Imhotep_Shakur
Member
Hey guys,
Yesterday I tried installing XP home on my laptop which already has Vista premium installed.
I have two partitions - one is C: which contains Vista and the other D: which is where I installed XP Home.
Everything went fine during install - XP loaded up and booted. I then used the Vista recovery console to restore Vista's MBR.
However upon doing this Vista still would not boot. I then edited the Boot.ini, still no luck. So, looking around this site I found a few guides on how to restore Vista and boot properly using commands in CMD.
This however did not work and I receive an error stating that a file within the "System 32" folder is missing named "Hal.dll".
I then used Linux live cd to remove XP Home and tried the steps above again but I still receive the same message.
I am now stuck - no XP, Corrupted Vista installation and my only hope now is Ubuntu.
Is there any way I can compltly restore Vista?
Yesterday I tried installing XP home on my laptop which already has Vista premium installed.
I have two partitions - one is C: which contains Vista and the other D: which is where I installed XP Home.
Everything went fine during install - XP loaded up and booted. I then used the Vista recovery console to restore Vista's MBR.
However upon doing this Vista still would not boot. I then edited the Boot.ini, still no luck. So, looking around this site I found a few guides on how to restore Vista and boot properly using commands in CMD.
This however did not work and I receive an error stating that a file within the "System 32" folder is missing named "Hal.dll".
I then used Linux live cd to remove XP Home and tried the steps above again but I still receive the same message.
I am now stuck - no XP, Corrupted Vista installation and my only hope now is Ubuntu.
Is there any way I can compltly restore Vista?