Well, that's it. My Vista is officially dead.
 

I can't boot up using normal or safe mode anymore, and Acer was too cheap to ship the installation DVD with the laptop. :angry:

Crap. :sad:

Dang too bad man, Good Luck Fixing it, have you try to Factory Restart it again or any Back Up you have, that Might Work. Becase if you dont have any Backup for your compture then it Fried.

what a nub

I do have backup, but unfortunately the system requires me to be booted in with an admin account to use it.
:angry:

No you.

Take it to a computer shop, pay a fortune for them to fix it and add crap Norton while they're at it.

Naah, I just got off the phone with my dad, and he'll try to install Windows 2000 on it. Because Vista has a different booting pattern from other operating systems, I can play with it there 'till either I fix it, or it goes FUBAR on me.

Now Now Be Nice

He was being nice. :cheeky:

Lawl sucks.

Yeah I got Admin privaleges and the system restore discs with my laptop :3

<33 Toshiba

XD...i got dell inspiron 1525

lol it's runnin good and ALOT ALOT ALOT of CD's came...

i mean..Media Direct Reinstallion and Rexio and DVD and idk







XD!!! and Dyn BE NICE!

I strongly suggest you make a bootable backup now for when the storm hits (I'm guessing Dell never sent you the OS installation CD/DVD either).

Dyna is calling Vista a nub. That's what IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII thought anyway <3

well u wood think that, noe wudnt U?

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Don't hijack this thread.

no U

Oh you said it :cheeky:

Anyone that crashes their OS (regardless of which) is nub =)

oh.


BELAAAAAA IS A NUBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

Usually they would have placed a recovery partition on your hard drive. It's essentially the backup of the shipped OS. See if you got it. =]

All I did was uninstall Crysis and restarted the comp.

Oh.


what a nub

Being the tech geek around here you could try to help me out instead of making pointless comments.

That's the thing: I can't access my hard drive! I can't boot, and I don't have the repair DVD!

That's a bit harsh considering I was joking and that this is mountain of spam :/

And it sounded like you already had the solution with your dad's idea of installing 2000.

Well, you calling me nub over and over again was beginning to sound harsh too. :/

As for 2k solution, I'm not really sure about it since I have a dual core processor, and I'm worried that it might not really be compatible. Well better wait an' see.

I assure you I intended it in a joking manner, but sorry since it offended you.

The 2000 should work with the dual core, since dual cores are backward compatible. It'll just use 1 core if anything.

Kk, I say we're even now. :tongue:

Only 1 core you say? I guess then I'd better get Vista fixed, or save up for XP.

Actually, I think service pack 4 of 2000 has integrated dual core compliancy.

This has a few answers, http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.c...1273347&page=1

It'll suffer a little in performance, particularly with heavy duty tasking but with small tasks it'll be mostly fine. XP's pretty good if you can live without Vista's shininess.

Do you plan on formatting or are you trying to recover your old Vista?

Vista is just fail from the start

Vista + HP = uber fail
HP decided to install a 32bit Vista OS on a 64bit computer and expects me to pay an additional amount to upgrade to a 64bit OS
:hulksmash:
that is the family computer

I <3 my Windows XP
Dell is bleeeeeeeh though
want a Lenova~

I have an HP Vista 64-bit and it's worked perfectly fine. n.n

It's a little annoying to have to approve an application everytime I want to launch it but that's probably because I haven't figured out how to get rid of it yet... >.<

Haha... you can't anymore, they've completely locked out the ability to stop the UAC.

My Vista is 32x, and I was able to disable UAC via Control Panel.

I'll probably reformat the whole thing, there was little important data on it, and I've got my backups of that.

As for the info in the link, looks like I'll still need that XP if I wanna get the max out of my system.

But here's the part I don't understand.

I used to have the prompt (the little shield) on my iTunes icon. But I did something.. and now it's gone... and I can't duplicate it for anything else... =.=

ya I tried this on my mate's system ages ago:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2...20/763275.aspx

Didn't work D:. Dunno what bit his system was though - just assumed all vista's had it disabled since SP1 or something (can't confirm). Might work for you o:

Guess whos back... with Vista.

Turned out that those backups I made were actually factory setting backups, which I couldn't boot from because something called "quiet boot" was enabled in the BIOS and was supressing the whole thing (-1 for Microsoft). Basically I got my comp back the same way it came to me in the mail. Can't wait to see how long this one lasts without errors.

my stupid profile at work would crash once every 2-3 months and it takes the IT people half a day to fix...

vista sux when they fall apart... (and it falls apart pretty often)