Recover Vista after a failed w7 install

A couple of months ago I began the process of upgrading from XP/Pro to Win 7/Pro x64. It's been a 'rocky road' but I'm 'almost there now.' I started with the intention of running two 120 Gb SSDs in RAID1 as home for my OS and program files. At every turn I encountered the mantra "RAID is not a...

Hi, Today I tried updating my win 7 Home Premium using the win 7 iso, following the instructions in tutorials here at 7 forums, and everything was going great until there was a power outage and my laptop ran out of charge before the update finished :cry:. On restarting my computer, I was caught up...

So I've got a Dell back my apartment that keeps looping because Service Pack Failed to install, it shuts down and reboots, and then it loops. Even in Safe Mode, tried startup recovery to try a system restore, but that crashes and then the laptop shuts down afterwards. Is there a fix? If, so...

I got a friend who apparently downloaded a Virus on his computer, and now his computer wont load past th BIOS /POST (power on system test) screen….. I was thinking… just get a Live Linux/Ubuntu CD, using that and retrieve whatever important he has saved on his HDD… and then re-install WIN_Vista ...