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Hi,
I'm not able to restore the system using the recovery cd's (Wnidows Vista Business) which came with my notebook.
When I received my laptop I setup Vista first, updated the BIOS to the newest version, and then installed Ubuntu and GRUB and it worked flawlessly. After resizing a partiton in Vista, using the disk management tool, I could not boot. I then tried to re-install GRUB using the Ubuntu Live CD but it was not possible.
I tried to use the recovery cd's to re-install a fresh version of Windows Vista to the first partition, but this did not work either - Vista did still not boot. Apparently it does not update the MBR?!
I used a repair cd form EasyBCD to fix the MBR with command /fixmbr.
Now I was able to boot into Vista, BUT after receiving the message that Vista prepared to run for the first time, I received an error saying something about that it could not use the hardware correctly.
I have tried to run the recovery cd's several times after, but still I get an error that it cannot setup Vista.
I have not formatted the harddisk before running the recovery cd's. I don't now if I should do that, since I have partitioned the harddisk? I have two partitions for Windows and two for Ubuntu.
When running the recovery cd's I changed the boot order in the BIOS. Pressing F9 during the logo splash screen isn't any different, right?
I have considered to buy a Windowa Vista OEM dvd. If I use an OEM dvd to install a fresh version of Vista, will that re-install the mbr (As stated earlier, the recovery cd's apparently don't do that?), and will I get options to format the harddisk? Does the OEM version contain the Vista Recovery Environment?
Any help appreciated. TIA!
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