NTFS permissions issue? Black screen with cursor on Vista

[Obsoleet]

I have a ssd (ocz solid series 60gb) that i use for vista on my laptop, a friend hooked it up using USB to his laptop and copied a file folder to it to test the speed, then deleted it. After doing so the drive has failed to boot (thru the SATA connection). i use MS steadystate on the drive and see a VCF backing store is corrupt message on boot, it then boots to a black screen with the cursor (after the Vista loading screen that is). users that had the vcf backing store booted into safe mode and were given the option to rebuld the cache, mine simply goes to a black screen with a cursor as it does when i try to boot normally.

i've tried many things including testdisk, gparted, renaming the drive letter, resizing the partition, vista startup recovery. i can see the drive contents using the usb and logged in on my xp install (a different hdd in the laptop) as administrator. under my usual login name which is not an admin, it says access denied and 0 bytes for drive size. i tried resetting ntfs permissions under the admin account, setting the administrators group and system as having full permissions. this did seem to change my boot situation on the vista drive, it ran a chkdsk on the next boot i attempted but still went to a black screen with cursor immediately after rebooting. vista recovery says the last boot was fine and no longer attempts to fix anything. i've also tried disabling all devices in my bios that i could to see if it could be a multipart problem but it didnt help.

any ideas? i did get the files off the drive that i really wanted to recover but i wont be able to format for 3 more weeks, im out of the country. i think it has something to do still with permissions and possibly using different utilities has changed the ntfs version to an older one than vista uses.. yet vista's chkdsk and recovery seems to fail to fix that, if it's intended to do so. there are no recovery points to boot to and so forth.

 

[mpilchfamily]

Sounds like your friend compleatly moved the files from the SSD to his system. So now those files are missing and the system won't boot. You'll just have to perform a repari install or use the recovery tools. Hope you burned your recovery disks.

 

[Obsoleet]

no he just moved some random files into a folder he created, then deleted it. he didnt move any of my system files

 

[Obsoleet]

i didnt think anyone here would know what to do here. usually, if i don't know, few others do.. there's not much left to try besides format (yes ive tried everything that could be suggested with the applications ive listed). thanks to those who read my OP and thought about a possible solution. since i have my files i wanted off of it, i'll format it when i return to the states.