Chapter 13 Thinking Critically

your windows system boots to a blue screen stop error and no start screen or desktop. what do you do first?

Attempt to boot into Windows RE using the Windows setup DVD or a recovery Drive

An error message is displayed during Windows 7 startup (before the flag appears) about a service that has failed to start, and then the system locks up. You try to boot into Safe Mode, but get the same error message. What do you try next?

Boot to Windows RE and perform a startup repair

When the Windows registry is corrupted and you cannot boot from the hard drive, what tool or method is the best option to fix the problem?

Use commands from the Windows Recovery Environment to recover the registry from backup

Your computer displays the error message "A disk read error occurred." You try to boot from the Windows setup DVD and you get the same error. What is most likely the problem?

boot device order is set to boot from the hard drive before the optical drive

When a driver is giving problems in Windows, which tool offers the least intrusive solution?

device Manager

You have important data on your hard drive that is not backed up and your Windows installation is so corrupted you know that you must repair the entire installation. What do you do first?

make every attempt to recover the data