hello forum
before i begin with my questions a bit of back story of how i got to where i'm at now
my problem began with a custom install of win7 which i initially understood would give me the option to multi boot
no such option was presented and win7 installed itself on top of the preinstalled vista bundle included with the presario
later found out that a win7 install isn't compatible with the presario graphics card
the os display required a bigger screen resolution so i decided to rollback to vista
i thought that would be a simple task but i ended up having to recover vista from a folder stored on the c drive, windows.old
the rollback didn't restore all the program files and so regretfully i decided i had to reset the presario to factory settings to clean this mess i made
later found out the recovery partition had been written over by win7, i could not access it in vista or by using the f11 key in the boot up screen
the selection had been erased
i figured a solution to this would be to uninstall win7 all together
did a bit of research and discovered easybcd would help to do this and was given an additional suggestion of using gparted to help in giving the empty space in the c drive left by win7 back to vista, seemed to make sense
long story short i seemed to have misused easybcd, win7 wasn't running alongside vista, vista was listed as win7 and following instructions for easybcd i may have deleted vista from the system unknowingly
booted into gparted and this is where the story ends
i currently have an unpartitioned drive
here are my questions, 1) is the presario now inoperable, if not and the data can be recovered 2) can a compaq system recovery disc help restore the compaq partition, 3) can a windows vista recovery disc help restore the vista os
i understand that the owner of this forum supplies these kinds of discs, i wonder if they can fix this
all help and suggestions are greatly appreciated
before i begin with my questions a bit of back story of how i got to where i'm at now
my problem began with a custom install of win7 which i initially understood would give me the option to multi boot
no such option was presented and win7 installed itself on top of the preinstalled vista bundle included with the presario
later found out that a win7 install isn't compatible with the presario graphics card
the os display required a bigger screen resolution so i decided to rollback to vista
i thought that would be a simple task but i ended up having to recover vista from a folder stored on the c drive, windows.old
the rollback didn't restore all the program files and so regretfully i decided i had to reset the presario to factory settings to clean this mess i made
later found out the recovery partition had been written over by win7, i could not access it in vista or by using the f11 key in the boot up screen
the selection had been erased
i figured a solution to this would be to uninstall win7 all together
did a bit of research and discovered easybcd would help to do this and was given an additional suggestion of using gparted to help in giving the empty space in the c drive left by win7 back to vista, seemed to make sense
long story short i seemed to have misused easybcd, win7 wasn't running alongside vista, vista was listed as win7 and following instructions for easybcd i may have deleted vista from the system unknowingly
booted into gparted and this is where the story ends
i currently have an unpartitioned drive
here are my questions, 1) is the presario now inoperable, if not and the data can be recovered 2) can a compaq system recovery disc help restore the compaq partition, 3) can a windows vista recovery disc help restore the vista os
i understand that the owner of this forum supplies these kinds of discs, i wonder if they can fix this
all help and suggestions are greatly appreciated