Vista beta RC1 5600 x64

[Guest]

I know that MS has closed the download but what am i suposed to do, i got
that version installed on one of my laptops and it wont boot up anymore, it
says i need to put in the cd to restore Vista to a previous working state,
but ive lost the cd.
I got importent files on the harddrive that i need and Vista wont load.

Ive searched all over and only found it on a few torrentsites but there are
no seeders.

I dont want to lose all the pictures and other files i have on the computer,
can anyone help me out?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

You have a couple of options:

a) Find a friend who has RC1 still and borrow his/her disk

b) Purchase a retail copy of Vista and install without formatting, then take
ownership of the files (provided you did not encrypt them)

c) Pull the hard drive and slave it in a working desktop, computer shops
sell adapters for this. Copy off the needed data files.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Scott]

I know that MS has closed the download but what am i suposed to do, i got
that version installed on one of my laptops and it wont boot up anymore, it
says i need to put in the cd to restore Vista to a previous working state,
but ive lost the cd.
I got importent files on the harddrive that i need and Vista wont load.

Get yourself a copy of Knoppix (Linux Live CD/DVD). Once it's up and
running, copy the folders with the files/folders you want on to a
flash drive or external hard drive.

Knoppix has saved my butt many times.

http://www.knoppix.net

Scott
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