Unable to Recover Vista on my laptop

Hi,

I have a Compaq Presario CQ45 106AU laptop. It had Vista 32bit pre installed. I formatted the system and installed Ubuntu but when i tried to recover the system using the recovery DVD's a error pops up.
Windows encountered a problem. Unable to communicate with a hardware connected to the system.
Error code is:0xc00009e

Please help..
Thanks..

itsmepiyush said:

Hi,

I have a Compaq Presario CQ45 106AU laptop. It had Vista 32bit pre installed. I formatted the system and installed Ubuntu but when i tried to recover the system using the recovery DVD's a error pops up.
Windows encountered a problem. Unable to communicate with a hardware connected to the system.
Error code is:0xc00009e

Please help..
Thanks..

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Are you sure that error code is right? I can't find a single thing about it.

It sounds like an unsupported hardware issue. Did you add/remove any hardware while running Ubuntu?

Sorry i mistyped it. The Code is 0xc0000e9.
An unexpected I/O error has occurred.
And no I did not remove or add any hardware while running Ubuntu. Ubuntu is still running fine.

itsmepiyush said:

Sorry i mistyped it. The Code is 0xc0000e9.
An unexpected I/O error has occurred.
And no I did not remove or add any hardware while running Ubuntu. Ubuntu is still running fine.

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Alright, take a look at this thread and see if the solution posted there works for you.

(Pulling out the BIOS battery to reset & reinstall)

Thanks I will try that.. Thank you..

itsmepiyush said:

Thanks I will try that.. Thank you..

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No problem at all. Glad I could help, and good luck!

Let me know how it goes!

One thing more.. if I open my laptop would be warranty be void..

itsmepiyush said:

One thing more.. if I open my laptop would be warranty be void..

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Oh! It's a laptop. I didn't see that before, I'm not too sure that will work for a laptop.

As for whether or not it will void your warranty, that depends on the manufacturer.
I did a little research, and it turns out you may have already voided your warranty to them. Take a look at this story. It was clarified with an update here, however. Though they still claim if a problem was causing by switching the Operating System (ie- Not a hardware problem) they can claim your warranty is void.

Anyways, I'll do a little more poking around to try to find a solution to this, as I don't think opening up the laptop is a good idea at this point.

Just out of curioustity, how many times have you tried to install Vista on this laptop? And you've recieved the error everytime? Also, are you able to try another copy of Vista from anywhere just to see if it may a problem with the recovery discs? (Though that seems unlikely)

EDIT: I didn't mean to scare you with the voiding the warranty. I'm pretty sure once we have Vista up and running again your warranty will be uneffected. Just at the moment (as Vista won't install, and this is user-inflicted) your warranty probably would not be honored.