Ok, I had a problem couple of days back with Vista, it started acting really slow as it does some times, so I rebooted (as it fixed the problem in the past), however now whenever it tries to boot I just get a BSoD, it goes too fast to read but I think the first part of the error is 0x000000CD, I can't be certain because I can't get into safe mode anymore, more on that later.
So, with these problems I thought nevermind, I have XP I'll use that until I build my new PC and use W7, all was going well until I realised that all my DVDs crashed XP, so I decided to try and recover Vista to the point where I could at least watch a movie in peace. Tried safemode, which worked, I went through system services at boot, and disabled most everything to see if it helped, still didn't boot. After this I decided I'd try and use the recovery menu for Vista, only issue is it's some poor PC World crap, when I select recovery it takes 5 seconds and says it's repaired my boot manager, fair enough it's quite possibly what was wrong but I did worry I'd lose GRUB and my ability to load Ubuntu.
I restart my PC and I'm face with GRUB, phew, however when I try and select Vista no change... damn, by this point I'm a bit miffed so I tried to boot into XP to do something other than fix Vista... and now XP has decided it wants to be Vista, I get the Vista loading screen and the BSoD again...
Booted up after that, went into GRUB, checked the path for XP and changed it, now it says that BOOTMGR is not to be found. So I use my XP disc (thankfully a real one, not some crappy OEM version) and enter the repair console, use fixMBR, it says its fixed, shut down restart and now I'm faced with... Vista, WTF? Best part is I can't even access the safe mode boot screens so I just got an endless Vista loading cycle...
So, after having resigned to defeat I decided to check my Vista disc for a repair installation... nope its only option is to destroy the entire HDD and reinstall as was, which means I lose everything that's not backed up
As a final resort I pulled out my own OS that I've been making, and with a bit of handy playing around got the boot loader to load Linux from my HDD, yay for me...
Now, I have no idea where to go from here, I want XP back with all my programs as they were as I spent a lot of time trying to get them to how I like, if I could get Vista back then it'd be nice for my movies, but I can live without them for a couple of months... I'm off to correct GRUB again, hopefully I'll get somewhere but I doubt it, if anyone has any advice then please let me know...
Oh, and while I think about it, I've been able to force XP and Vista to mount in Ubuntu, so I can access my Windows files from here... incase that makes any difference to anyone.
So, with these problems I thought nevermind, I have XP I'll use that until I build my new PC and use W7, all was going well until I realised that all my DVDs crashed XP, so I decided to try and recover Vista to the point where I could at least watch a movie in peace. Tried safemode, which worked, I went through system services at boot, and disabled most everything to see if it helped, still didn't boot. After this I decided I'd try and use the recovery menu for Vista, only issue is it's some poor PC World crap, when I select recovery it takes 5 seconds and says it's repaired my boot manager, fair enough it's quite possibly what was wrong but I did worry I'd lose GRUB and my ability to load Ubuntu.
I restart my PC and I'm face with GRUB, phew, however when I try and select Vista no change... damn, by this point I'm a bit miffed so I tried to boot into XP to do something other than fix Vista... and now XP has decided it wants to be Vista, I get the Vista loading screen and the BSoD again...
Booted up after that, went into GRUB, checked the path for XP and changed it, now it says that BOOTMGR is not to be found. So I use my XP disc (thankfully a real one, not some crappy OEM version) and enter the repair console, use fixMBR, it says its fixed, shut down restart and now I'm faced with... Vista, WTF? Best part is I can't even access the safe mode boot screens so I just got an endless Vista loading cycle...
So, after having resigned to defeat I decided to check my Vista disc for a repair installation... nope its only option is to destroy the entire HDD and reinstall as was, which means I lose everything that's not backed up
As a final resort I pulled out my own OS that I've been making, and with a bit of handy playing around got the boot loader to load Linux from my HDD, yay for me...
Now, I have no idea where to go from here, I want XP back with all my programs as they were as I spent a lot of time trying to get them to how I like, if I could get Vista back then it'd be nice for my movies, but I can live without them for a couple of months... I'm off to correct GRUB again, hopefully I'll get somewhere but I doubt it, if anyone has any advice then please let me know...
Oh, and while I think about it, I've been able to force XP and Vista to mount in Ubuntu, so I can access my Windows files from here... incase that makes any difference to anyone.