Windows Vista Deleted boot partition. Broken Vista Installation

[smarteyeball]

Hi all,

I was tri-booting Xp, Vistax86 and Ubuntu. Xp and Vista were on one
hard drive with ubuntu on another. Since I no longer use XP, I
decided to delete it. Unfortunately the XP partition contained all the
boot data for Vista and ubuntu.

Upon re-booting, Vista failed to launch so I used the repair option on
the installation disk. This brought me to the welcome screen where I
could log into my account.

However, once logged in the screen says "Preparing Your Desktop" like a
new installation then it goes to a blank blue screen and that's where it
stays. From there I have to use Task Manager to start programs.
Whenever I start an app, I receive bad image messages like urlmon.dll,
ieframe.dll etc 'are not designed to run on Windows or it is a corrupt
installation'. When I start explorer, it tells me that my user profile
was not loaded and I have a temporary account.

I got a little frustrated so I decided to install Vistax64 on a
separate partition. After using Vistax64 for a bit, I realise with my
system, I am better off with the x86 version. (I've only got 1.5gb
ram)

In a nutshell I have a working Vistax64 as C:\ and a broken Vistax86 as
d:\ . I'm not fussed about Ubuntu at this stage, I would just like to
get my Vistax86 working again.

Any help, pointers in the right direction are much appreciated.


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[Rick Rogers]

Re: Deleted boot partition. Broken Vista Installation

Hi,

Boot into the broken x86 installation, run regedit from task manager. Look
at this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Locate the shell string in the right pane, replace the contents with just:

explorer.exe

Click ok, then close up and restart the system. See if this allows you to
boot into it properly.

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"smarteyeball" <smarteyeball.3amfzf@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
news:smarteyeball.3amfzf@DoNotSpam.com...
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was tri-booting Xp, Vistax86 and Ubuntu. Xp and Vista were on one
> hard drive with ubuntu on another. Since I no longer use XP, I
> decided to delete it. Unfortunately the XP partition contained all the
> boot data for Vista and ubuntu.
>
> Upon re-booting, Vista failed to launch so I used the repair option on
> the installation disk. This brought me to the welcome screen where I
> could log into my account.
>
> However, once logged in the screen says "Preparing Your Desktop" like a
> new installation then it goes to a blank blue screen and that's where it
> stays. From there I have to use Task Manager to start programs.
> Whenever I start an app, I receive bad image messages like urlmon.dll,
> ieframe.dll etc 'are not designed to run on Windows or it is a corrupt
> installation'. When I start explorer, it tells me that my user profile
> was not loaded and I have a temporary account.
>
> I got a little frustrated so I decided to install Vistax64 on a
> separate partition. After using Vistax64 for a bit, I realise with my
> system, I am better off with the x86 version. (I've only got 1.5gb
> ram)
>
> In a nutshell I have a working Vistax64 as C:\ and a broken Vistax86 as
> d:\ . I'm not fussed about Ubuntu at this stage, I would just like to
> get my Vistax86 working again.
>
> Any help, pointers in the right direction are much appreciated.
>
>
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[smarteyeball]

Re: Deleted boot partition. Broken Vista Installation


Thanks for the reply,

Unfortunately the shell string already contained only explorer.exe, so
no dice upon re-boot.

I've also tried removing the .bak extension from
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-21-3669071955-1041392094-2317420999-1000


and set state and refcount to 0. For some reason state stays at 0
while the refcount string reverts back to 2.
Even though this loads my profile and not a temporary one now, the
desktop now turns black instead of blue and the errors still remain. I
also tried creating a new profile but even the new profile has the same
errors as my original one.

So basically I'm a fraction closer but still miles away.


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