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Help! I did something wrong!
OK, right now I'm using the Ubuntu half of my computer, as, well... it's the only one that works.
Here's what happened. I've been fed up with the Ribbon interface on Wordpad and Paint for a while, so I got a 64-bit copy of Vista and copied the EXEs and system files from it. Obviously, Windows won't let you delete Wordpad or whatever while Windows is running, so I booted Ubuntu, then deleted the original Wordpad.exe and put the one from Vista, along with the en-US folder, and same with the x86 version. I did back up the original files, in case something went wrong.
Well with Wordpad, it worked perfectly. Whenever I open Wordpad it uses the Vista version, the only odd thing was that Help still had the Ribbon instructions.
Well today I thought I'd try it with Paint. Obviously it was a little more risky as mspaint.exe is in system32 instead of in its own folder (and also in SysWOW64), but I figured it would be the same type of thing. I did the same process, and was surprised to find that Windows just would not boot. It had the Starting Windows screen, the little Windows icon, and the disk read light was a solid blue.
So I immediately went into Ubuntu and restored the backups. But the same thing happened. I tried startup recovery, but nothing worked. Even /fixBoot. I didn't do /fixMBR as that would disable GRUB and make booting into Ubuntu impossible.
So if I let it try to boot and sit there, it starts up with blah-looking Aero, 800x600 resolution, and like 5 programs crash right away. I changed the resolution back but CLEARLY the video card drivers weren't running, and I couldn't change Aero's colors back no matter what I tried. Explorer also freezes up and runs super-slow.
Now, one thing I noticed was that when it shows my operating systems, it says Windows 7 Professional (D:)... why not C:? Did the letter change somehow? And how would I change it back?
All I know is that my Windows isn't booting properly, and I even put back the files I took off in the first place.
So I need help, and fast! Please!