I just installed several updates to my premium vista x64 machine, q6600, 2gb ram, 8800gt, asus p5n-e sli mobo. they didn't install correctly as i had to reboot when it was "installing teh updates" when i shut down the computer because it was frozen in a loop for about an hour.
so, i restarted several times and got the computer to boot. everything seemed normal, but then every few seconds the cpu usage on core 1 spiked to about 70-80% and everything freezes for about half-to-one second, making the thing almost unusable.
so today i looked in the auto update panel in vista to see if there was anything i hadn't done. there were two updates, one for office 07 (like 200mb) and one was vista x64 update, but nothing specific (if it helps, the update was published jan. 8th if i remember seeing it correctly). so i just clicked update, it downloaded the files, asked me to restart, and I did. only now it doesn't boot AT ALL. when i select "start windows normally" or "last known good config" it just loops on the black screen with the horizontally scolling status bar. if i select any safe mode it hard freezes after loading the boot files and says "please wait."
please someone help, i need files off the computer even if I have to format.
on a side note, i have two rapotor 74gb hdd that i couldn't get to raid together (thank god now) and i think the files i need are on the second (d: ) drive without the os.... if i just format c: is there a chance i could get d: back to at least copy some files?
so, i restarted several times and got the computer to boot. everything seemed normal, but then every few seconds the cpu usage on core 1 spiked to about 70-80% and everything freezes for about half-to-one second, making the thing almost unusable.
so today i looked in the auto update panel in vista to see if there was anything i hadn't done. there were two updates, one for office 07 (like 200mb) and one was vista x64 update, but nothing specific (if it helps, the update was published jan. 8th if i remember seeing it correctly). so i just clicked update, it downloaded the files, asked me to restart, and I did. only now it doesn't boot AT ALL. when i select "start windows normally" or "last known good config" it just loops on the black screen with the horizontally scolling status bar. if i select any safe mode it hard freezes after loading the boot files and says "please wait."
please someone help, i need files off the computer even if I have to format.
on a side note, i have two rapotor 74gb hdd that i couldn't get to raid together (thank god now) and i think the files i need are on the second (d: ) drive without the os.... if i just format c: is there a chance i could get d: back to at least copy some files?
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