Nightmare vista uninstall

[Kamal]

So I finally got sick of how slow my PC was working thanks to Vista and decided to roll back to XP, but for the LIFE of me I cant get XP setup to load when I reboot. I tried XP / Windows 2003 / Windows XP MCE, none of the setups will load when the machine boots. I only get the "Press any key to boot from cd" option if the Vista OS CD is in the DVD ROM. Everything else fails.

Any clues ?

[srbbnd]

Re: Nightmare vista uninstall

Uh ohhhhh...I wouldn't upset Vista. Vista is God. It has become jealous it has...I have had Windows Vista Home and havn't really noticed much of a difference other then it messing up some of my games and more security.

[apollo_1444]

Re: Nightmare vista uninstall

weird, vista works awesome with me! what kind of hardware specs u have?

did you installed a torrent version of vista? or you actually bought the product?... in any case some hacks and cracks can cause stabilty issues

-try going to the bios and change the boot preference to boot from cd not from DVD if that doesn't work then...

why dont you check for a solution here...

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showforum=194

this geeks KNOW EVERYTHING seriously

[srbbnd]

Re: Nightmare vista uninstall

Hey thanks for that, I like Vista more now by the minute. All I had to do was run my games as a administrator and I figured out how to view my windows in 3d. I only have a gig of memory. Probably need to get another one.

[apollo_1444]

Re: Nightmare vista uninstall

Hey thanks for that, I like Vista more now by the minute. All I had to do was run my games as a administrator and I figured out how to view my windows in 3d. I only have a gig of memory. Probably need to get another one.

i don't know if the neowin forums helped but ati and nvidia are releasing new drivers this week for vista so be ready. on a side not i disabled user account control.. its the most annoying feature EVER

[Simon Preston]

Re: Nightmare vista uninstall

I wouldn't bother with a roll back. Just reformat the fucker and put XP back on.

[Kamal]

Re: Nightmare vista uninstall

Thats what I am trying but it only seems to give me the option to boot from cd when the Vista DVD is in the damn player.....

[feather]

Re: Nightmare vista uninstall

So what happens if you tried to boot up with a WinXP install CD?

[Kamal]

Re: Nightmare vista uninstall

Nothing, it skips right past the DVD and starts loading vista. But if I insert the Vista DVD and hit reset, it'll reboot but this time I get the "Press any key to boot from CD" option

[unkownartist]

Re: Nightmare vista uninstall

use the fdisk command ( or fdisc maybe, i never get the spelling right lol )

edit: oh something else, if when u put the xp disk in and it says invalid system disc then open the drive and close the drive and it should boot up the xp disc

[Kamal]

Re: Nightmare vista uninstall

it doesnt read ANY drive on boot up other than the Vista Disk. I'm afraid I'm gonna have to create a boot up floppy and fdisk the drive out. But I cant understand how/why even after setting the boot sequence to load from the DVD Rom, why would it ignore the others Operating Systems and only give the boot option for Vista. I mean even if Vista has changed the BOOTLDR, is that a setting in the BIOS ?

[unkownartist]

Re: Nightmare vista uninstall

havnt a clue, why dont u just remove the hd from that comp stick it in one of ur others and format it using that ?

[Kamal]

Re: Nightmare vista uninstall

I'm gonna try and create a boot diskette and try with that.

[unkownartist]

Re: Nightmare vista uninstall

that should work, bit screwed if ur like me and dont have floppy disc anymore lol

thank god for old 98 disks

[KinKyJ]

Re: Nightmare vista uninstall

Kamal, ever heard of a thingie called EBCD (Emergency Boot CD)? Chech it out, has always worked like a charm for me: http://ebcd.pcministry.com/