So, how do I boot from D (recovery partition) on Vista?

[Ishoss]

My machine decided to take a hike down the highway to hell. Conveniently enough, I don't think the guys I purchased it from included a Disc set. All my efforts so far has sent me to this tool they have, which frankly doesn't work. The tool has reached the conclusion that it can't fix my problem.

Maybe the problem is external, in that case I think the graphic-card is the culprit. One week ago the driver crashed, but it restarted again shortly afterwards. Now I have this weird blue pattern on my screen, but would a graphic card disrupt startup? I can only start sucesfully in safety-mode.

But anyways, how do I boot from the D partition in Vista? As I have understood its use it should in theory re-install vista? It's conspiciously small though...


Oh, and in the case I am supposed to boot from a disc I have miscplaced, how should I proceed? Is my only option either illegal or buying a new OS? Alternately dl'ing Linux?

[Simetrical]

Make sure your monitor is firmly plugged in to your graphics card, and your graphics card is firmly plugged into your motherboard. Does the pattern appear right from when the machine starts up, at POST, or only once Windows starts? Does it appear in safe mode?

You should get an option of which partition to boot to when you start the machine, but I don't remember exactly what it looks like on Windows.

[Ishoss]

Make sure your monitor is firmly plugged in to your graphics card, and your graphics card is firmly plugged into your motherboard. Does the pattern appear right from when the machine starts up, at POST, or only once Windows starts? Does it appear in safe mode?

You should get an option of which partition to boot to when you start the machine, but I don't remember exactly what it looks like on Windows.

The pattern isn't a pattern at start-up. There's a graphical bug at the MSI page which weren't there before. When I go into startup menus the pattern is there, and it is a real pattern there. At the "Windows loading page" (if you know what I mean...) there is no problem with the graphics. It appears in safety mode.

Not sure what POST is.

I will check the graphics card out.

Edit: I disconnected everything from the computer, forgot to turn off the power (that could've been and owie) and proceeded to de-dust it. When I connected everything again the screen wouldn't show anything. (It did display the "no connection detected" or whatever it say when I didn't have it connected, so the screen itself can render stuff) I suppose it's the graphic card itself which is the problem then?