Hi,
I'm in desperate need of help. I bought a maxdata laptop which comes with Vista basic already installed. I wanted to have XP on it too so I could play games, so without doing much research I partitioned my main drive and quickly installed XP on it. To my horror, Vista no longer boots up and there's no menu to choose so. I now know there are many ways to solve this using third part software such as easybcd and vistabootpro, however, they have all failed!
When using easybcd I just get a fatal error when trying to run it, and I've tried reinstalling it many times too. When using vistabootpro, I need to download framework etc.. but my laptop doesn't have access to the internet any more, since things have gone wrong, so when I transfer the framework and other programs needed for vistabootpro to work, it again gives an error regarding "Plug-in installer could not detect the appropriate browser installtion directory". I do not have a Vista DVD since it came pre-bundled.
Please help, I'm stuck in the worst position possible!
Thanks,
Lee.
Addendum:
Sorry about this, I solved the problem myself after loads of faffing.
I'm in desperate need of help. I bought a maxdata laptop which comes with Vista basic already installed. I wanted to have XP on it too so I could play games, so without doing much research I partitioned my main drive and quickly installed XP on it. To my horror, Vista no longer boots up and there's no menu to choose so. I now know there are many ways to solve this using third part software such as easybcd and vistabootpro, however, they have all failed!
When using easybcd I just get a fatal error when trying to run it, and I've tried reinstalling it many times too. When using vistabootpro, I need to download framework etc.. but my laptop doesn't have access to the internet any more, since things have gone wrong, so when I transfer the framework and other programs needed for vistabootpro to work, it again gives an error regarding "Plug-in installer could not detect the appropriate browser installtion directory". I do not have a Vista DVD since it came pre-bundled.
Please help, I'm stuck in the worst position possible!
Thanks,
Lee.
Addendum:
Sorry about this, I solved the problem myself after loads of faffing.
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