Yaaaaargh!!! Vista wont boot..kinda my fault

[Ivan...]

Hmm where to start...

I originally had XP installed on my first hard drive and when I got a second one I isntalled Vista on it. Now I want to format my old XP drive.

Windows Vista wouldn't let me, so I said screw you Vista, popped in my ole XP disk and proceded to delete the partition on the old drive. Now VIsta wont boot.

After some frantic searches I found out that VIsta wont boot because my old drive had the bootsector on it. Nicely enough my VIsta dvd boots but then does nothing..I can move my mouse pointer but no menus or anything...just the pretty Vista backround.



halp!

 

[The_Techie]

Linkage

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Windows Vista wouldn't let me, so I said screw you Vista, popped in my ole XP disk and proceded to delete the partition on the old drive.
I found out that VIsta wont boot because my old drive had the bootsector on it.

Haha, see you shouldn't have read all that FUD and rather trusted Vista. xD

 

[Ivan...]

Linkage

Tried that....got an error: "Element not found"

Googled, swore like a pirate, restarted and found out that my partition isn't "active"...used Diskpart..

Diskpart isn't friendly..nono.."activated" my partition..tried Bootrec again

FAIL!

Swore, restarted another 6 times, redid everything, considered re-installing XP so I could run EasyBCD..


Found this link and rewrote the frikkin Bootloader from scratch

Hah, restart and it tells me the Bootloader is corrupt or missing, press alt+ctrl+fckoff to restart



go back into repair mode and try the "autorepair" thingy. Success it repairs the corrrupt or missing Bootloader, something it couldn't do the 20 or so other times I tried it.


Those of you who've run Vista for 1 hour or whatever and decided you hate it, hate it for the wrong reasons....

 

[The_Techie]

Tried that....got an error: "Element not found"

Googled, swore like a pirate, restarted and found out that my partition isn't "active"...used Diskpart..

Diskpart isn't friendly..nono.."activated" my partition..tried Bootrec again

FAIL!

Swore, restarted another 6 times, redid everything, considered re-installing XP so I could run EasyBCD..


Found this link and rewrote the frikkin Bootloader from scratch

Hah, restart and it tells me the Bootloader is corrupt or missing, press alt+ctrl+fckoff to restart



go back into repair mode and try the "autorepair" thingy. Success it repairs the corrrupt or missing Bootloader, something it couldn't do the 20 or so other times I tried it.


Those of you who've run Vista for 1 hour or whatever and decided you hate it, hate it for the wrong reasons....

Pleasure

 

[Ivan...]

Haha, see you shouldn't have read all that FUD and rather trusted Vista. xD

at least it could have had a proper error message stating that the bootloader is on that drive ..

Though what I did was a dumb mistake, there are people out there who had valid reasons for trying to fix their bootloaders, I have no idea why it should be rocketscience...stupid microsoft.

*adds Steve Balmer to list of people I plan to kick in square in the balls*

 

[The_Techie]

at least it could have had a proper error message stating that the bootloader is on that drive ..

Though what I did was a dumb mistake, there are people out there who had valid reasons for trying to fix their bootloaders, I have no idea why it should be rocketscience...stupid microsoft.

*adds Steve Balmer to list of people I plan to kick in square in the balls*

Took you a while

 

[Ivan...]

Level Up!

Pleasure

Thanks Beanie, you got me on the right path....pity it was so long and treacherous.

Today I gained 2000 experience points.

 

[The_Techie]

Thanks Beanie, you got me on the right path....pity it was so long and treacherous.

Today I gained 2000 experience points.

 

[.Froot.]

This is why some people shouldn't use computers (or at least to try do things they evidently know nothing about). Just remember next time to investigate what can happen if you do something system-atic (like removing IE7. NEVER do that, since a crapload of programs are dependant on it, even if you've upgraded from IE6 or had a clean IE7, because then you have to reinstall).

But we're all glad you got your stuff working again.

 

[The_Techie]

This is why some people shouldn't use computers (or at least to try do things they evidently know nothing about). Just remember next time to investigate what can happen if you do something system-atic (like removing IE7. NEVER do that, since a crapload of programs are dependant on it, even if you've upgraded from IE6 or had a clean IE7, because then you have to reinstall).

But we're all glad you got your stuff working again.

It's the best way to learn, though

 

[Ivan...]

If it was XP's bootloader I was trying to repair or recreate it would have taken me 2 minutes and this thread would have never been posted. Microsoft makes it seem so easy to fix it (see Beanie's link)...

But we're all glad you got your stuff working again.

Thanks

 

[.Froot.]

Yeah we all tend to go looking for the problem under the wrong stone (I've been a victim of this too once or twice). It happens even to the best of us. So be glad you made this mistake because it won't happen again....

 

[Pooky]

Did MAC work?

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Did MAC work?

I'm confused.

What does this mean?

 

[Neo_X]

I'm confused.

What does this mean?

Have anyone ever understood what Pooky meant???

 

[kronoSX]

ivan you can faf around while tk..ing.You are not a multi tasker....lol