Vista - Rollback Windows XP upgrade to Vista?

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

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.
This is Microsofts website

"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
>