I had a dual boot, vista\ubuntu, I lost ubuntu which had grub, now vista wont boot, and the geniuses at Toshiba did not send any boot or recovery disks, is there a disk or how do I recover vista?
not booting
- Thread starter modcrew81
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You need the recovery disks if you brought the computer from a retailer. Otherwise you will need to know what hardware you have in your case and then download all the drivers manually. Problem with that is you cant get into the pc to install them. Contact Toshiba and ask them to send your recovery disks. Without them you cant do anything
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Wired2fire custom evolution
- CPU
- Core2Extreme X6800 @ 2.93ghz
- Motherboard
- Nforce 4 SLI 16x
- Memory
- Corsair DDR2 800mhz x 4gb
- Graphics card(s)
- XFX Nvidia 260gtx SLI
- Sound Card
- Soundblaster Audigy 4
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell 24inch
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1200
- Hard Drives
- Western Digital Cavier 500gb Western Digital Raptor 150gb
- PSU
- Tagan Turbojet 950w
- Case
- Silverstone Timjin
- Cooling
- Fan custom modified
- Mouse
- Logitech MX518
- Keyboard
- Saitek Gamers Keyboard
- Other Info
- Its getting old, been upgrading it over the past few years, mainly the ram and the gpu's. Will hold out till some next year before I build another one.
Try the free Windows 7 repair disc.
Works superbly on Vista.
Get the same bit version as the Vista you have installed. Should fix any Vista boot/startup problems.
Boot the cd, select "Repair My Computer" ( at the bottom of the screen that says "Install Now" ) Run startup Repair - may take 3 runs to fix everything.
Download Windows 7 System Recovery Discs — The NeoSmart Files
Works superbly on Vista.
Get the same bit version as the Vista you have installed. Should fix any Vista boot/startup problems.
Boot the cd, select "Repair My Computer" ( at the bottom of the screen that says "Install Now" ) Run startup Repair - may take 3 runs to fix everything.
Download Windows 7 System Recovery Discs — The NeoSmart Files
My Computers
System One System Two
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- Operating System
- Vista
- CPU
- Intel E8400
- Motherboard
- ASRock1333-GLAN R2.0
- Memory
- 4gb DDR2 800
- Graphics card(s)
- nvidia 9500GT 1gb
-
- Operating System
- win7/vista
- CPU
- intel i5-8400
- Motherboard
- gigabyte b365m ds3h
- Memory
- ballistix 2x8gb 3200
Nice one S1W2. I think alot of people can benefit from that.
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Wired2fire custom evolution
- CPU
- Core2Extreme X6800 @ 2.93ghz
- Motherboard
- Nforce 4 SLI 16x
- Memory
- Corsair DDR2 800mhz x 4gb
- Graphics card(s)
- XFX Nvidia 260gtx SLI
- Sound Card
- Soundblaster Audigy 4
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell 24inch
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1200
- Hard Drives
- Western Digital Cavier 500gb Western Digital Raptor 150gb
- PSU
- Tagan Turbojet 950w
- Case
- Silverstone Timjin
- Cooling
- Fan custom modified
- Mouse
- Logitech MX518
- Keyboard
- Saitek Gamers Keyboard
- Other Info
- Its getting old, been upgrading it over the past few years, mainly the ram and the gpu's. Will hold out till some next year before I build another one.
Thanks for the help, I loaded supergrub and it repaired the boot, I can now boot to vista.