Vista will not boot, restore or run from CD.

[Andy]

I recently tried out Ubuntu 6.06 on my Vista laptop. I am pretty sure that it
wasn't installed, and it was only the Live CD. When I restarted the laptop,
Vista would not load - it would simply be stuck on the boot screen (with the
green loading bar).

When I press F12 and try to boot from the CD, it says that it is loading
from the CD, then the screen goes black after the loading bar has finished.

When I press F8 to try a repair, it goes to the boot screen, then goes black.

After each attempt I must hold the power button to turn the laptop off. When
I turn it on again, and select Startup Repair as my startup option, it goes
to the boot screen, then goes black.

This laptop is new, and Vista was functioning perfectly before I tried out
Ubuntu. I have read about restoring the MBR with a bootsect thing, but I
don't know how to access the Command Prompt before actually booting up.
Please help me! Thanks in advance.

 

[Olaf]

Linux Live CDs do not touch any part of the Harddisk or do modify your
startup settings in any way possible,

So you have either a Vista problem or a hardware going down the drain, to
blame other OS for that is sheer ridiculous, as Live CDs were especially
invented for users to try out things without touching windows.Linux respects
other OS, a MSFT OS wont respect others, that's why WIndows ever since
created wipes out the bootsector of other OS without asking.

I personally recommend Novell's Suse Linux DesktopSolution, as recommended
by Microsoft

Olaf

 

[Andy]

That is why I am confused as to what my problem is. I was halfway through the
installation of Ubuntu from the Live CD when I cancelled it. I assume that
cancelling the installation would roll back any changes made. I then shut the
laptop down, and pressed the power button to turn it on again.

The problem that I have is that I am no longer able to boot Windows, either
from my HD or my Vista CD - the screen just goes blank after loading, and no
login screen is shown.

 

[Malke]

That is why I am confused as to what my problem is. I was halfway through
the installation of Ubuntu from the Live CD when I cancelled it. I assume
that cancelling the installation would roll back any changes made. I then
shut the laptop down, and pressed the power button to turn it on again.

The problem that I have is that I am no longer able to boot Windows,
either from my HD or my Vista CD - the screen just goes blank after
loading, and no login screen is shown.

This is quite a different story than the one in your first post. In your
first post you said:

"I recently tried out Ubuntu 6.06 on my Vista laptop. I am pretty sure that
it wasn't installed, and it was only the Live CD."

Now you say:

"I was halfway through the installation of Ubuntu from the Live CD when I
cancelled it. I assume that cancelling the installation would roll back any
changes made."

So you *did* start to install Ubuntu, you weren't just running it from a
Live CD, and I can't imagine why you thought canceling an operating system
installation partway through would roll it back. That is not normally how
things work.

At this point you should return the computer to factory condition by
following whatever procedures your laptop mftr. has in place. This can be
accomplished by doing a keypress/key combination at machine startup
(assuming you didn't destroy the restore partition; an assumption that I
won't make based on your posts) or by using physical restore disks. Since
you mention pressing F12 (possibly the keypress to restore to factory
condition) and nothing happening, you probably did destroy the restore
partition.

If you did in fact destroy the restore partition and neglected to first
create restore disks before you started playing around with Ubuntu, then
you will need to contact the laptop mftr. to get the disks. This is usually
not a very expensive thing to do. If you are uncertain about how to do any
of these things, contact the laptop mftr.'s tech support for guidance.

Malke