Repair xp from vista

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Recent Post Loading Hi Raymond, Would you please help me in the following matter! I downloaded an iso file with vista, but the only option I got through Acer Recovery is to install Vista from scratch.

I do not want to lose all my files!!! What should I do? I lost many nights trying to fix it! Please, please help! Any suggestions….. Paul 2 years ago. HAL Author 2 years ago. Frank 3 years ago. Tim 5 years ago. Mark Kindred 6 years ago. Michael 6 years ago. Joe 7 years ago. Corina 7 years ago. I think once Vista is gone, along with it's bootloader files, the XP cd should see the XP installation.

Sidenote FYI Removed the Vista installation folders and boot. While playing with Partition Magic a while back I inadvertantly wiped formatted the contents of the hard disk 1 C: partition. Hard disk 2 installation being separate has it's own boot. I am again using hard disk 1 as the primary boot disk Vista bootloader is gone resided on C: with 98 installation and XP has since written a few system files to C: to keep my boot.

Hi Dave. OK - I took a deep breathe and tried brute force Killbox to delete bootmgr from C:, but it failed to delete on reboot. Anything stronger that you can suggest? Run the program and place the drive with the Vista bootloader problem in both the Source and the Target selection window. Then click the "Cool Tools" tab and then click the "Make bootable" button. Tag all three of those boxes and click the Start button. It's anti-climactic and you won't know if it worked until you check by using your previous criteria.

I think this will be a safe procedure so long as you make certain you have the right drive selected in the two fields. If it hoses the drive, I know you have adequate images for deployment and restoration so I'm not all that concerned about igniting any international conflict. As an alternative to sd2's suggestion, and another suggestion for removing the bootmgr And I would take the safe route of creating a new folder, then moving those files rather than deleting.

Nothing's simple with these one-eyed monsters. Was somewhat surprised that I was able to do so. Install CD still did not recognise a Windows installation. Interesting side effect though would not have been interesting without backup - the IDE drive was completely empty - all partitions and data - gone.

Problem with the partition table I guess though I made no changes to that drive in mbrworks - that I know of. Final thought - fixboot.