JayMina

Unfortunately all I can remember about it is that it's eMachines E4264, nvidia, intel core 2 duel that's about all I know. Sorry if that's little / no help. Oh and on a side note, I tried connecting up a master xp and it didn't blue screen but went into a boot loop instead.

No, we don't have anything we can use to connect them via USB

Well sorry I haven't checked in a while, I ended up having tonnes of other stuff to do ... I slaved it to another vista and all it did was go to the blue screen and crash dump. It's not working so what should I do / try now? Or is this like the end for my hard drive?

Okay, thank you for your replies. I will try that as soon as possible. I can't believe it seems like a lost cause... What really causes this error? If anyone knows?

Well I went to another help site and they suggested taking out the hard drive and making it a slave to check it and get the data. Any other suggestions are still welcomed.

When I type cd /mnt/windows/\$Extend/RmMetadata It says: cd: no such file or directory: mnt/windows/$Extend/RmMetadata EDIT: Found the reason it needs to be $RmMetadata Oh and the error is still appearing after I've put the Vista disc in

Sorry about not replying sooner. Well I followed the steps in the walk through solution: ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows -o force (It opened the right drive) cd /mnt/windows/\$Extend cd \$RmMetadata rm -rf \$TxfLog cd / umount /mnt/windows init 6 Then I put in the Vista CD and it said, booting from disc, loading then blue screened. I then thought maybe I'd done it wrong and repeated the steps above but I could not remove the $TxfLog it says "cannot remove '$TxfLog': Input/output error"

All seemed to be going well, put the disc in and it still went to blue screen It boots from the disc but then still gets the blue screen before getting to the log in page.

Is there a direct download version? This isn't my laptop and the owner doesn't have a torrent downloader, nor wants me to install one.

Well I've done that up to step 6 but it didn't seem to work so I tried again and it says that the $TxfLog file isn't there , any ideas?

Oh I've already burned off a disc and it's worked thanks now I'm just trying to do step 2 (Sorry if I don't make much sense at times)

Yes I found this a while after my problem first started, I only realised about an hour ago I need an image burner to put it on. Although now I'm not quite sure I'm doing it right regardless of there being steps =/

Yes but it goes as far as normal booting - doesn't get as far as the log in screen still.

No I don't unfortunately. No other disks and no CD.

Unfortunately I've read that about 8 times? No it doesn't help seen as I can't load my computer up.