After I installed Vista as a second operating system I can’t boot from the recovery disk, after loading the RAM disk image the notebook restarts. When I run it from XP my notebook (it’s a Satellite Pro l-100 p431T) can read it.
I tried to format the Vista partition but after that the notebook showed the Vista boot manager every time I started it, so I installed Vista again… Does this problem disappear if I can remove Vista 100 percent and if yes how can I do so?
If I understand right you want to get rid of the Vista boot manager so you can reinstall XP and have just one OS on the hard drive, correct?
You can try erasing the hard drive with Active@ Kill Disk utility, download an image and burn it on a CD. Boot the laptop from this CD and run Active@ Kill Disk. This utility actually erases everything from the hard drive sector by sector. Do not erase the entire hard drive because it might be very time consuming. Run this utility for 2-3 minutes so it goes just through the beginning of the hard drive where the boot manager is written.
NOTE: after running this utility you will not be able boot the laptop into XP or Vista, you’ll have to reinstall XP (or Vista) from scratch but it should take care of the boot manager.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Hello, I have a sony vaio laptop and I believe that when I sent it to repair, the tech openned up and broke the ribbon that connects the touchpad mouse to the motherboard. Is there a way to recycle that little gold color looking cable or will I need a new one? Thanks for any feedback.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
I currently have Windows Vista Home Premium. When I do the simplest things, the taskbar, were the start buttom is, sometimes disappears. I have heard that Windows Vista is slow, could that be the problem, and would upgrading to Windows Vista Ultimate solve the problem I am currently experiencing.