Rescuing XP After Vista Clean Install

[Ted]

Last spring I received Vista Home Premium for my birthday and attempted to do
a clean install on my Toshiba laptop running XP SP2. After a long period I
was informed that my laptop wasn't ACPI compliant. From then on whenever I
booted I was given a choice of booting to my previous OS (XP). This became a
pain. So I decided to try use my Toshiba Recovery disk to eliminate Vista
and reinstall XP. Booting from the recovery disk informed me that I had a
stack overflow in my config.sys file. XP doesn't have a config.sys file so I
modified my config.nt file to add stacks=64,512. This didn't work either. So
here I am with a fairly new Toshiba laptop that is corrupted with a piece of
junk software. By the way, Thursday I received a new Dell Vostro preloaded
with Windows XP. No more Vista for me.
Anyway, how can I disable any traces of Vista on my Toshiba and reinstall XP
with my recovery disk.
Thanks in advance for any help I may receive.

 

[philo]

Last spring I received Vista Home Premium for my birthday and attempted to do
a clean install on my Toshiba laptop running XP SP2. After a long period I
was informed that my laptop wasn't ACPI compliant. From then on whenever I
booted I was given a choice of booting to my previous OS (XP). This became a
pain. So I decided to try use my Toshiba Recovery disk to eliminate Vista
and reinstall XP. Booting from the recovery disk informed me that I had a
stack overflow in my config.sys file. XP doesn't have a config.sys file so I
modified my config.nt file to add stacks=64,512. This didn't work either. So
here I am with a fairly new Toshiba laptop that is corrupted with a piece of
junk software. By the way, Thursday I received a new Dell Vostro preloaded
with Windows XP. No more Vista for me.
Anyway, how can I disable any traces of Vista on my Toshiba and reinstall XP
with my recovery disk.
Thanks in advance for any help I may receive.

Since the recovery Cd does not boot to the OS ...merely restores the
recovery image...
it looks more like a H/W problem of some sort.

Anyway...as long as you have a working copy of XP on the machine...
I'd not bother to restore the OS...
merely modify boot.ini to get rid of the unwanted reference...and to just
boot directly to XP

 

[Ted]

Since the recovery Cd does not boot to the OS ...merely restores the
recovery image...
it looks more like a H/W problem of some sort.

Anyway...as long as you have a working copy of XP on the machine...
I'd not bother to restore the OS...
merely modify boot.ini to get rid of the unwanted reference...and to just
boot directly to XP

Philo,
Thank you for your prompt response.
There is no boot.ini file on my hard drive. The only file I could find is
boot.ini.backup which reads:
;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN

There is no BCDEDIT.exe on my hard drive.
Open for more suggestions.
Ted/

 

[philo]

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Since the recovery Cd does not boot to the OS ...merely restores the
recovery image...
it looks more like a H/W problem of some sort.

Anyway...as long as you have a working copy of XP on the machine...
I'd not bother to restore the OS...
merely modify boot.ini to get rid of the unwanted reference...and to just
boot directly to XP

Philo,
Thank you for your prompt response.
There is no boot.ini file on my hard drive. The only file I could find is
boot.ini.backup which reads:
;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN

There is no BCDEDIT.exe on my hard drive.
Open for more suggestions.
Ted/

Well I booted up with my Vista DVD and cancelled the install and tried the
normal repair console commands...
but there is no fixboot or fixmbr...
so my knowledge of Vista now comes to an end.
Hopefully someone else will have a solution.

What I'd do after you check your RAM and HD would be to install XP...
then put the Vista DVD in from a running XP installation and try an
upgrade...

otherwise...just stick with XP if your hardware does not support Vista