pro2a
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Before I dual booted my PC with both XP and Vista I think I downloaded and installed the Vista Service Pack 3... bad idea
Long story short... When I reset my PC it started and brought me to the safe mode screen
I was a little confused but selected the option to run Vista normally. After it thought for a few seconds it brought me back to another screen similar to the safe mode screen with an error about ACPI.SYS being corrupt and that I had to insert the Vista disk etc... I had no clue what that was, so I hopped on my laptop and Googled ACPI.SYS. Apparently if you download Vista service packs they can corrupt some files and cause your computer to not boot up. I fiddled around a bit with BIOS, tried running safe mode etc...
Nothing worked. Not even loading the Vista CD. It kept bringing me back to the corrupt ACPI.SYS error.
Finally I got fed up and ran an old copy of XP off of my external and saved the files I wanted from my master drive and reformatted the whole thing and loaded a fresh copy of XP then Vista. This finally gave me the "excuse" I needed to dual boot the two.
Now it's telling me I need to install updates for Vista. Obviously I'm a little gun shy now about updating anything. My question is what the heck is the difference between Vista Service packs and regular updates? In addition why do service packs corrupt OS files?
Thanks.
Long story short... When I reset my PC it started and brought me to the safe mode screen
I was a little confused but selected the option to run Vista normally. After it thought for a few seconds it brought me back to another screen similar to the safe mode screen with an error about ACPI.SYS being corrupt and that I had to insert the Vista disk etc... I had no clue what that was, so I hopped on my laptop and Googled ACPI.SYS. Apparently if you download Vista service packs they can corrupt some files and cause your computer to not boot up. I fiddled around a bit with BIOS, tried running safe mode etc...
Nothing worked. Not even loading the Vista CD. It kept bringing me back to the corrupt ACPI.SYS error.
Finally I got fed up and ran an old copy of XP off of my external and saved the files I wanted from my master drive and reformatted the whole thing and loaded a fresh copy of XP then Vista. This finally gave me the "excuse" I needed to dual boot the two.
Now it's telling me I need to install updates for Vista. Obviously I'm a little gun shy now about updating anything. My question is what the heck is the difference between Vista Service packs and regular updates? In addition why do service packs corrupt OS files?
Thanks.