Help, Vista won't boot/repair, missing acpi.sys and other drivers...

[YukonMaster]

Hi everyone, I am posting from my laptop and my main desktop I bought at NCIX just crashed and now won't boot.

Specs:
Thermaltake Armor w/25CM Side fan.
XFX GeForce 9800GTX 675MHZ 512MB 2.2GHZ GDDR3 PCI-E Dual DVI-I HDCP HDTV Out Video Card
eVGA 750i FTW SLI
Intel Core2Quad 6600
OCZ Platinum XTC PC2-6400 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-800 CL5-4-4-15 DDR2 240PIN Dual Channel Memory Kit
Corsair TX650W 650W ATX 12V 52A 24PIN ATX Power Supply Active PFC 120MM Fan
Samsung 750GB 7200 RPM Sata F1 Spinpoint series

Now it crashed this afternoon after a program stopped responding, I terminated it through task manager as I normally do if a program stops responding..

Once I did that it stopped responding, I believe before I actually terminated it ( I remember the dialog box being open) all sound started to glitch and I restarted it.

Once it powered back on it told me I was missing a driver (10fdasfddfasd.sys (I don't know the exact name)

It told me to Insert the installation disk and repair my comp.

I tried repairing it told me it couldn't find a solution and it would need to contact MS.

After that I did a disk check in CMD and it looked like it had a few indexing errors, it stopped progressing in the middle so I stopped it and restarted.

Upon restart I was greeted with a new error.


\Windows\system32\drivers\acpi.sys was missing.

Once again I tried to repair with no success...

I have over 20 thousand songs and countless movies etc, as well as all my work files, so a reload is out of the question.

Now I do have backups, and I have been running them for over a month with mozy backup, uploading at 900kbps. However uploading 500 GB of data will take some time. I don't know what was uploaded and what wasn't. I believe my media was backed up, but some system files aren't there.

What can I do to resolve this? I have a lot of other computers available so mounting it as a slave isn't a problem, but I want to know what good that will do me.

Looking at the setup disk dir in CMD (booted from Disk) I could see all the drivers I needed, but unfortunately once you load it in Vista, the DIR structure isn't the same and you can't access those files to simply copy them over.


Thanks in advance...

[Kuch]

I'd first suggest going to the Samsung website and download ES-Tool, which is their diagnostic program for their HDDs. Run it per their instructions and see what problems are identified.

If the HDD passes all tests, slave it to another system to get all the information you want off of it and do a fresh Vista install.