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PC issue Help!!
« on: 09 April 2007, 22:28:53 »
i'm in the process of upgrading the pc from XP to vista.

Run the discs no problem, however when i boot up it will not boot into vista, all i get is a black screen, i can access the boot menu and the bios.

i am hacked off as i risk losing a lot of info,  set a system resore point before i did all of this, all i want to do now is to be able to boot it up in safe mode and restore the point and so roll back to XP.....

any ideas on how i do this, i have tried holding down F6 but nothing happens apart from a load of beeeeeeeps
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Re: PC issue Help!!
« Reply #1 on: 09 April 2007, 22:30:08 »
... I believe it's F8...

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Re: PC issue Help!!
« Reply #2 on: 09 April 2007, 22:34:22 »
cheers mate........

this bloody Vista is a nightmare, may as well chuck it in the bin and get a Mac
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Re: PC issue Help!!
« Reply #3 on: 09 April 2007, 22:39:15 »
I installed Vista on 3 PCs over the last few weeks, they were all bog-standard HPs (i.e. no third-party bits installed in them) albeit different models, and had no problems, I suspect that the problems arise when you mix parts from different vendors e.g. SATA controller etc....



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Re: PC issue Help!!
« Reply #4 on: 09 April 2007, 22:41:21 »
didnt back up important info before upgrade..?

is vista expensive? my computer is less than a year old on XP and i considered a vista upgrade when it was released, but not sure what difference it would make!
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Re: PC issue Help!!
« Reply #5 on: 09 April 2007, 22:45:21 »
Mine is a factory built unit, aside from the wireless card has never been messed with.

it was running XP SP2 before, according to the specs it could run vista with no issues as well.

the install went smoothly enough, the first boot up it came up with the all the profiles on the PC and then crashed, i can access safe mode, all i get now is a load os script like this

multi(0)disc(0)rdisc(0)partition(1)\windows\system32\DRIVERS\**********

** = filemnames

it scrolls about 50/60 of these, comes to a rest and the does nothing.

is there anyway i can restore it back to XP?
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Re: PC issue Help!!
« Reply #6 on: 09 April 2007, 22:50:09 »
And that is why you never, ever, ever upgrade an OS. You always burn and build.

And you never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever do it without backups.

Not worth fixing, reinstall from scratch.
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Re: PC issue Help!!
« Reply #7 on: 09 April 2007, 22:52:36 »
Presumably you have just bought it? Ring MS for help.

If it is an OEM copy (unlikely unless very new PC), contact vendor.

If its an illegal copy, well.....
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« Reply #8 on: 09 April 2007, 22:54:18 »
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And that is why you never, ever, ever upgrade an OS. You always burn and build.

And you never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever do it without backups.

Not worth fixing, reinstall from scratch.

no it is worth it.......you see all my years books and figures for the business are on that hard drive, not to mention all my music..........

was it dear, no i bought it from Ebuyer.com

illegal.......experiece has taught me nothing comes for free

 
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« Reply #9 on: 09 April 2007, 23:01:13 »
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And that is why you never, ever, ever upgrade an OS. You always burn and build.

And you never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever do it without backups.

Not worth fixing, reinstall from scratch.

no it is worth it.......you see all my years books and figures for the business are on that hard drive, not to mention all my music..........

was it dear, no i bought it from Ebuyer.com

illegal.......experiece has taught me nothing comes for free

 
Was it an OEM copy or retail?

Sorry, not seen enough problems with Vista yet to be able to sort out.

If its not retail, usual easy recovery method is to install the OS on another drive, and copy the data off that way.

As said earlier, if it is retail, ring MS...



Why on earth did you attempt an upgrade, and why do it without a backup?  Thats brave.
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Re: PC issue Help!!
« Reply #10 on: 09 April 2007, 23:08:25 »
its a retail copy, so off to MS i suppose.....

why upgrade? i have just bought a laptop for business, looking at some of the features Vista offer if all the PCs on the network are vista it seemed like a good idea at the time......

as for the back up.....we live and learn, i thought a restore point would be good enough, having bought gen kit you dont really expect this to happen......however i will know for the next time

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« Reply #11 on: 09 April 2007, 23:10:56 »
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its a retail copy, so off to MS i suppose.....

why upgrade? i have just bought a laptop for business, looking at some of the features Vista offer if all the PCs on the network are vista it seemed like a good idea at the time......

as for the back up.....we live and learn, i thought a restore point would be good enough, having bought gen kit you dont really expect this to happen......however i will know for the next time

Not why upgrade to Vista (thats a seperate debate ;)), but why do 'upgrade' option. Never upgrade an OS, its a too fundamental change. Also format and reinstall, thats what I meant.

A restore point will never be good enough, thats not what system restore is about.  System restore does not back up data.

Live and learn though.
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Re: PC issue Help!!
« Reply #12 on: 09 April 2007, 23:15:41 »
Do you have a 2nd HDD to install an OS onto to copy off data?
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Re: PC issue Help!!
« Reply #13 on: 09 April 2007, 23:16:39 »
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Never upgrade an OS, its a too fundamental change. Also format and reinstall....


Indeed! Always a fresh install... preferably on another hard drive (a but tricky with laptops though, but not impossible)




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« Reply #14 on: 09 April 2007, 23:17:48 »
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Do you have a 2nd HDD to install an OS onto to copy off data?


It's a laptop... he'll need one of the 2.5"-3.5" adapters or a USB ghost/clone kits...  :(

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