vista wont load after a system restore.

okay heres the whole story, i have no clue if the first part matters but im going to tell you it anyway.

yesterday i installed windows 7 it works great, and that's actually what i'm on now because vista wont load. so anyway, after having my laptop multi-boot with vista and windows 7 i was looking around the Microsoft website and relized that vista service pack 2 is out. i installed it it worked fine besides it was in classic mode and my personalization thing wouldn't load, (i know, i know, that's from vistaglazz) so i decided to restore my laptop to before i downloaded service pack 2. now that worked all fine and my old theme was back, i unpatched the theme things by putting the original .dll's and other files back. so now i thought i could try to install service pack 2 without a problem now, wrong. it did the same classic view and the personalization crashing stuff, so once again i tried to restore my laptop to before i downloaded service pack 2, it worked all fine until i went to start my laptop back up. it just stopped right before you have to type in your password to log into vista and says "please wait..." then after like a minute or two the screen goes black with a little underscore in the top left hand corner of the screen. then goes to the "please wait..." message again. i thought "Oh maybe i can just restart my laptop and it will be fine, nope. i restarted it a few times and it did the same thing, but i have no problem loading into windows 7. so back to the point. (: after all that stuff i decided to leave my laptop like that for a bit of time to see if it finally loads, so i left it from 11pm to 4pm. When i went to look at it, it still was doing the same thing, i tried all the safe start, safe start with network, safe start with command promp, and repair your computer options. All of them lead to the same thing, this is really getting frustrating
Please help?

just in case this will help i have the vista installation cd that came with my laptop.

here is some info about my computer
dell inspiron 1521
came with windows vista home basic 32bit, but now dual booted with windows 7
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-55 1.80 GHz

Hello rileyrandom, welcome to Vista Forums!


I'm not at all sure this will help as it seems you may have really FUBARed your lappy; have a look at the tutorial, at the link below. A lot of people are having probs with VistaGlazz ansd the SP2.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files-sfc-command.html?ltr=S


Be sure to post back to keep us informed; maybe someone else will have some further suggestions for you.












Later Ted

i cant even get into vista to do that D:

rileyrandom said:

i cant even get into vista to do that D:

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You mention safe mode, can still get there to run the command from there?














Later Ted

i tried booting in safe mode, it does the same thing. i cant boot vista up in anyway.

Well at least you may be able to get Windows 7 up with the tutorial, at the link below.


Repair Install - Windows 7 Forums


















Later Ted

Do you try restarting with last Known good Config?

windows 7 works fine, thats what im on right now, and ill try the last good config.

last good config does the same

bump, i really need help on this. does anyone know?

Hello again.


You may have to re-install Vista from scratch.



















Later Ted

yeah, thats what i was thinking, just i dont have anything to back it up onto, would external hard drive be the best way? im thinking about that.

Yes, an external HDD would be a good option.





















Later Ted

okay, i have never had to restore a computer form a backup. will my computer be exactly the same as before i installed vista from stratch. i mean settings wise and stuff.

Didn't you say it's a Dell; didn't it come with a set of disks? I don't really know much about Dell's. I believe the disks will take it back to "factory", you may even get (I don't know) an option to make backups of stuff you don't want to lose; if I were you I would find more knowledge before I started.

Dell PC System Recovery

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/document?c=us&l=en&s=gen&dn=1091713


Keep us informed.












Later Ted

not really the right place for this, but since we are on this topic, where could i get a cheap external hard drive thats around 100 gb or so? doesnt matter with the transfer rate. as long as it gets the job done (:

Have a look at these.


Newegg.com - Computer Hardware,Hard Drives,External Hard Drives,100GB - 200GB,


















Later Ted

i never restored from a backup. will everything be the same like settings wise and my desktop?

rileyrandom said:

i never restored from a backup. will everything be the same like settings wise and my desktop?

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Bare Foot Kid said:

I believe the disks will take it back to "factory", you may even get (I don't know) an option to make backups of stuff you don't want to lose; if I were you I would find more knowledge before I started.

Dell PC System Recovery

Dell - Technical Support


Keep us informed.

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No, it'll be just like new, when you turned it on the first time.


Later Ted

yeah i know, but what im saying is, when i back up all my files from from windows 7 ( i can still acess all my files) and i restore my computer then put all my files back onto my laptop, will it still have all the settings? like desktop background the same and power settings etc.?