Vista - Create a Recovery Disc

CheeseMan, that's strange. I suppose you can cleanup the hard drive to make the needed space and try again to hopefully avoid a clean reinstall.

Shawn

UNFORTUNATELY... the failed uninstall has completely cleared my installed updates section. Leaving me with no way to uninstall UNLESS I can get my hands on an RC1 SP1 install exe. I got it via Windows Update originally and the command line uninstall requires the exe in order to manually uninstall.

Here's the kicker, after I cleared up 500MB (yes, with an M) of disk space, the ROLLBACK OF THE UNINSTALL (essentially putting RC1 SP1 back on) completed and I was back to my 50GB (yes, with a G) of free disk space on that drive.

Know where I can get a RC1 SP1 install exe?

It's really an excellent tutorial Brink.....
very nice


nishanth

CheeseMan,

I found this link for a download of the SP1 RC that may help you.

32-bit and 64-bit Standalone Vista SP1 RC Free Download via HTTP (Supports All 36 MUI Languages) » My Digital Life

Shawn

hiya, i currently downloaded your file and put it in my computer to us it as a recovery disc but not sure how to continue??
i recently bought my computer and when i got it home i got it set up and when i turned it on, a screen come up saying bootmanager.
and that there files missing or corrupt:S
apprently vista is on my computer but i didnt get any disc to help me out. now it has read the disc and iv gone throught the language section and it has come up with install now or repair your computer?? im not sure what to do as i know vista is on there it just wasnt setting up. can someone help please??

Hi Floobs,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

You would select Repair your computer now to go to the System Recovery Options screen. From there you should select the Startup Repair option. This tutorial will show you how to do this part.

Startup Repair

Hope this helps you,
Shawn

thanks for the reply, i did that too after i posted and it restarted and went back to the boot manager, iv got 2 options now, home premiuim and vista home premium (recovered). if i click the home premium it takes me to user which where at this point aint entered a password. so i cant get past that stage, and if i go into the (recovered) one it starts with the vista screen please wait and then this black box comes up does alot of writing which is too quick to read and then goes bk to boot manager. so either way im not getting anywhere. :S

What happens when you try to enter the password on the first home premium option?

Have you tried leaving it blank and pressing Enter?

hiya yes iv tried leaving it blank it didnt work.
home premium one is the only one i get the chance to enter a password.
the other one says (recovered) in brackets i dont know wot that means.
but the recovered one is where the black screen comes up scrolls alot of writing down and it looks like your gunna get to the vista bit and it goes off restarts and goes bk to te boot manager. so im stuck on the 2 options.

Looks like it may be time to do a complete reinstall then. It may be to corrupted to just repair. I hope you had backups of anything you did not want to lose. Your computer should have a recovery partition on it that you can boot into by pressing something like F11 usually. You will need to check with your computer's documentation to be sure, usually on a DVD or at their website for your computer model.

From their you can select reinstall.

If you need help on this, just tell me the brand and model of your computer. I'll look up the instructions for you at their site.

Sorry,
Shawn