I am running windows vista 64bit. I shut down my computer at night and when I went to reboot in the morning I came back to a black screen with a curser.  When I hard booted it, it did the check DISK for errors and then went to a blue screen.  After I rebooted from the blue screen it opened to windows figured I had a problem so ran a virus scan, that rebooted my computer on its own and went to an all black screen thats said A boot disk error occured press cntl ALT del to restart, did that a couple times kept bringing me back to the same black screen.  Pressed F8 to get into safe mode worked once started loading safe mode froze and restarted now all I get is a black screen with a blinking curser line.  And now to top it all off F8 doesn't work at all to get me to the Advanced windows option screen, I can only get into bios and boot.  I don't have a windows disk as it is partitioned on my computer (which is the stupidest thing EVER done by stores) but i did make a recovery disk but when i try to run it from my disk drive nothing at all happens.  If anyone could help that would be great.  also my hard drive was very hot thought maybe it needed AIR so it is now still connected to the computer but free of anything and it still gets pretty hot.Hie

  First, anex your hard disk as a slave to another computer and save your files.Then try repair  using the installation disk.

Or else  you need to reinstall from scratch. Your computer is infected


Guug luckyWhen you say nothing happens when you try to "run" the recovery disk, what does that mean? Are you actually booting to that disk? Make sure the cd drive is the first device in the boot order in your bios.I am not to sure how to annex my hd but will try and figure it out.  Yes my cd drive is first, I found a boot/fix disk that I can use it takes me to a screen as if I pressed F8 but only will let me us a command prompt and fix START up, when I use fix start up one time it will say everything is fine the next it will just tell me to unplug everything except my mouse and keyboard.  I don't have the installation disk for vista what ever it is, is partitioned on my computer and I have no idea how to get at it.  So I know it goes through to the disk because the other one works but when I put in the recovery disk it runs like its going to start up for like 5 mins then stops, the whole time being on the black screen with a blinking curser.Do you happen to know anyone with a Vista CD ? ?No i have an XP disk is there anyway to just install xp instead? If I lose everything than I lose but at least it will work, plus I am thinking of getting windows 7 but don't wanna but it if this comp is screwed upIf you want to wipe it and install XP i'd collect the neccessary drivers beforehand...

Clean Install of XP