Ok ya’ll.  I need some serious help.  I'm about feed up with the E-Machine “Support” (And I use that term loosely!!).  I purchased an E-Machine W3621 desktop.  It originally had Vista installed on it, but the factory hard drive had crashed.  Got it for a great deal and figured that I could get it running fairly cheap.  I installed a Maxtor hard drive that I had at the house into the system, formatted it using Fat32.  I ordered a recovery disk for the desktop from E-Machine, and received it this past Friday.  Alright now here is the issue.  I set the boot sequence to boot from CD, which it does.  It completes the initial boot, then I get a black screen that states “Windows is loading files”.  I watch the load bar move across the screen until it reaches the end.  The screen will then go grey for about 30 seconds.  Then a dash will appear in the upper left hand corner, flash for about a minute or so. (During this time, the CD does not cycle or anything).  Then after about a minute, I get this error:
 
Windows Boot Manager
 
Windows failed to start.  A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.  To fix the problem:
 
1: Insert your windows Installation disc and restart
2: Choose your language settings and click “Next”
3: Click Repair your computer
 
If you do not have the disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance (Which is unless, unless you want to spend $60 for 30 min)
 
            File: /windows/system32/drivers/fltmgr.sys
            Status: 0xc0000017
            Info: Windows failed to load because of a critical system driver is missing or corrupt
 
I tried the reboot thing, but it never gets me to the language or repair options.  Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!!!!

To fix the problem:

1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart the computer.
2. Choose your language settings and click next.
3. Click "repair your computer"

It also gives me the following options:

4. Safe Mode
5. Safe Mode with networking
6. Safe Mode with Command Prompt
7. Last known good configuration
8. Start Windows normally



Actions to be taken:
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9. When proceeding using options 4-6, the screen turns black and just hangs there.
10. choosing option 6, will get a list of loaded files. The last loaded file message says:

...
Loaded \Windows\system32\drivers\volmgrx.sys
Loaded \Windows\system32\drivers\atapi.sys
Loaded \Windows\system32\drivers\ataport.sys
Loaded \Windows\system32\drivers\msahci.sys
Loaded \Windows\system32\drivers\fltmgr.sys
Loaded \Windows\system32\drivers\fileinfo.sys"
[Please wait...]

11. boot it with the Vista DVD inserted. 
It prompts to choose an OS to start and displays "Microsoft Windows Vista" as the choice.
Upon pressing ENTER, it takes me to Step 1.

12. Change the boot sequence to boot up from the Dvd drive. It starts up the Windows installation upon reboot.
Upon getting the Vista menu, choose to Repair my computer.

13. A message comes up that says:
"Windows found problems with your computer's startup options.
Do you want to apply repairs and restart your computer?"

Click on "Repair and restart".

14. Step 1 shows up again. choose 8. Start Windows normally.
15. The screen shows the Vista icon and Windows Vista starts up ok.
16. I turned off windows Updates and rebooted the computer and it starts up ok.

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