Trouble:

One of our readers reported that when he starts his computer, he gets a message like “Verifying DMI pool, Booting from CD and then there is an error like Non-System Disk or Disk error Replace and press any key when ready”

One of the messages shown in this type of problem is given in the image above some other messages are like DISK BOOT FAILURE, NTLDR is missing etc.

There can be several reasons for this kind of error, like :

• Non-bootable floppy or CD present in drive
• Corrupt boot-loader
• Faulty Hard disk drive

Let us see the fix for each of these.

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Trouble:

One of our readers got the error message “There was a error message in burning the disc. The disc might no longer be usable“.

This problem is observed with windows vista. When users try to burn disc using windows vista default cd writing system, this problem may occur. This problem is not very common, it occurs sometimes due to some typical issues.

Let’s see how can we fix it.

Fix:

This error message normally occurs when following conditions are true:

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Trouble:

We got a problem from one of our reader that was not able to boot into his windows vista, as the boot loader of vista got corrupted due to some reason.

What happens when he try to boot his windows vista ?

At the time of starting Windows Vista, he receive the following error message:

File: \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc0000034
Info: The Windows Boot Configuration Data file is missing required information

Why windows vista boot loader gets corrupted?

Boot loader of windows vista is very sensitive, it contains a large number of files which gets altered due to installation of older versions of windows over windows vista. It may also get infected due to virus action also.

Let’s how we can fix the corrupted windows vista boot-loader

Fix:

There are two method to fix the corrupt windows vista boot loader. Lets discuss both one by one.

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Trouble:

One of our readers reported a problem, when he tried to access files located in the different user profile directory in vista, he got the message prompt saying access denied.

Why Access Files in other user account?

You must be thinking what is the need of this ,but it may be the case when you forgot the password of your account and you may have some very important files in your my documents or in some other user profiles folder.

Why Access denied?

In Windows Vista user accounts files are protected and private to the user itself by default, so no other account will have access to any directory or files located inside user profile folder.

For Example: When anyone try to open a protected folder, got a message prompt.

(see the image below)

(assuming C drive is where you have installed windows)

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Problem: It is a very commonly faced problem that microphone does not work, or not detected properly with Microsoft windows viata.

Solution: First of all find the latest version of the audio driver which is compatible to vista, as most of the drivers that are shipped with sound-card or motherboard cd contain drivers which have support for only until windows Xp.

So it is strongly recommended to download the latest audio driver from the internet for your sound-card or on board audio chipset. Install the vista compatible audio driver (sound driver) for your sound-card or motherboard audio. After this re-start your computer. Half of the work is done.

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