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Hi,
I understand once the upgrade is finished there no rolling back to Windows XP.
However, that is not the problem I have!

My upgrade did not get finished!

It went to the point where the boot menue gives the choice to roll back the
Windows XP.
At that point I chosed to move on with the Vista installation. The system
started to load some new drivers - and a few moments later it froze!

I checked the harddrive - all my files, Windows XP files (which the system
backed up during the installation.) are still there.

In a next step I used "start up repair"
I noticed the system made a backup of the boot file.

Ok, here is where I have my question:
What is the exact location where this boot file backup get saved?

The idea is - since the system did not delete any Windows XP files jet - I
want to restore my original boot file, which has the option to roll back to
Windows XP.
And well, do just that - roll roll back to XP.

Hope anyone out there can help!

Thanks.
Thomas

"Jayfan" wrote:

> In addition, once you install Windows Vista RC1, you cannot roll back to the
> previous operating system installation—you will either have to acquire and
> install the final released edition of Windows Vista or reinstall a previous
> edition of Windows. Before installing Windows Vista RC1 on any computer,
> please remember to back up all your files.
>
>
> "schillingt5" wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I tried to upgrade Windows XP to Vista.
> > However, before the upgrade completed, the system could not load some of the
> > new drivers.
> > It stopped booting and the upgrade did not finish.
> >
> > From the system recovery option I tried startup repair. It was not successful.
> >
> > I have two questions:
> > 1. When running startup repair I noticed it made backup of my original boot
> > file.
> > Can anyone tell me the location where this backup file get saved?
> >
> > (I am trying to use bcdedit /import to go back to my original boot screen
> > and from there use the option OS rollback to Windows XP.)
> >
> > 2. Or, what would be the direct command line to rollback the OS upgrade to
> > Windows XP?
> >
> > Thanks for any advice I can get!
> >
> > Thomas
> >