change a crupted vista os back to xp

jefro April 12, 2010 at 12:53:35

You would need some media. It may be that you have to make disks or buy them or there is a restore partition. Playing to the angels Les Paul (1915-2009)

mavis007 April 12, 2010 at 13:37:21

... if it exists: [press]the power button to start the HP [press] and hold the <F11> key to launch the HP Recovery Manager from the recovery partition . ... Posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/... Grrrr... ...im

I want to thank everyone for all the ideas some of which i fave already tried ie. boot into recovery part. Im down loading the free registry scan and an vista recovery disk to see if that will work. I will post my findings soon!!!!!

mavis007 April 12, 2010 at 15:19:51

... as you mentioned "...some kind of nasty virus which has now destroyed the os..." ... perhaps if you virus scanned the pc and removed the infection and if you have the folder "Windows.OLD" as you "upgraded to vista" (if XP was already installed and you upgraded). ... There is a method to "uninstall" Vista! .... click here plus there are some screenshots to maximize for easy follow how-to's. . ... Posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/... Grrrr... ...im

thank s to everyone for there ideas my final fix was to install Windows 7 and that seem to be working so far once again thank you all for your help