So I finally got sick of how slow my PC was working thanks to Vista and decided to roll back to XP, but for the LIFE of me I cant get XP setup to load when I reboot. I tried XP / Windows 2003 / Windows XP MCE, none of the setups will load when the machine boots. I only get the "Press any key to boot from cd" option if the Vista OS CD is in the DVD ROM. Everything else fails.

Any clues ?

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Uh ohhhhh...I wouldn't upset Vista. Vista is God. It has become jealous it has...I have had Windows Vista Home and havn't really noticed much of a difference other then it messing up some of my games and more security.

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weird, vista works awesome with me! what kind of hardware specs u have?

did you installed a torrent version of vista? or you actually bought the product?... in any case some hacks and cracks can cause stabilty issues

-try going to the bios and change the boot preference to boot from cd not from DVD if that doesn't work then...

why dont you check for a solution here...

[URL]http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showforum=194[/URL]

this geeks KNOW EVERYTHING seriously

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Hey thanks for that, I like Vista more now by the minute. All I had to do was run my games as a administrator and I figured out how to view my windows in 3d. I only have a gig of memory. Probably need to get another one.

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[quote=srbbnd;466888]Hey thanks for that, I like Vista more now by the minute. All I had to do was run my games as a administrator and I figured out how to view my windows in 3d. I only have a gig of memory. Probably need to get another one.[/quote]

i don't know if the neowin forums helped but ati and nvidia are releasing new drivers this week for vista so be ready. 8) on a side not i disabled user account control.. its the most annoying feature EVER

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I wouldn't bother with a roll back. Just reformat the fucker and put XP back on.

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Thats what I am trying but it only seems to give me the option to boot from cd when the Vista DVD is in the damn player.....

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So what happens if you tried to boot up with a WinXP install CD?

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Nothing, it skips right past the DVD and starts loading vista. But if I insert the Vista DVD and hit reset, it'll reboot but this time I get the "Press any key to boot from CD" option

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use the fdisk command ( or fdisc maybe, i never get the spelling right lol )

edit: oh something else, if when u put the xp disk in and it says invalid system disc then open the drive and close the drive and it should boot up the xp disc

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it doesnt read ANY drive on boot up other than the Vista Disk. I'm afraid I'm gonna have to create a boot up floppy and fdisk the drive out. But I cant understand how/why even after setting the boot sequence to load from the DVD Rom, why would it ignore the others Operating Systems and only give the boot option for Vista. I mean even if Vista has changed the BOOTLDR, is that a setting in the BIOS ?

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havnt a clue, why dont u just remove the hd from that comp stick it in one of ur others and format it using that ? 8)

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I'm gonna try and create a boot diskette and try with that.

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that should work, bit screwed if ur like me and dont have floppy disc anymore lol

thank god for old 98 disks :)

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Kamal, ever heard of a thingie called EBCD (Emergency Boot CD)? Chech it out, has always worked like a charm for me: [url]http://ebcd.pcministry.com/[/url]

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I did try that, but the problem is, it wont read ANY CD / DVD during the bootup process other than the Vista installation DVD

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all your drives are belong to Vista

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Still a mystery though ... Gates doing the All Your Drive Are Belong To Us shit.

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[QUOTE=KinKyJ;467149]all your drives are belong to Vista[/QUOTE]

Damn, clicked Reply on the first page and didn't read this :what

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wow just realized my dvd burner is fried. cant believe it fucking managed to reload vista 1 last time before it died.... big mystery. luckily I had an old drive lying around, plugged it in and reloading xp. I guess mystery solved ?

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mm seems that you are the only one with that problem cuz i inserted my ol' xp cd and it worked just fine but im happy with vista anyway.

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how much ram do you have ?

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2gb ddr2

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yea thats pretty good for vista, I'm on 1 gb ddr and I dont wanna spend more on ddr so it makes sense for me to roll back

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[quote=red1;467042]havnt a clue, why dont u just remove the hd from that comp stick it in one of ur others and format it using that ? 8)[/quote]I was going to suggest this when I first read your post, Kamal. If you can't make it work, just stick in a new HDD and stick the old booter as a slave. At least you know, that'll work for ya.

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Dont have another one unfortunately, so I guess I'm just stuck with vista for now... ugh

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kamal, its horror stories like yours keep me away from vista ... at least for now

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believe it or not, I'm actually going to go out and buy Windows XP MCE cause I dont need to upgrade my hardware for it to perform flawlessly on my PC. I will only get Vista on my laptop (whenever I get it next)

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yea 1gb is not enough sometimes i'm using ie7, msn, the games for ultimate version , winamp and my music folder and i get like 900 mb of ram usage :S

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yea thats why I'm rolling back, dont want to spend anymore on this system

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[quote=apollo_1444;467780]yea 1gb is not enough sometimes i'm using ie7, msn, the games for ultimate version , winamp and my music folder and i get like 900 mb of ram usage :S[/quote]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??????????????

That's rediculous.

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[quote=Simon Preston;467816]whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??????????????

That's rediculous.[/quote] yeah i'm not kidding mate, however since vista is desinged to perform better on dual core processors the machine is fast as hell, the boot time is like 19 seconds and coming from sleep mode its like 6 seconds

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Use your XP cd to rewrite your mbr.

Forget what the command is... maybe fixboot /mbr or something like that?

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well after another frutiless effort filled weekend of trying to get XP MCE to work, I rolled back to Vista. While vista may not have compatibility with a shit load of hardware out there, I will admit that a lot of the stuff built into it not only appears to be stable, but WOW the TV Tuner card support / encoders / decoders work so well, my TV Tuner actually appears better through S-Video out rather than my actual cable plugged into my TV.

Have no choice now but to have my 360 stream live TV across the network and have my audio through the Xbox rather than bust my hump trying to make my creative sound card work with vista.

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[QUOTE=apollo_1444;467780]yea 1gb is not enough sometimes i'm using ie7, msn, the games for ultimate version , winamp and my music folder and i get like 900 mb of ram usage :S[/QUOTE]

That's really obnoxious. XP ran comfortably on what, 256? I get that we can expect an increase in RAM requirements any time there is a upgrade in an OS, but having anything south of 2 GB being too little is just absurd.

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[quote=toasty;469254]That's really obnoxious. XP ran comfortably on what, 256? I get that we can expect an increase in RAM requirements any time there is a upgrade in an OS, but having anything south of 2 GB being too little is just absurd.[/quote]

well windows vista uses a tecnology called indexing for faster search and also there is a sleep mode for the computer plus I play a lot of games on my pc. 2gb is excellent for the new OS i know it sounds lame but microsoft has been lame since 1975.

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[QUOTE=apollo_1444;469382]well windows vista uses a tecnology called indexing for faster search and also there is a sleep mode for the computer plus I play a lot of games on my pc. 2gb is excellent for the new OS i know it sounds lame but microsoft has been lame since 1975.[/QUOTE]

I guess part of it is what I see Apple doing with 256 in OS X. Vista still pales by comparison, far as I can tell...

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Vista is better then OS X by far. It pales in comparison.

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Is OS-X based on Linux architecture ? I Know both Tiger and Leopard are and no MS product could ever top that in performance + stability

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Its based on BSD.

Its been happening for years but computers are so powerful that programmers get away with sloppy coding. 900MB for just those few things is obscene in my book. I'd honestly say all those things should run on 128meg...

[QUOTE]well windows vista uses a tecnology called indexing for faster search and also there is a sleep mode for the computer[/QUOTE]

erm... XP has indexing too. As for sleep mode... that shouldn't take up much mem at all.