messed up OS partition. there a tech GOD here who can help?

My idiocy knows no bounds.

I didn't like how the partitions were set up so I deleted the D partition and extened C to make one volume. I had no idea this completely messes up your OS partition and screws you..

I did make the backup recovery discs, first thing I did.

But I can't use them. It gets to the Vista desktop, cmd32 window is open, window menu opens, and then a pale blue box that says "restarting after installation, please don't turn off" and then that loops infinitely.

So I'm trying to install XP, and that won't work either, it blue screens and tells me to go into safe mode by pressing F8 while rebooting. Pressing F8 does nothing. Even if I got to the safe mode screen I wouldn't know what to do.

Reseller is telling me it has to go back to MSI. I find that utterly astonishing. I can't use my XP install disc to delete the partitions, reformat the hdd, and install?

I rushed this buy because my pc died, I don't want to be pc less for weeks unless I absolutely have to be. I'm willing to run out and buy Vista on disc if that will work, I just want to make sure it will before I do that.

Installing XP would be the best option for me though.

Hope to GOD someone can help save me from myself lol. This might be the last time I buy a non Dell, I'm too stupid to own anything else I think.

 

As far as the XP installation goes, you need to get a floppy drive and load up the hard drive's SATA drivers onto it. That is why XP blue screens. Or if you have access to another computer, you can make another XP disc with the SATA drivers by using a program called nLite.

I'm guessing that Vista got messed up when you ran a Windows update, probably installing either SP1 or drivers. Both of those have a good chance at causing problems, and I know that installing drivers from MS Update usually never works well.

 

I'm gonna name a child Greg. At least my next pet.

Can you give me any instructions at all on how to make that disc with the SATA drivers? I don't have a floppy drive. I do have both a Mac and a pc with a burner, and of course the XP disc. (I also have NT2000.)

 

Figured it out, it was the oddest thing.

All that was needed was go into safe mode, and run msconfig.

A long list of drivers popped up. At the end was a command to restart.

Unchecked that, and rebooted.

Everything back to factory defaults. The restore process evidently worked, but didn't clean up the reboot command from startup. Why, I have no clue. But it's almost cruel, just to stick a reboot cmd in the startup folder.

I'm pretty impressed by myself right now.

 

lol ur funny. are u still planing to send it bk to manu lol ?
to be honest i was nt happy the way partion was done and was thinking of making c bigger but after this i will stick to what i have lol

 

When I removed the restart cmd from startup, the result was that my partition change making one partition rather than the OS install partition and data partition was still there, just newly formatted now and with the whole thing the OS volume.

It cannot be the case that you use the standard extend feature in Vista and that messes up disc-less oem installs, that would screw so many people we'd all have heard about it by now.