, it's only a machine, done a second restoration I get the same message at the reboot my after my updates, I decide to really check my partition I run the Bart-Pe environment and I check that disk (yes I love problems), after a scan with no error , I decide to try another restoration from my usb drive, and then Oh no...

My restore disk get corrupted...

Why, I don't know, why me, cause this was my destiny...

Now it was not any more time to speak to play it was time to fight.

I went in my limps Cd to take the heavy weapon, I mean the Ultimate Boot Cd.

And after all I was not so angry cause, all my important stuff was in the second and third partition, and in the fourth there was...

Linux...

OK after seeking on the net about this "winload.exe is missing or corrupt", I find many forums with discussion about this issue, and also many solution, I also discover that my Vista hibernate problem was maybe due to this totally new boot loading system.

Failing, to recover vista with many solution I suddenly think winload.exe is missing or corrupted(in system32), so I should find it's original location.

Try to find it by browsing my vista disc, unfortunately nothing, then I load bart-pe and I decide to browse my windows folder looking for an eventual boat folder.

Inside windows folder I find one boot folder but no trace of winload.exe, I then open system32 and of course winload was not there but ô surprise there was another boot folder, open it and winload.exe was there, I simply copy it in my system32 folder, quickly restart and...