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lucus · 26-09-09, 08:00 PM

hi
i brought a laptop with vista on it and i wanted xp so i created a partition and installed xp on that i had to change the sata settings in bios to ATA for xp to boot, i now want to go back to vista i have tryed changing it back to AHCI but it just attepmts to boot in xp then keeps reseting any ideas how i can get it to boot back in vista?
regards

abbs2002 · 26-09-09, 08:17 PM

run vista installer disk and repair the partition where vista is installed.

lucus · 26-09-09, 08:53 PM

is that the only way mate as i dont have a vista disk?
regards

MorriSoft · 26-09-09, 08:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lucus

is that the only way mate as i dont have a vista disk?
regards

You could try Hirens Boot CD, that has recovered a Vista Ultimate partition on a laptop in a similar setup (but linux rather than xp) - which partition recovery tool I used on that disk though, I cannot remember.

Hope you get somewhere with that anyway. Let us know how you get on

abbs2002 · 26-09-09, 09:48 PM

you seem to have an XP installer disk, boot up from the disk untill you get to the stage when you are asked to add or delete partition then you can delete the XP partion and reboot the system and see if that gets vista to boot if not re-do the SATA/ ATA setting you've changed before m8.

26-09-09, 08:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
lucus Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: TW Posts: 408 Thanks: 80 Thanked 74 Times in 65 Posts	from xp back to vista hi i brought a laptop with vista on it and i wanted xp so i created a partition and installed xp on that i had to change the sata settings in bios to ATA for xp to boot, i now want to go back to vista i have tryed changing it back to AHCI but it just attepmts to boot in xp then keeps reseting any ideas how i can get it to boot back in vista? regards

26-09-09, 08:17 PM	#2 (permalink)
abbs2002 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: London North TW Posts: 1,984 Thanks: 59 Thanked 498 Times in 448 Posts	Re: from xp back to vista run vista installer disk and repair the partition where vista is installed. __________________ If you don’t succeed at first try & try again, you’ll get there

26-09-09, 08:53 PM	#3 (permalink)
lucus Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: TW Posts: 408 Thanks: 80 Thanked 74 Times in 65 Posts	Re: from xp back to vista is that the only way mate as i dont have a vista disk? regards

26-09-09, 09:48 PM	#5 (permalink)
abbs2002 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: London North TW Posts: 1,984 Thanks: 59 Thanked 498 Times in 448 Posts	Re: from xp back to vista you seem to have an XP installer disk, boot up from the disk untill you get to the stage when you are asked to add or delete partition then you can delete the XP partion and reboot the system and see if that gets vista to boot if not re-do the SATA/ ATA setting you've changed before m8. __________________ If you don’t succeed at first try & try again, you’ll get there

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