Comments on: How come I get a blue screen when booting windows after trying to install a crack? http://www.askageek.com/2009/07/10/how-come-i-get-a-blue-screen-when-booting-windows-after-trying-to-install-a-crack/ Where Geeks Answer Your Computer and Tech Questions! Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:41:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Mark http://www.askageek.com/2009/07/10/how-come-i-get-a-blue-screen-when-booting-windows-after-trying-to-install-a-crack/comment-page-1/#comment-9418 Mark Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:10:07 +0000 http://www.askageek.com/?p=3486#comment-9418 There is no telling what that crack did, so you're going to need to either try that repair or do a reformat. To back up data before you do either of these options, you'll need an operating system that can boot from CD/DVD ( like http://www.knoppix.net/ or http://www.ubcd4win.com/ ) and some additional data storage, either an External (or 2nd) harddrive, a stack of blank DVDs or a 2nd computer on the home network. Use the Bootable operating system disk to give you an environment independent of your now screwed up Vista Installation. You can now dump all your important files off from your primary harddrive to whatever works for you, and then go ahead with either the repair or the reinstall. I know this isn't want you want to hear, but you'll want to have all that data backed up away, doubly so if you're going to be playing around with dangerous stuff like cracks. There is no telling what that crack did, so you’re going to need to either try that repair or do a reformat.

To back up data before you do either of these options, you’ll need an operating system that can boot from CD/DVD ( like http://www.knoppix.net/ or http://www.ubcd4win.com/ ) and some additional data storage, either an External (or 2nd) harddrive, a stack of blank DVDs or a 2nd computer on the home network.

Use the Bootable operating system disk to give you an environment independent of your now screwed up Vista Installation. You can now dump all your important files off from your primary harddrive to whatever works for you, and then go ahead with either the repair or the reinstall.

I know this isn’t want you want to hear, but you’ll want to have all that data backed up away, doubly so if you’re going to be playing around with dangerous stuff like cracks.

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