Unable to repair failed Vista installation

I have an Acer desktop PC running Vista Home Premium which is refusing to boot with the following symptoms:
When I try to boot normally I get as far as the Windows loading screen with the moving bar, after that the screen goes black apart from the pointer and never gets any further.
I get the same result if I try to boot into safe mode except that, of course, instead of the moving bar I can see the various files loading up to and including Windows\System32\drivers\disk.sys
I have tried using a Vista installation DVD to repair but this is unable to find any operating systems to repair.
If I use the Vista installation DVD to go into command mode then bootrec /scanos is also unable to find Windows installations. In fact when loading from the DVD I don't seem able to see my hard drive at all! E.g. Diskpart LIST DISK only shows
removable drives with no media (presumably the ones on my internal card reader). Typing C: gives a drive not ready message.
I've also tried booting from the recovery partition using Alt and F10 during boot but this only gets as far as the "Please wait a moment" screen and stays there forever.
I've even tried re-installing Vista from the Vista installation DVD but this stops and asks for a driver for the DVD drive and will not carry on without it.
Can anyone suggest any way to get the PC working again - I don't need any of the data on it so don't have to worry about saving any data files.
The thing that is really puzzling me is that I can partly boot from the hard drive but then the hard drive seems to be missing when I boot from the Vista installation DVD.
Rob

Hi
This is very strange
How did you try to install the OS from recovery disk?
Did you boot from the CD and did you follow the instruction on the screen?
Or what happens exactly???
Usually the Recovery disk should format the whole HDD and should set the notebook to the factory settings.
Furthermore the Vista is already activated and its not necessary to put any serial keys.
I see in the error message something about Security-Licensing. Im not quite sure what this can be but possibly the could be something wrong with the activating who knows ?:|
But as I said above, the Vista on the recovery disk is already activated.

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PassThroughIds =
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AllocatedSize = 223606734848
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HealthStatus = Unhealthy
Interleave = 262144
IsDeduplicationEnabled = False
IsEnclosureAware = False
IsManualAttach = False
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NameFormat =
NumberOfAvailableCopies =
NumberOfColumns = 1
NumberOfDataCopies = 2
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WriteCacheSize = 0
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Hi omon_77,
You can first refer the following step by step third party article and KB:
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https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn782852.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
Replacing a failed disk in Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces with PowerShell
https://www.hodgkins.net.au/storage/replace-failed-disk-in-storage-spaces-pool-with-powershell/
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Connection Type : External
Partition Map Scheme : Master Boot Record
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks

It sounds like your WD drive is failing. Download Smart Utility from http://www.volitans-software.com/smart_utility.php and see what it says about the health of the drive.
If you scan various discussion groups, you'll see issues with WD external drives, as the electronics can be problematic.

Disk Utility Error- Filesystem verify or repair failed.

I ran Disk Utility and before it finished I received Filesystem verify or repair failed error message.
It says to run repair but I can't
HELP!!! What do I do? What is wrong?
Thanks

Hi , and a warm welcome to the forums!
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
If perchance you can't find your install Disc, at least try it from the Safe Boot part onward.

Help with Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed

I already made a search on this problem already and there aren't many clues as to what could be the problem and solution. Like one of the solutions suggested is to start in safe mode and then restart normally (?) as if that could solve it.
I tried repairing the HD with disk utility and all I get after some time into the checking process is this error:
+Verifying volume “................”+
+Performing live verification.+
+Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.+
+Checking Extents Overflow file.+
+Checking Catalog file.+
+Checking multi-linked files.+
+Checking Catalog hierarchy.+
+Checking Extended Attributes file.+
+Checking volume bitmap.+
+Checking volume information.+
+Invalid volume file count+
+(It should be 866557 instead of 866563)+
+Invalid volume directory count+
+(It should be 203041 instead of 203035)+
+The volume ................ needs to be repaired.+
+Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.+
A screenshot of the Disk Utility error screen: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1186965/apple/diskut7nov.png
Any hints on what should I do, are appreciated, I already corrected permissions, and the problem persists.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Best,
Pedro
P.S.: MacBook unibody early 2009, Leopard 10.5.8

YES, that did it, it seems there are files that Disk Utility can't check while Leopard is running, and interprets as errors. The repair from the Installation CD said the disk seemed OK. No errors reported, just the green OK text.
Thanks for the help.
Pedro

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