I have been tuning up a Vista Home Premium pc that had not been updated for a while. Windows Update prompted to update to SP2 and duly completed the download. It then prompted for a restart. During the close down it continued to install SP2 updates (as I believe it should) and it then restarted.
However, on restart it went into startup repair and then reported that it could not be repaired automatically. Looking at the Diagnosis and Repair Details shows:
Boot critical file c:\windows\system32\drivers\volmgrx.sys is corrupt.
Restoring to an earlier configuration is not working even though the SP2 update said it had created a Restore Point, and there is way too much stuff installed on this PC for me to be able to just start with a fresh install without it causing major headaches.
How do I repair this if the startup repair utility cannot do it automatically and I cannot boot into Windows to do it from there? Has anybody else had experience of MS update causing such problems?
The PC is a MESH with an AMD Athlon X2 processor, 4Gb RAM, running Vista Home Premium. The boot sequence does not give access to an inbuilt system recovery option and pressing F8 during boot asks you to select the boot device rather than giving access to safe mode etc.
Thanks for your help.
