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**justpassingby** · 12-04-2008, 12:04 AM

You could try to use a retail vista CD to repair the boot sectors that were overwritten when you isntalled XP (boot on the vista CD and choose repair, if needed use startup repair at the "system recovery options" screen). But as blah789 said in the other thread your best bet is to contact Compaq to get the recovery disks.

12-04-2008, 12:04 AM	#2 (permalink)
justpassingby Moderator, Microsoft Support Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Belgium Posts: 6,219 OS: XP Home SP3 / Ubuntu My System	Re: Compaq CQ50-210US F11 not working after downgrade You could try to use a retail vista CD to repair the boot sectors that were overwritten when you isntalled XP (boot on the vista CD and choose repair, if needed use startup repair at the "system recovery options" screen). But as blah789 said in the other thread your best bet is to contact Compaq to get the recovery disks. __________________ Malware removal steps. Post your logs there and not here ! Posting system specs