Vista - Dual Boot Problems

Man, do I feel stupid right now.
I thought I'd be clever and test Ubuntu on my new laptop (which came with
Windows Vista Home Premium), and now I can not load Windows Vista!

I hate the GRUB bootloader, I can not get the computer to successfully load
any restore disks, the Windows Recovery Environment, or even my Vista RC1
disk from way back when.

I have spent hours searching online trying to fix it myself, but no luck.

Is there any way to fix the Windows Vista Boot Loader (in Linux), remove
Ubuntu (evil clown!), and still be able to keep my Windows Vista data safe?

Please help me, anyone. Is there a way?

Have you tried the Vista Installation startup repair.

"Stephen Staver" <Stephen Staver@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Man, do I feel stupid right now.
> I thought I'd be clever and test Ubuntu on my new laptop (which came with
> Windows Vista Home Premium), and now I can not load Windows Vista!
>
> I hate the GRUB bootloader, I can not get the computer to successfully
> load
> any restore disks, the Windows Recovery Environment, or even my Vista RC1
> disk from way back when.
>
> I have spent hours searching online trying to fix it myself, but no luck.
>
> Is there any way to fix the Windows Vista Boot Loader (in Linux), remove
> Ubuntu (evil clown!), and still be able to keep my Windows Vista data
> safe?
>
> Please help me, anyone. Is there a way?

I think I did.
If I try to boot to Vista, it has that message about "if the power was
interrupted" and I have a choice to start normally or goto startup repair...

Here's where I probably messed it up...
I was trying to do that, and the whole thing stopped responding.... so I
restarted..

Uh-oh?

Is there a way to fix this?

"John Barnes" wrote:

> Have you tried the Vista Installation startup repair.
>
> "Stephen Staver" <Stephen Staver@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0B6D678E-B5C2-40BE-9678-BF591D0CB780@microsoft.com...
> > Man, do I feel stupid right now.
> > I thought I'd be clever and test Ubuntu on my new laptop (which came with
> > Windows Vista Home Premium), and now I can not load Windows Vista!
> >
> > I hate the GRUB bootloader, I can not get the computer to successfully
> > load
> > any restore disks, the Windows Recovery Environment, or even my Vista RC1
> > disk from way back when.
> >
> > I have spent hours searching online trying to fix it myself, but no luck.
> >
> > Is there any way to fix the Windows Vista Boot Loader (in Linux), remove
> > Ubuntu (evil clown!), and still be able to keep my Windows Vista data
> > safe?
> >
> > Please help me, anyone. Is there a way?
>
>

How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to
troubleshoot and repair:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/en-us

You'll need the fixmbr command to get rid of GRUB.

--
Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
"Stephen Staver" <StephenStaver@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I think I did.
> If I try to boot to Vista, it has that message about "if the power was
> interrupted" and I have a choice to start normally or goto startup
> repair...
>
> Here's where I probably messed it up...
> I was trying to do that, and the whole thing stopped responding.... so I
> restarted..
>
> Uh-oh?
>
> Is there a way to fix this?
>
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>
>> Have you tried the Vista Installation startup repair.
>>
>> "Stephen Staver" <Stephen Staver@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:0B6D678E-B5C2-40BE-9678-BF591D0CB780@microsoft.com...
>> > Man, do I feel stupid right now.
>> > I thought I'd be clever and test Ubuntu on my new laptop (which came
>> > with
>> > Windows Vista Home Premium), and now I can not load Windows Vista!
>> >
>> > I hate the GRUB bootloader, I can not get the computer to successfully
>> > load
>> > any restore disks, the Windows Recovery Environment, or even my Vista
>> > RC1
>> > disk from way back when.
>> >
>> > I have spent hours searching online trying to fix it myself, but no
>> > luck.
>> >
>> > Is there any way to fix the Windows Vista Boot Loader (in Linux),
>> > remove
>> > Ubuntu (evil clown!), and still be able to keep my Windows Vista data
>> > safe?
>> >
>> > Please help me, anyone. Is there a way?
>>
>>

I would if I could, but as I said, I can't load into the Windows Recovery
Environment.

Trying to start in safe mode with command prompt or from DVD or anything, it
goes through as if it wants to load, but then just sits there...

Silly question but, have you made sure that your BIOS is set to boot from
DVD first? Is everything detected correctly by your BIOS?

--
Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
"Stephen Staver" <StephenStaver@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I would if I could, but as I said, I can't load into the Windows Recovery
> Environment.
>
> Trying to start in safe mode with command prompt or from DVD or anything,
> it
> goes through as if it wants to load, but then just sits there...

That's not a silly question at all!
I'd be asking that, too.

The computer loads from the hard drive first, but goes into the evil grubby
hands of GRUB, and I can't get into Vista or a command line to fix the BCD MBR
I have my Toshiba Recovery Tools DVDs and I press F12 when restarting to
load up the boot menu to choose DVD, and it loads, but when it gets done
'loading" it sits at a blank screen and I don't see any of the stuff I am
supposed to.

I have Ubuntu installed on a separate partition, and it loads up with out a
problem.. I just don't like it.

Stephen Staver wrote:

> The computer loads from the hard drive first, but goes into the evil grubby
> hands of GRUB, and I can't get into Vista...

You just need a quick grub lesson ) It's really a great tool once
you know how to use it.

I assume that when you reboot, you wind up looking at a grub menu
screen which lets you pick which OS to boot -- or that's what it
*should* do if it's properly configured.

The real power of grub is its real-time editing facility -- you are
not just stuck with what the menu offers you. You can either edit
the existing menu choices with the edit mode by typing 'e', or make
your own new choice with the command-line mode (type 'c').

I'm hoping that one of your choices is to boot Windows (but if not,
you can roll-your-own with the 'c' option). Select the windows item
and type 'e' to edit it. You should see (at least) a line for 'root'
and another that says 'chainloader +1'. If not, please tell me what
you do see and I'll talk you through it.

Nah, I see why grub could be a great bootloader..
but I just would prefer to just undo everything and go back to just Vista
and it's boot loader.

Grub loads fine.
I am able to boot into Ubuntu.
It's just if I try to boot into my Windows Vista, it will look like a
typical load, but it stops and hangs in that space right before it would
usually show you the Vista login screen, the recovery tools, the command
prompt, etc.
It looks like it just doesn't "click" with the computer or something,
although it looks like it loads.

I have multiple goals
1) be able to boot into Vista 100% proparly
2) repair the Vista bootloader
3) remove my ubuntu partition

I can do #2 and #3 myself if I can do #1.

Although it may or may not fix #1, Maybe is there a way to repair the vista
boot loader while in Ubuntu (as it is the only way for me to do anything with
the computer at the moment.
IO have tried wine, and tried to use BCDedit and VistaBootPro, but they both
need .NET 2.

Bah, this is going to be very hard...

So why aren't you changing the boot order to boot from the Vista DVD as Jane
suggested?

"Stephen Staver" <StephenStaver@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> That's not a silly question at all!
> I'd be asking that, too.
>
> The computer loads from the hard drive first, but goes into the evil
> grubby
> hands of GRUB, and I can't get into Vista or a command line to fix the BCD
> MBR
> I have my Toshiba Recovery Tools DVDs and I press F12 when restarting to
> load up the boot menu to choose DVD, and it loads, but when it gets done
> 'loading" it sits at a blank screen and I don't see any of the stuff I am
> supposed to.
>
> I have Ubuntu installed on a separate partition, and it loads up with out
> a
> problem.. I just don't like it.