Thread: Help from IT pro's

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

is there any way to reinstall BOOTMGR in vista?
you can rebuild the boot in XP,,
but in vista its all bcdedit stuff,,
repair doesnt work,
restore doesnt work,
a reinstall of vista will format the drive,, NOT the option I am looking for,,

will be online for another 45 mmins or so----


Peter.

Pedro, I just don't understand? Why do you put yourself through this stuff?

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

Pedro, I just don't understand? Why do you put yourself through this stuff?

Training to be a computer tech. Most folks learn by undoing the stupid mistakes that Microsoft has made them make.

Cheers
Simon

Originally Posted by abaddonxi

Training to be a computer tech. Most folks learn by undoing the stupid mistakes that Microsoft has made them make.

Cheers
Simon

You are or pedro?

If so that might explain all this pain he puts himself through. Pedro are you there?

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

You are or pedro?

If so that might explain all this pain he puts himself through. Pedro are you there?

Pedro.

Most of the blokes I know started out doing something incredibly stupid and not giving up until they fixed it or worked out how.

Of course I also know of some people who just keep making mistakes and never seem to get better at it.

I've got one mate like that, just can't help himself.

Not Pedro, of course.

Cheers
Simon

Cool I didn't know that. I couldn't understand the stream of pain that he was leaching!

I haven't done this before, but what I'm planning on doing next time.

Download a linux boot cd, burn the iso to disk, boot the busted computer from the linux cd. This could take up to ten minutes to boot. The linux cd thing lets you get at the OS files on the hard drive without the computer running them.

Then you need the files you want to copy on something that can plug in, cd or usb drive. Hope that everything is recognised by linux.

Copy, copy, copy.

Reboot without the linux cd and hope that it's all working.

I was going to say it'd be easier just to plug your hard drive into another computer as a slave disk and transfer files that way, but I think your other computer might be a laptop which'd make this just a little difficult.

You could also do this to save any of the files you want saved and reinstall from scratch.

Or reinstall from the ghost disk set you made when you got the system to a point that was working nicely.

What d'ya mean you didn't make a ghost disk?

Cheers
Simon

now he comes up with answers-----
good on ya!


couldnt give two hoots about the system files,,

but 7 years of collected jokes and pics are hard to replace,, also my STEAM folder,,
25gb of downloaded games,,,

I'm not sure Mrs Pedro understands the loss involved--- oh the pain,,