fr0st m0nkey Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 In a frenzy to use Leopard on my PC, I didn't thoroughly read throught the bootloader instructions. I have vista as my primary OS, and I selected drive 0 and then hit partition 1, which was my vista partition. I said yes I'm sure, blah blah blah, now I can't get back into Windows! I popped in the windows disc but it didn't find any windows OS installs. It let me continue though, and hit I repair but it just sat for a long time and then said it can't help and I should report it to microsoft. I tried hitting system restore, but it didn't come up with any restore points even though I do have some. What can I do to get back into Vista? Help please! EDIT: I'm getting HFS+ partition error btw. Also, hardware is as follows: CPU: Intel C2D e6300 MOBO: ASUS P5B Deluxe GPU: VisionTek ATi HD3870 PSU: Ultra 500 watt HDD: 1x250gb 7200.10 SATA HDD RAM: 2x2gb Patriot DDR2 800 Dual Channel CASE: ASUS VENTO 3600 LCD: 37" Sceptre @ 1920x1080 AUDIO: Plantronics DSP-500 Headset Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr0st m0nkey Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 Bump. Will pay $20 for someone to find a fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skierguy Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 You did erase your Vista partition, so you will have to completely reinstall Vista, its gone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
attempts Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 hmm... maybe if you can find a win98 boot disc, or Hiren's Boot Disk, you might be able to repair the vista, as long as you haven't deleted any of the actual data on the hdd. i think what you did was make a mistake and attempt to install the darwin bootloader to the vista hdd, which is, as you said, not what you wanted to do. possible solution: in win98 bootdisk, or any disk capable of running command: "fdisk /mbr" on the desired drive (without the quotes). i hear that 'fixmbr' might work from a windows console, w/e that is... good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr0st m0nkey Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 Yeah, it's gone. :censored2: Anybody know any good recovery tools to recover an entire partition and not just files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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