I messed my comp up really badly

latinomodder · Post by **latinomodder** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:06 pm

Well a summay...

I got my laptop with xp then one day I decided to install vista rc1. well it installed smoothly I got the new vista boot manager everything worked great(I had xp on one partiton and vista on the other). Then today I wanted to install vista Home Premium sooo I installed over my old vista partition I booted into vista everything worked perfectly. Now I turn vista off go into xp and all I get is a black scren. I did everything I could to fix it, unistalled vistas boot manager, got my xp boot disk and used recovery console's fixboot. Nothing has worked please help.

gh0570fchurch · Post by **gh0570fchurch** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:07 pm

You could reformat...

latinomodder · Post by **latinomodder** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:08 pm

uhm....no

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:11 pm

why not? just back up all your data.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:13 pm

Good rule of thumb: Don't do upgrade installs. It's better to backup critical data, then reformat and go from scratch.

latinomodder · Post by **latinomodder** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:14 pm

I didnt do an upgrade install, I erased a partition conteining rc1 and installed RTM

Well you only learn by making mistakes, Cause I thought I knew how to dual boot very well guess not.

Xiion · Post by **Xiion** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:23 pm

your problem is that you erased a partition file. that contains systtem data, and when messed with can screw up your hardrve. your best off buying a new hardrive and installing home premium on it with that.

latinomodder · Post by **latinomodder** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:27 pm

wait your telling me I killed my hard drive? Cant I just backup to an extrenal hdd do a format and reintall

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:45 pm

Xiion wrote:your problem is that you erased a partition file. that contains systtem data, and when messed with can screw up your hardrve. your best off buying a new hardrive and installing home premium on it with that.

Wow, no. If you erase a partition, you don't have to buy a new hard drive, your partition is gone, that is all. You can erase all partitions, leaving one large partition, ready to reformat onto.

@latinomodder: Yeah, back up your files onto an external, and format your drive clean, and install Home Premium. (If you didn't buy it, make sure to make a bootable DVD.)

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:47 pm

Xiion wrote:your problem is that you erased a partition file. that contains systtem data, and when messed with can screw up your hardrve. your best off buying a new hardrive and installing home premium on it with that.

You and your "Resort to the eaisiest, but most costly and dramatic solution"....

latinomodder · Post by **latinomodder** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:39 am

Thanks everyone I guess il stick with home premium, does some one know how to effectevly merge partitions and make it still be bootable?

Xiion · Post by **Xiion** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:40 am

Cuda wrote:
Xiion wrote:your problem is that you erased a partition file. that contains system data, and when messed with can screw up your hardrive. your best off buying a new hardrive and installing home premium on it with that.
You and your "Resort to the easiest, but most costly and dramatic solution"....

lol >.>

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:51 am

merge partitions? what do you mean, because trying to put 2 OSes on the same partition either won't happen or just won't work.

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:09 am

Just format everything so you have a RAW Hard Drive and make some partitions. Formatting isn't hard.