stuck the vista installation

Hello there , I am using win xp SP 2 . I ran the upgrade , it copied all the files and after this it made a boot. in the boot I got error saying "windows faild to load because a critical system driver is missing , or corrupt. and the file is " "\$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\System32\drivers\d343port.sys". So I simply took this file from my WinXp folder and boot again, the Vista setup loades and then after 2 screens it saying "setup faild to load the windows image file". Please , any suggestions? anyway , in case I wont succeed, how can I completely uninstall the vista installation so it wont ask me to choose if I want to load windows setup or an earlier windows installtion? Thank you very much for your help.

vista dvd boot\bootsect.exe
run bootsect /nt52 SYS
this should remove the vista boot menu and put back the xp one
"רותם סלוצקי" wrote in message

anyway , in case I wont succeed, how can I completely uninstall the vista installation so it wont ask me to choose if I want to load windows setup or an earlier windows installtion? Thank you very much for your help.

i have intel apple imac and vista installation just totally froze my computer now - so how am i supposed to format drive to go back to windows xp when it won't load up
i can get into mac os but not windows -- can you please assist me or direct me to how to do this w/o losing all data on xp drive originally - thanks
~Adam
"droid" wrote:

vista dvd boot\bootsect.exe
run bootsect /nt52 SYS
this should remove the vista boot menu and put back the xp one
"רותם סלוצקי" wrote in message anyway , in case I wont succeed, how can I completely uninstall the vista installation so it wont ask me to choose if I want to load windows setup or an earlier windows installtion? Thank you very much for your help.

If you had XP previously installed and just installed Vista to another partition, you should be able to select XP from the Vista boot menu... ? If the XP is still there (you didn't delete or upgrade), read on.
If you upgraded XP to Vista and can't access, read on.
Before attempting any of the following, unless you are "guru" then it is best to clone the HDD 1:1 .... Also since your problem description is vague on details, the following advice can be entirely wrong and there might be much better ways to resolve your issue. Essentially, I am flying blind aka Guessing here:
There must be easier ways, this is the hard way:
I don't have Mac, but I'd guess you can either use the mount command on get some additional tool to mount NTFS partitions from OS X. After doing so you should see the bootsect.bak in root of some of the partitions. This contains the previous boot record. If the XP menu was there previously there should also be boot.ini, NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM in the root directory. Now the tricky thing is finding a way to put the bootsect.bak contents to the first sector of the active partition. I bet there's some decent tools for Mac to do it but I don't know about them.
"Easy way":
Remove the HDD and plug it to workin Windows machine and do whatever you need to do from there.. (running the bootsect /nt52 V: from vista dvd for example, AFTER the correct partition has been assigned to drive letter V:\)
"Adam" wrote in message

i have intel apple imac and vista installation just totally froze my computer now - so how am i supposed to format drive to go back to windows xp when it won't load up
i can get into mac os but not windows -- can you please assist me or direct me to how to do this w/o losing all data on xp drive originally - thanks
~Adam
"droid" wrote:
vista dvd boot\bootsect.exe
run bootsect /nt52 SYS
this should remove the vista boot menu and put back the xp one
"רותם סלוצקי" wrote in message anyway , in case I wont succeed, how can I completely uninstall the vista installation so it wont ask me to choose if I want to load windows setup or an earlier windows installtion? Thank you very much for your help.

well i am stuck as well i need help because i threw away my box and now i have no pin number and i installed it but it says that i need to make sure that i have all files needed but i dont know what to sdo someone please help A.S.A.P
"droid" wrote:

vista dvd boot\bootsect.exe
run bootsect /nt52 SYS
this should remove the vista boot menu and put back the xp one
"רותם סלוצקי" wrote in message anyway , in case I wont succeed, how can I completely uninstall the vista installation so it wont ask me to choose if I want to load windows setup or an earlier windows installtion? Thank you very much for your help.