Hi, I recently replaced the hard drive in my boyfriends laptop, the hard drive was 100% healthy. I Installed a fresh copy of Vista and everything was running swimmingly. I installed a few programmes but nothing sinister, ccleaner, firefox, nero, just the usual suspects. The laptop did loads of updating which was to be expecting considering the new installation of vista. But then I encountered a problem where every time I opened something, like the web browser or even task manager, the programme would open for a few seconds and then close down when you went to click something. I rebooted in hope it would rectify it'self but upon restart encountered a blue screen error. I tried to reboot in safe mode, again encountering the blue screen error.
I tried F9 hoping to be given the startup repair options but that option was missing from the list, so I ran the vista disc and initialized startup repair from the disc. It recognised there were problems and told me it was attempting repairs. Once the startup repair and finished the laptop rebooted to another blue screen. I ran the vista disc again, ran the startup repair again. Once startup repair had run it told me this time that it could not repair the problem. I then tried system restore which failed on two occasions.
I ended up formatting the hard drive and installing another fresh copy of vista.
Everything appears to be ok again now. But I would like to get to the bottom of what happened to prevent it happening again. Luckily it was a new install of vista last time and I hadn't had chance to save anything important on there. I don't want it to happen again if I can help it.
The last change that was made to the computer before the blue screen would have been the installation of service pack 2. Would that have been the problem? Should I advoid installing it this time?
Many Thanks
