Hi I'm new here, I know my way around one or two things concerning computers but this one's got me...I had Windows Vista installed a short while ago. But then I wanted to Install Windows 7 as someone lend me the installation disk of Windows 7.
But as there was only one partition I tried to re seize it and create another one with partition magic,so I wouldn't loose all my files when installing Windows 7. After reboot I was prompted to boot from hard drive or repair windows Vista. I couldn't boot from hard drive as nothing happened when I did. Neither could I repair as I didn't have any backups.
Since nothing worked I got one of those repair cds off ebay(yeah I found out they're free on the web but that was after buying one...). This cd had a mini windows xp on it with all sorts of system tools.
At least now I could save all my data to an external media. I was advised to format my hard drive and reinstall windows. I do not have a windows vista cd as vista came pre installed with my computer when i bought it.
I started Installation from a Windows xp cd I borrowed from my neighbour. Windows xp would load all the files and copy them to my hard drive and at 51 minutes remaining just restart and show me the NTLDR is missing message.
If I started the setup from the mini windows xp version it would copy all the files for setup and then terminate (Windows 7 wouldn't even attempt to start installing).
Because nothing worked I installed linux mint a couple of days ago but when i attempt Windows XP setup from there it gives me the error message : NO VALID SYSTEM PARTITIONS FOUND.SETUP IS UNABLE TO CONTINUE. I have reformatted the partition I destined for windows with NTFS and FAT32 and set it as "Boot" "active", nothing works.
Linux is great but I can't get any of my games or programs to work even though I have wine and play on Linux installed.
please help someone I'm going crazy
thanks for reading and answering...
Val
ps I have a dell inspiron 530 with 2 gig of RAM...
