firstly i apologise for the long story, and am thankful if anyone can help at all. i have posted this on other forums but to no avail. i am trying to fix a friends laptop, a compaq presario cq60-218EM, which operating system is set to ubuntu. she broke vista, gave it to someone else to fix, and now is stuck on ubuntu. i have no experience using ubuntu so have no idea how to change it back to vista, so i tried using the recovery disc. i understand that this will only work if vista is still recovery partition or something of that sort? anyways i put in the dvd i made from http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/.....-download/ and it loads nicely then asks me if i wish to install or repair (install doesnt work) after clicking repair it asks me to select an os, but sadly none are there. i can click load drivers...but have no idea which ones to load. i can also click next where im then presented with startup repair, system restore, and command prompt. system repair doesnt work. apparently there is no system restore point either. now i am stumped for what to do.
i need to check that vista is still on the computer somewhere...but dont know how. if it is...i then need to restore it to being the default os and get rid of ubuntu. if not, she does have a windows vista basic key, so could i download and install it and then use that key? would that cause problems with drivers she then wont have?
i have also followed the advice in
Recovering the Vista Bootloader from the DVD - NeoSmart Technologies Wiki
but cant continue from the command "del C:\boot\bcd" as i get a response that "the device is not ready"
thanks for any help you may be able to give
Ryan
i need to check that vista is still on the computer somewhere...but dont know how. if it is...i then need to restore it to being the default os and get rid of ubuntu. if not, she does have a windows vista basic key, so could i download and install it and then use that key? would that cause problems with drivers she then wont have?
i have also followed the advice in
Recovering the Vista Bootloader from the DVD - NeoSmart Technologies Wiki
but cant continue from the command "del C:\boot\bcd" as i get a response that "the device is not ready"
thanks for any help you may be able to give
Ryan