Vista won't initialize startup

[mknabster]

I just installed Vista x64 this morning onto a brand new Bootcamp partition (I'm using a Mac), and everything was running fine until after it installed the updates it automatically downloaded and installed. I don't know if it's normal, but it took Vista about 5-10 mins just to get to the welcome screen, then it was immediately loaded. But then i restarted it, and i received an error message saying that Vista could not initialize startup, and for me to put the Vista disc in, and repair the installation. I tried that, and the disc had no such option for repair. So what happened to the installation?

This is the original message:


And this is what i get when i try last known good config:

[shadowpr]

Can you get into safe mode?

Might want to just try to reinstall it again.

Did you do the apple updates, or windows updates?

[mknabster]

Yea i get the same blue screen of death message when i tried all 3 safe modes. Yea this all happened after i installed the available Windows updates. Do you have any ideas of what could be the cause of it?

[shadowpr]

Probably a windows update that doesn't agree with it.

Did you install any hardware updates from microsoft?

[mknabster]

I guess i'll go back to not installing any updates again. No, i didn't install any hardware updates through Microsoft, i don't trust them in that respect.

[shadowpr]

Could try to just select the critical updates, and then read over the rest. Don't install anything you don't need.

And I would also try to do only a few at a time.

[mknabster]

Yea, i was looking at the updates, and they were all "critical" security updates. It's SP1 though, i don't think it got around to installing SP2. But i have a question, what's Server 2008, coud that be used as an OS?

[shadowpr]

Server 2008 is an operating system, but it's geared towards servers. Not really made for the average desktop computer.

And sp2 isn't out yet, as far as i know.

I would try to redo the partition. Make sure it has enough space as well.

[mknabster]

Yea i just got done installing Windows 7, doesn't have support for my graphics card utilities, so i can't use my external monitor with it unfortunately. So i'm just trying to figure out what i'm going to do now.