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ok windows vista has completely messed up my pc. i have an hp pavillion dv5000, i ran the upgrade checker and it said i would be fine. i ran it from the cd and it errored on 19% loading the files. i tried extracting the iso and running from the hdd and it errored while trying to initialize the drive, i then ounted the image with daemon tools and got the same error. now everytime i turn on my pc the windows boot manager pops up. it wont roll back the installation. i have done a system restore and it has made no difference whatsoever. how the **** do i get rid of this?!?!

1. Did you verify the MD5 checksum of the .iso to be sure it was a good file? 2. Did you do a true back-up/full hard-drive image? 3. Were you installing Vista to a separate partition or hard-drive?
"will1234" wrote:

ok windows vista has completely messed up my pc. i have an hp pavillion dv5000, i ran the upgrade checker and it said i would be fine. i ran it from the cd and it errored on 19% loading the files. i tried extracting the iso and running from the hdd and it errored while trying to initialize the drive, i then ounted the image with daemon tools and got the same error. now everytime i turn on my pc the windows boot manager pops up. it wont roll back the installation. i have done a system restore and it has made no difference whatsoever. how the **** do i get rid of this?!?!

1. yes it was good 2. no i didnt make any backups 3. it was a seperate 30gb partition
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:

1. Did you verify the MD5 checksum of the .iso to be sure it was a good file? 2. Did you do a true back-up/full hard-drive image? 3. Were you installing Vista to a separate partition or hard-drive?
"will1234" wrote:
ok windows vista has completely messed up my pc. i have an hp pavillion dv5000, i ran the upgrade checker and it said i would be fine. i ran it from the cd and it errored on 19% loading the files. i tried extracting the iso and running from the hdd and it errored while trying to initialize the drive, i then ounted the image with daemon tools and got the same error. now everytime i turn on my pc the windows boot manager pops up. it wont roll back the installation. i have done a system restore and it has made no difference whatsoever. how the **** do i get rid of this?!?!

Try this (no guarantees but it seems to be somewhat the same issue you are having with Vista overwriting the bootmanager):
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.general&tid=8f57aafd-fd02-4675-8ae8-f859ac80be33&cat=en_us_9F280F8D-E6BF-F78C-234A-416CF09D5DC5&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1
"will1234" wrote:

1. yes it was good 2. no i didnt make any backups 3. it was a seperate 30gb partition
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:
1. Did you verify the MD5 checksum of the .iso to be sure it was a good file? 2. Did you do a true back-up/full hard-drive image? 3. Were you installing Vista to a separate partition or hard-drive?
"will1234" wrote:
ok windows vista has completely messed up my pc. i have an hp pavillion dv5000, i ran the upgrade checker and it said i would be fine. i ran it from the cd and it errored on 19% loading the files. i tried extracting the iso and running from the hdd and it errored while trying to initialize the drive, i then ounted the image with daemon tools and got the same error. now everytime i turn on my pc the windows boot manager pops up. it wont roll back the installation. i have done a system restore and it has made no difference whatsoever. how the **** do i get rid of this?!?!