copemech Posted February 3, 2010 Report Share Posted February 3, 2010 (edited) Long story made short, I ran a Win 7 Beta on my little Vostro 200(Vista HP) in the house. Less did I know at the time that when the Beta expired it would leave things all cocked-up and no way to go back to the Vista. Been that way for a while now and I needed to strip all the files off and do a recovery from the D: partition(no friggin restore discs)and start over from a format and factory refresh of C:, yet I cannot get it to run. The F8 boot function does not bring up the PCRestore option that is housed on D drive partician as per the manual. I may have to purchase the factory restore disc, which can be done, but thought I would at least ask for any experience out there, as it is just out of warranty and they will not help. The only other idea I have not explored is to see if the PCRestore function will activate after booting from some odd bootable disc, which the closest thing I may have on hand would be an XP disc if I can find it. Messed with till blind on Sunday, gave up. Oh, it does still function, yet has gone blackscreen on the background and written up all my harddrive space so you cannot load anything, the B#s&a%ds @Microsoft. Been that way for awhile. The little Vostro ran better on the Vista than the Win 7, not sure why, but it was a Beta. I just hate it when they do that cheap crap and do not supply restore discs. This old one in the shed came rite back to life after the drive was replaced a little over a year ago. P4 2.4 Ghz w/512 Meg of ram still runs XP sweet! The new stuff looks nice, I even broke down last year and got a decent HP laptop running the Vista for travels and such, although seldom used it seems. It does work, and has all the stuff, but I am never far away from a PC at work or home, and work relies far too much on them for my liking nowadays. Any insights appreciated, but my patience runs thin, as I will do little more experimentation because new discs should not cost much. Cheers, MC Edited February 3, 2010 by copemech Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 Cope, Been a couple days and nobody has any insights or help for ya. I think you may be SOL dude, Hate computers, love them 2 strokes really easy to understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapshot 3 Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 DELL....Specialist - Contradiction in terms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rezurect Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 (edited) Hi Cope, I would try to get a bootable version of Linux then you should be able to fire the beast up and see if you can get access to the stuff on your D Drive. I take it there is no option of rolling back your computer to vista? Will try to have a look around and see if there is any info out there on getting vista back..... Does Windows 7 run as a virtual OS or has it taken over the whole computer? Hope you get it sorted.... Iain p.s. had a quick squint on the net and it appears you will have to re-install vista after you have backed up all your files. Windows 7 is built so you have to but it and use it..... sorry bout that! Edited February 4, 2010 by rezurect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copemech Posted February 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Hi Cope,I would try to get a bootable version of Linux then you should be able to fire the beast up and see if you can get access to the stuff on your D Drive. I take it there is no option of rolling back your computer to vista? Will try to have a look around and see if there is any info out there on getting vista back..... Does Windows 7 run as a virtual OS or has it taken over the whole computer? Hope you get it sorted.... Iain p.s. had a quick squint on the net and it appears you will have to re-install vista after you have backed up all your files. Windows 7 is built so you have to but it and use it..... sorry bout that! Yea, seems some of the Beta's would create a win.old file that you could use to reinstall some critical files and go back. Not there on mine!!!!!! Screw me! I have not had a chance to mess further, and as it still does work has not been a major issue. The Linux boot option may be credible if I can just get the restore files that are on the D drive partition to kick off and do it's thing, which is a format and clean install! Cheers, MC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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