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Old February 5th, 2009, 06:02 PM
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Attempted to Install XP over Vista

Rather a bizarre situation where a friend wanted to install Works 9 on his version of Vista which is on an Advent Eco PC.

The disk he was given with Works on ACTUALLY HAD AN INSTALLATION OF XP PRO and was a legit printed cd with Works 9 officially printed on it.

Situation now is that it is stuck half way through installing XP on Partition 3 because it can't find some files on the CD.

There are 3 sectors - 1 is recovery for Vista - 2 is 1.5Gb with System on it - 3 is a large partition which still has remnants of the previous Vista installation, which XP is trying to install on.

In the instructions, it says to perform recovery with Vista, type the F8 key on startup, which will bring up the window with "Repair Computer"

Sadly it now only brings up the screen with Safe Mode etc

Question - how do we get back to reinstalling Vista with no DVDs - the recovery is on Partition 1

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Old February 6th, 2009, 12:55 AM
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I'm not real sure how that system works, never dealt with one. But, when you boot up, try the F1 key, if that doesn't work try the F12 key, and F10 if that doesn't work. See if one of these will get you into the Recovery menu. You should get a menu dedicated to the Recovery Options. Just have to find the right key.
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Old February 6th, 2009, 07:41 PM
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Fix was at :

http://www.techsupportforum.com/micr...ml#post1955524

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