Please help me solve this problem. Vista ultimate 64 bit on a HP9628NR laptop. watch the video below to see an explanation. diskmgmt.msc problem
Please come on guys! No suggestions..... Surely I am not the only person on the planet to encounter this problem! I have replaced the diskmgmt.msc file and it still does the same thing.... It seems the only option I have is to restore to factory settings which is not worth doing because I have years worth of data and applications and customized settings that it would take months and months to get my computer setup the same way....and even then it will not be the same exact way. What other files does diskmgmt.msc rely on if any may be I can replace them also? HEEEEEEEELP ME!!!!!!
I haven't seen or heard of this issue, nor have I been able to find any info on it via the usual suspects. I mean, it would be callous to say, "get in line behaind all the other millions of people with unexplained Vista problems," but there you have it. I had to click through 20 pages of "Vista freezing", "Vista crashing", etc, before I gave up. With all that in mind, my personal suspicion based on my [increasingly rusty] knowledge of the Windows platform is that you've got some registry corruption on your hands. I'm not sure what to recommend personally, since back in the day we knew that when the registry started to go south, it was time for a fresh install. But I've ran Linux and OS X for so long, I'm pretty much out of the loop. Maybe a more Windows-friendly forum goer will have some better advice on this?
Try a System Restore to the time before it happened. Or boot off of the Vista DVD and chooe to Repair Windows. It could be because of malware. Download malwarebytes run Full scan delete nasties.
I bet this guy knows enough about computers to take care of malware... Registry corruption can be fixed with utilities, though, right? Or not 100%? OP, have you tried using "tuneup utilities" by any chance? Heard people recommend that software on this site. I'm betting you've already done all the obvious stuff like registry and malware scanning, so how about this? The issue discussed is different, but someone is talking about using the command-line version of the disk management console. Could you try that? Maybe you circumvent this thing entirely and accomplish all you want via the command line as that person describes. If not, keep trying different forums.
