Snuff

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:52:02 -0700, Rafal K. <Rafal
K.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hello everyone.
>
>I use two systems on my PC.
>-Windows XP Professional
>-Windows Vista 32bit
>
>I wanted to instal new drivers for my motherboard on Vista.
>It's Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI on nForce4.
>I downloaded drivers from nVidia site and installed it. Then I rebooted my PC.
>But this time when I selected Windows Vista to boot - after 1second of
>loading I got a bluescreen telling me that something's wrong with my hardware
>or drivers or something and that Windows won't load.
>Safe Mode/Debug Mode/anything don't help. Also DVD with Vista which I have
>don't want to boot so I can't use any system restore option.
>
>Is there any way I can repair Windows Vista from Windows XP?
>Any idea what could go wrong and why there's an bluescreen now, everytime I
>load Win Vista?
>
>Thanks for help.
>
>---------
>Rafal K.
It doesn't sound good. When you say you can't boot from the DVD what
do you mean? Does it give you the option? Have you played around
with the BIOS? Could you borrow a USB DVD drive from someone and try
to get the bios to boot from that?

If you can get it booted, you can run the system restore utility and
go back to the stage before you installed the bad new drivers.
Repairing from XP is unlikely to work as I would guess that the
install overwrote the previous drivers and clearly, unless you can
boot vista, you are not going to be able to use a restore image or a
shadow copy...how much was on the system? Maybe if you can find
someone iwth a Vista disk, they would lend it to you so that you can
reinstall using your own key.