I'm having a big problem with my Vista Ultimate install. I reinstalled last night, and have been spending today moving the bulk of my data from my Windows XP partition to the Vista partition, and resizing the two partitions (taking free space from the XP one to give free space to the Vista one) as needed. Vista worked perfectly fine before I did the bulk of the data transfers and two partition resizing sessions. The order of actions went like this:
1. Created new partition from free space of XP partition; installed Vista and all Windows Updates and drivers, security apps and some utilities (defrag software, CCleaner, etc.). Used Vista all morning with no issue. Defragged both partitions with Auslogics Disk Defrag.
2. Booted back into XP and used Acronis Disk Director to resize Vista partition to 100 GBs (from 35 GBs), shrinking the XP partition by the same.
3. Moved my music collection (about 85 GBs of FLAC and WMA Lossless files; I keep backups of all my CDs) from the XP to Vista partition (from within XP)
4. Resized partitions again to give Vista another 90 GBs; moved over my program installers archive (also pretty large due to lots of mods for games).
5. Try to boot back into Vista to do some housecleaning, and get the following message:
My question is: what do I do? Do I follow the instructions above? If so, how exactly do I do it (do I boot from the disk, or choose Vista from the bootloader and do something from there)? Also, most importantly, will this repair keep my data intact? If not, I'll reverse my partitioning resizes and move the files back to the XP partition for now.Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
1. Install your WIndows installation disk and reboot.
2. Choose your language settings, click Next
3. Choose "Repair your computer"
File: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Status: 0xc0000225
Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupted
Please help; I'd hat to lose those two directories, not to mention to have wasted a day and a half trying to re-migrate over to Vista.