spidross wrote:
> Well being the glutten for punishment that i am and not being able to resist
> new things i just bought myself a copy of windows vista home premium upgrade.
> I tried to install and all went really well until it said completing
> installation. It got to about 30% and then a dreaded blue screen crash!!
>
> The computer rebooted and the vista installation informed me that it had
> failed the installation and would restore my windows to it's previous state.
> This it seemd to do, but now when i start the pc up it gives me two choices
> start with an earlier version of windows (this allows me to start windows xp)
> or windows rollback which does nothing apart form sit there with the vista
> screen. I have tried every way to install it again but it just seems that it
> won't have it and now crashes on copying installation files!!
>
> Have tried everything it seems, what i want to be able to do is now go back
> to before i tried installing vista and start again. i used system restore
> (which by the way mentions nothing about an attempt to install vista) to do
> this but when the computer restarts, whilst completing the restore process,
> it comes up with the 2 options of either reverting to an earlier version of
> windows or use the windows rollback and because i have to select the earlier
> version of windows it then does not complete the restore process.
>
> the way i look at it i need to remove the file that is making my boot up
> process ask me the two options so windows xp will boot straight to xp. Then i
> can system restore to the day i clean formatted xp and reinstalled everything
> and try the install again. So how do i do that and remove all the temp files
> that vista has managed to leave somewhere?? I can't re-install my whole
> system at the moment which i was going to do as my raid floppy disc is
> corrupted!!
>
> Vista upgrade advisor says that my computer will have no problems at all
> during teh upgrade process with no problems reported.
>
> Any ideas help much appreciated
>
Here is what you need

http://vistabootpro.org/

select manage os entries and remove the entry for vista this should do
the trick