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http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/e…1e85811033.mspx
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To restore using a Windows installation discUse this method if your computer came with a Windows installation disc.
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Insert the installation disc, and then restart your computer by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking the arrow next to the Lock button Picture of the Lock button, and then clicking Restart.
If your computer is not configured to start from a CD or DVD, see Start Windows from a CD or DVD for instructions about how to do this.
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Press any key when prompted to do so.
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Choose your language settings, and then click Next.
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Click Repair your computer.
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Select the operating system you want to repair, and then click Next.
NoteIf you are restoring a 64-bit system using a 32-bit Complete PC backup or a 32-bit system using a 64-bit Complete PC backup and have more than one operating system installed, you should not select an operating system. If an operating system is selected by default, clear the selection by clicking a blank area of the window, and then click Next.
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On the System Recovery Options menu, click Windows Complete PC Restore, and then follow the instructions.
NoteInsert the last CD or DVD of the backup set when prompted to do so.
O Rly? makes it sound like you can restore one using the other version’s discs. let me give you a hint: you can’t. So now i has to get a working installation up to do this…
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Oh yes, and by the way there are pictures. Just I don’t want to fuss with them on my linux computer tonight… it’s frackin 5:24am. i’ll upload them tomorrow so you can see the lovely error messages.
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NoteIf you are restoring a 64-bit system using a 32-bit Complete PC backup or a 32-bit system using a 64-bit Complete PC backup and have more than one operating system installed, you should not select an operating system. If an operating system is selected by default, clear the selection by clicking a blank area of the window, and then click Next.If you unclick the OS to restore it should install a fresh copy SEPERATE from the original install you had. Vista CANNOT be upgraded to 64-bit or downgraded to 32-bit, what you installed is what you’ve got.
The complete restore that it is talking about is similar to the WinXP System Restore and it uses a similar (but more inclusive) type of restore points.
mmm, yeah. I was hoping it would restore the existing one. anyway, the drama in this whole computer thing has (hopefully) hit a turning point. During all this I made a backup. My memory didn’t take note that the backup was of a 100% clean installation, as in none of my backed up data. So this whole weekend I was trying to crack into some backup archives I had specifically to recover said data, but yet I still don’t have it. there’s a tool on the ultimate boot cd that claims to recover partitions even if they have been deleted and/or formatted, i’m running it to see if I can hit this partition I made for the backup earlier, now that I can boot my system, so that I at least don’t lose my data. If I’m successful, first thing I’m doing is then backing up all of that to optical media.
btw, my computer’s windows issues have angered me. I’ll prolly look soon into seeing how much it’ll sell for, and if it’s enough then sell it to go for a newegg barebones build, or i might just convert it to linux for good…
There are several tools on Hiren’s that work really well for recovering files after a format. You might be able to recover the entire partition but if you’ve formatted and then installed again you’ll be lucky to get much of anything as it writes over the non-deleted data.
There’s nothing wrong with Windows. Keep in mind that it was working before you started tinkering with it. Linux is just as vulnerable to dual-boot screwups as Windows.
well, windows xp and linux play very nice together, and they all do just fine separately… a couple of times I have tossed Vista into the mix and had it work, but it’s very possessive…
perhaps true, but you can also opt with grub, at least, to install it to the first sector of your linux partition and it’ll never touch the MBR.
i’m still going to allocate some of the blame to the mix of this being the first time i’ve actually made an xp account “private” and trying to turn around and read that stuff back off with vista, since that was the new condition this time (out of dozens of times) with me working on a triple boot setup, and then some of the blame for me being a dumbass and not backing up to optical media as soon as my computer hit the fan, and a bit of it on my habit of selecting the non-quick format when making install partitions with windows (came into play later on when the windows xp cd failed to even boot after i hit the reset button while creating a new partition, not sure entirely why that screwed stuff over…)
in any case, the data i stored on a backup partition is gone to any software tool, to find that you’d have to read it with some fancy schmancy hardware. nothing but straight zeros. So I’m giving up on getting that back, and clean installing xp and linux and vista to try again to see if they can peacefully coexist…
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