Vista will not start, keeps rebooting after start up screen

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denialist

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dear all,
i have a slight problem with my friends laptop, its got Vista installed on it and at some point it stoped loading (what prompted it remains a mistery), after the windows flash screen it restarts again,and freeze anyhow the "advanced boot options menue" didnt help, tried everything, last successfull configuration, safe mode ... all options failed, except repair one (when it lets u choose between start windows normally or repair), which lets me pass the start up screen and then when it loads to desktop (but not showing it, just the background) it hangs.
here is what i got from when i selected the "force no reboot option" and the blue screen:
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
*** STOP: 0x000000ED (0xFFFFFA8004A74060,0xFFFFFFFFC0000010,0x0000000000000000,0x0000000000000000)
Please let me know how can I start Windows, is there perhaps a software that will show the log where you can see what went wrong or the reason why it wont start.
Thank you very much in advance,
 
dear all,
i have a slight problem with my friends laptop, its got Vista installed on it and at some point it stoped

loading (what prompted it remains a mistery), after the windows flash screen it restarts again,and freeze

anyhow the "advanced boot options menue" didnt help, tried everything, last successfull configuration, safe

mode ... all options failed, except repair one (when it lets u choose between start windows normally or

repair), which lets me pass the start up screen and then when it loads to desktop (but not showing it, just

the background) it hangs.
here is what i got from when i selected the "force no reboot option" and the blue screen:
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
*** STOP: 0x000000ED (0xFFFFFA8004A74060,0xFFFFFFFFC0000010,0x0000000000000000,0x0000000000000000)
Please let me know how can I start Windows, is there perhaps a software that will show the log where you can

see what went wrong or the reason why it wont start.
Thank you very much in advance,
 
That would be a bad hard drive, basically you have errors on it. You would need to download the drive makers disk diagnostic utility and run the extended test on it. What brand of hard drive is it?
 
If you can boot into BIOS see if there is a hardware diagnostic tool you can run before Windows boots up. If there is, run it and this should help determine if you've got a hard drive problem. Like johnb35 said, you've more than likely got a failing hard drive.
 
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