Deleted boot partition. Broken Vista Installation

Hi all,

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

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

However, once logged in the screen says "Preparing Your Desktop" like
new installation then it goes to a blank blue screen and that's where i
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 corrup
installation'. When I start explorer, it tells me that my user profil
was not loaded and I have a temporary account.

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

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

Any help, pointers in the right direction are much appreciated

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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" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> 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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Thanks for the reply,

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

I've also tried removing the .bak extension fro
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Window
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-21-3669071955-1041392094-2317420999-100


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

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

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