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well i bought this gateway laptop with vista preintalled. I need windows 200 as well on the computer so i tried installing it but vista wouldnt let me. In a fit of rage i completely deleted the partition with vista on it, and let windows 2000 format and install on it. well that was a bad idea. currently i have a recovery drive partition, and when i deleted the vista c: partition, the recovery partition got the c: letter. i dont know if this has anything to do with it. but now when i try to install vista or 2000 it doesnt work, i keep getting a disk read error , and another error while installing vista about boot problems. so my computer sits there with nothing on it, sooo any suggestions on how i should fix this problem? i dont think its a good idea to delete the recovery partition, but i will if i have to. also the boot manager tells me that the fill system32\winload.exe is corrupt or missing.