Laptop won't boot- don't know solution?

[hdrevolution123]

Laptop won't boot- don't know solution?
I used Paragon Partition Manager to shrink my main volume and get some unallocated space. It asked me to reboot and then when it did it started up and booted but before the vista logo appeared, the screen went blank for ages but the power, wifi lights at the base of my laptop were on (green) but the Numlock, Caplock, Scroll lock buttons near my keyboard were not on. I realised that nothing would happen so had to force switch it off by holding the power button.

From there I switched it on again and a command prompt appeared saying "Interrupted Operation, please insert recovery CD or other media"

Problem is, and I laugh out loud about this, is that I never made a recovery CD, foolishly, but I did backup my computer so I have a .tib recovery file (40GB!) in my external hard drive. What the **** do I do now?

BTW I have backed up most of my personal data to my external hard drive, thank goodness. Also my laptop is a Sony Vaio VGN-N31S running on Windows Vista HP- if you wanted to know.

PLease help me, though I try to keep my calm about this.
I used Paragon Partition Manager to shrink my main volume and get some unallocated space. It asked me to reboot and then when it did it started up and booted but before the vista logo appeared, the screen went blank for ages but the power, wifi lights at the base of my laptop were on (green) but the Numlock, Caplock, Scroll lock buttons near my keyboard were not on. I realised that nothing would happen so had to force switch it off by holding the power button.

From there I switched it on again and a command prompt appeared saying "Interrupted Operation, please insert recovery CD or other media"

Problem is, and I laugh out loud about this, is that I never made a recovery CD, foolishly, but I did backup my computer so I have a .tib recovery file (40GB!) in my external hard drive. What the **** do I do now?

BTW I have backed up most of my personal data to my external hard drive, thank goodness. Also my laptop is a Sony Vaio VGN-N31S running on Windows Vista HP- if you wanted to know.

PLease help me, though I try to keep my calm about this.

 

[Dodongo]

Why didn't you just use vista's built-in partition shrinker? Also, stop saying the same thing over and over.
Try to boot with a linux liveCD like Ubuntu or Knoppix and see if you can still access your windows partition. It sounds like you probably screwed up the partition table.

Your best bet is to try and backup some stuff from linux, then restore your .tib backup with acronis and add back in the missing files.

 

[Jonkku]

External harddrive into the computer you used to post that --> Use the file to make that restore CD --> put the CD in the laptop --> ??? --> PROFIT!

And who uses a program to turn down volume? :F
Also, why is the font so big and why did you paste the text twice?

 

[noradseven]

I don't know but it sounds like you didn't know what you were doing and yeah why didn't you just use the built in stuff my experience with 3rd party stuff has been subpar. If you have all the data backed up you could just reformat, but a recovery disk might work try that too, it depends on how it broke on what will work. try the recovery disk first though least effort.

 

[GenesisJLS]

Just format your computer with the discs that came with your computer. If you don't have those discs any longer, simply get a friends copy of Vista and install it. Then download the drivers for your machine from the Sony website.

 

[hdrevolution123]

I don't know but it sounds like you didn't know what you were doing and yeah why didn't you just use the built in stuff my experience with 3rd party stuff has been subpar. If you have all the data backed up you could just reformat, but a recovery disk might work try that too, it depends on how it broke on what will work. try the recovery disk first though least effort.

Yeah my disk management stopped working and closed everytime I tried to access it. Same thing happened when i tried to change my windows appearence to windows aero. It said runhostdll somthing has stopped working . Hence I couldn't use the builtin disk management (