Stewie

HI! Have you got the original cd of Windows xp? Or can you borrow it somewhere? Insert it at start up and press f12 (Boot screen) then select boot from cd you should be able to repair windows. Try that, that might help. Stewie

factory reset Hi, Vista should have the option to do a factory reset either in the control panel or in the folder where it is installed. You can also try to do the factory resetting using the command prompt as someone has already advised you. A factory reset will not uninstall Vista but may uninstall all you programs or software updates for any added hardware and you just would have to reinstall them. Make a backup of all your personal files too, as they may get deletes too. good luck, stewie

Hi.I'm new to these kind of sites and don't know really where my post should go.I had Windows Vista installed a short while ago. But then I wanted to Install Windows 7 as I bought it for cheap on ebay. But as there was only one partition I tried to re seize it and create another one with partition magic,so I wouldn't loose all my files when installing Windows 7. After reboot I was prompted to boot from hard drive or repair windows Vista. I couldn't boot from hard drive as nothing happened when I did. Neither could I repair as I didn't have any backups. Since nothing worked I got one of those repair cds off ebay(yeah I found out they're free on the web but that was after buying one...). This cd had a mini windows xp on it with all sorts of system tools. At least now I could save all my data to an external media. I was advised to format my hard drive and reinstall windows. I do not have a windows vista cd as vista came pre installed with my computer when i bought it. I started Installation from an old Windows xp cd I have. Windows xp loads all the files and copy them to my hard drive and at 51 minutes remaining just restart and show me the NTLDR is missing message. If I started the setup from the mini windows xp version it would copy all the files for setup and then terminate (Windows 7 wouldn't even attempt to start installing). Because nothing worked I installed linux mint a couple of days ago but when i attempt Windows XP setup from there it gives me the error message : NO VALID SYSTEM PARTITIONS FOUND.SETUP IS UNABLE TO CONTINUE. I have reformatted the partition I destined for windows with NTFS and FAT32 and set it as "Boot" "active", nothing works. Linux is great but I can't get any of my games or programs to work even though I have wine and play on Linux installed. please help someone I'm going crazy thanks for reading and answering... Stewie ps I have a dell inspiron 530 with 2 gig of RAM... And can someone please tell me why setup terminates after copying the files???