I recently purchased an HP laptop computer with Vista pre-installed. Immediately, I proceeded to install a dual boot for XP, as I still need programs that don’t co-habitate with Vista. Partitioning went fine, so did the initial XP installation. I used VistaBootPro to fix the bootloader, and now everything has gone south.
Vista won’t load at all, and VistaBootPro tells me it can’t open without an admin account and it’s not recognizing mine as one (I only have one, so-far-un-passworded account set up).
I made the computer-restore disks for Vista, but they won’t boot up, and I can’t get to the emergency-restore partition that came with the computer. Since I can’t get into Vista, I can’t use Vista’s tools to undo this whole mess. I feel like a noob, but I just did this (successfully and without hassle) just a few months ago on a nearly-identical laptop.
I don’t really care what happened, but how do I fix this corrupt bootloader? HELP!