WINDOWS VISTA HELP

[Guest]

Hey guys, i downloaded windows vista 32x and 64x and i burned them on DVD,
using nero, with my AV off and i don;t think it was a dvd problem..the
installation got stuck at like 79% or so and said the error number
:"0x80070017" i tried the installation few times same results..now since i
formatted ma computer with vista i have no windows on my laptop plus when i
try to install my XP back it says BOOTMGR missing press ctrl+alt+del to
restart..nd now i need help realllllyyyyyyyyyy badddd i have Dell Inspiron
laptop with 1.7 GHz, media edition, 1024 ram.. soo i need help as soon as
possible..either help me get my XP back or get me Vista any one will work
Thankz a lot guys

 

[Clark]

Maybe I can help, but please post back if it works. If you have an install
or files you need to keep, you probably will not want to do this!!!!

It appears to me that Vista leaves something on the hard drive during a
failed installed that messes it up for other installs. I just spent a few
hours experimenting with this and it seems if I set the partition to not
active, I could boot from the DVD again. So what I have been doing, is
using Fdisk to delete the partition, and then recreating it. Make sure you
don't allow Fdisk to make it active, which it asks to do if you agree to
allow the entire drive to be used for the partition. I did not format the
partition either.

Then when installing Vista, the DVD would boot because the hard drive
partition was not active so Vista did not try to boot to the failed install.
I just let Vista do it's thing with no special disc functions, such as
formatting, during the install.

Some folks have been having problems reaching the "Boot to DVD" option, and
I now know why. To get around that situation, if the partition is not
active, the DVD will boot without a prompt.

I have not tried this in XP-it may be different. I also don't have other
files on my hard drive I need to keep, so deleting the partition did not
bother me. There may be other ways of doing the same thing, but this is the
procedure I will use.

Clark

 

[Guest]

Heyy Clark thnkxxx a lot for the reply but there WAS some imp data on the
drive but i did what you said and the samething happnd again so m in the same
situation again and lol i dont know what to do i calld microsoft ppl and
they asked me to post here looks like i am going to end up paying 100 of
dollars getting it fixed still thanks a lot man.

 

[Clark]

There are some programs that will set a partition as inactive, but I don't
know which ones they are. You might do a Google search and I will do some
more research. I tried Partition Magic, but it doesn't appear to have that
capability. Fdisk, it seems, can only set a partition to active and not the
reverse.

Clark

 

[mikeyhsd]

if you formatted your hard drive to install vista, then you need to format it again to install XP again.

the boot information for XP is missing.

if you burned the dvd at a speed higher than 2X that is probably the problem with the dvd.



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Hey guys, i downloaded windows vista 32x and 64x and i burned them on DVD,
using nero, with my AV off and i don;t think it was a dvd problem..the
installation got stuck at like 79% or so and said the error number
:"0x80070017" i tried the installation few times same results..now since i
formatted ma computer with vista i have no windows on my laptop plus when i
try to install my XP back it says BOOTMGR missing press ctrl+alt+del to
restart..nd now i need help realllllyyyyyyyyyy badddd i have Dell Inspiron
laptop with 1.7 GHz, media edition, 1024 ram.. soo i need help as soon as
possible..either help me get my XP back or get me Vista any one will work
Thankz a lot guys

 

[Rich]

Were you attempting an upgrade from XP? Or were you setting it up as dual
boot? If you were attempting an upgrade then your old XP installation has
probably been trashed and I would go for option 2 below otherwise try 1
first.

There are a few things you could try if all you need is to get access to
your data to back it up before a fresh install.

1) Perform a repair install of XP if you have the CD. Check it is the full
OS cd. Be careful I think Dell sometimes only supply a recovery CD and using
that will overwrite your hard drive.

2) If the above doesn't work then try a clean install of XP but don't format
the disk just specify a new folder for XP to install to.

3) There are adapters available that make it possible to connect a laptop
hard drive to a PC. If you can get hold of one of these they don't cost much
and a PC you can get your data off the drive.

Post back to the group if you need any assistance with the above.

 

[Guest]

hey thnkx a lot again guys that helpdd me get out of the problem i mde a boot
cd using windows xxp original cd and started the installation but now ots
giving me some other error:S it says smethin is wrong with my harddrive,
check 4 viruses and make sure ur hard drive is functionaning proparly..so m
lost again omgg i nvr faced so mch difficulties fixing something ..srry guys
taking so mch of ur time but i dont have any options i have uni mid-terms
this week and i cant study without my laptop everything is on it ...so
plzz help me out and i really appriciate ur help