Serious help needed.

[New_compforum_user]

Ok, so over the weekend, I decided that I wanted to try out the Windows 7 beta on my laptop, since it's supposed to be faster than Vista (which already runs fairly fast on my laptop). So here's what I did:

-I used Paragon's Partition Magic to create a 20gb partition that I could install Windows 7 on.
-I then installed Windows 7 on that partition.
-It turns out Windows 7 runs like crap right now (way too slow to be taken seriously, and several key features missing, I couldn't even scroll using my laptop's mouse or change my monitor's resolution to anything decent (it was stuck at 1024x768 or another smaller one that I can't remember))
-I went into Vista and formatted the partition that Windows 7 was installed on.
-I used EasyBCD to remove the Windows 7 boot info
-I then used Vista's built-in partitioning tool to give that 20gb of space back to my C drive.

Now for my problem.

Windows 7 is completely gone now, but I am having serious issues with Vista now. My computer isn't reading DVD-RW's, won't recognize my PSP, I get a message upon entering Windows that it has found new hardware but cannot install the drivers, no drivers that I try to install will install, my system restore points are all gone (I'm guessing that that happens when you partition).

I've checked for viruses and malware, none found. I have a Vista Home Premium disc, but it's just a "anytime upgrade" disc.

Can anyone help?

 

[chibicitiberiu]

Ok, so over the weekend, I decided that I wanted to try out the Windows 7 beta on my laptop, since it's supposed to be faster than Vista (which already runs fairly fast on my laptop). So here's what I did:

-I used Paragon's Partition Magic to create a 20gb partition that I could install Windows 7 on.

Mistake, windows 7 needs at least 40 GB to work properly.

Windows 7 is completely gone now, but I am having serious issues with Vista now. My computer isn't reading DVD-RW's, won't recognize my PSP, I get a message upon entering Windows that it has found new hardware but cannot install the drivers, no drivers that I try to install will install, my system restore points are all gone (I'm guessing that that happens when you partition).

I've checked for viruses and malware, none found. I have a Vista Home Premium disc, but it's just a "anytime upgrade" disc.

Can anyone help?

The only thing I can think of is to do a repair with the Vista disc, but you said that you don't have one.

 

[New_compforum_user]

Mistake, windows 7 needs at least 40 GB to work properly.



The only thing I can think of is to do a repair with the Vista disc, but you said that you don't have one.

I read that Windows 7 needed 16gb at minimum.

Anyway, I have some Vista tools that are said to be on that disc, built into my system (like the startup repair tools).

I'm contemplating just backing up all of my data to an online file storage site and using my system recovery discs (really don't want to have to though).

 

[New_compforum_user]

Apparently my permissions have been messed with as well. I can't uninstall AVG Free 7.5, and when I try to manually remove it (delete the folder in c:\program files) it tells me I don't have permission to do this..

 

[mep916]

Closed at the OP's request.