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need help! recovery to windows vista
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:32 pm
by coldfire
I downgraded windows vista to windows xp after I made the recovery disks (1CD + 1DVD). Today I tried to get back to the vista:
1. boot from the first CD.
2. [on screen] loading files
3. [on screen] vista progress bar flashing
4. [on screen] Restore and Recovery Splash image
5. [on screen] Blank, cursor blinking
6. all of sudden, reboot. then everything starts from 1
Anyone experienced the same problem and possibly had a solution for that? is there anyway to bypass the first boot disk and perform recovery from the 2nd DVD disk?
Thanks!
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:04 pm
by Trekk69
I have recovered Vista many times but only from an external HDD and have had no problems.
My guess would be to try to let that 'cycle' run a few times and see if it eventually asks for the DVD, or maybe try starting with the DVD first?
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:20 pm
by carbon_unit
It sounds like your Rescue and Recovery boot cd is bad. Maybe someone can send you one.
Also I think you are supposed to have one cd and two dvd's.
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:48 pm
by coldfire
the problem is, it seems to be a infinite loop ...
and I tried DVD, it is not bootable.
So maybe just because the CD is bad.
Before I downgraded to XP, I almost skip creating the rescue media, thinking I would never return to vista again ... I kind of remember I did everything right, but who knows what happened at that time. so "Never say never again" ...
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:52 pm
by carbon_unit
What Thinkpad do you have?
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:06 pm
by coldfire
x61 tablet (7764CTO)
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:44 pm
by smvp6459
Did you set the harddrive to compatibility mode in the BIOS?
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:49 pm
by coldfire
I guess I found the problem: the boot CD is bad.
now I am trying to repair the CD
Thanks to all
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:57 pm
by coldfire
Now I am in the process of recovering vista business.
The vista R&R disc set contains two disk: 1 Boot CD and 1 DVD.
Boot CD is around 230MB and DVD is around 4GB. in my case, part of the boot CD goes bad, but fortunately the corrupted files is in Python 2.4 directory, so I just recovered the files and made another Boot CD.
The tricky thing is that the R&R software asked me to put the 1st disc ("Operating System") in the DVD Drive, when I put in the only DVD I have, it told me that this is not the right disc, so I just skipped that and it started to process the supposed 2nd disc (the DVD, "Application and Data"). After that everything just worked.
Now my laptop shows:
"Please wait, Preload Customizations in progress", I suppose this is a good sign.
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:24 pm
by carbon_unit
It sounds like you are on the right track. Good Luck.