Hello,
So I got a Gateway ML6720 laptop, came with Vista, in a 3 laptop pile, including a Presario F700 designed for Vista (also wanna look for a restore iso for that too, tho that one seems more like a long shot). However, on the Gateway, I attempted a restore of the original factory install, but it got to 98 percent and then crashed (cord I used was bad), and the system just blue screened at startup, but couldnt boot into the restore partition. I know it is bootable, but I tried a lot and it hasnt worked a bit. I was able to make the partition active, and it did work once, and it gave me the "repair and restart" prompt that I thought was just gonna fix the install, but was unable to boot into it since. Tried several things, such as disabling the Windows partition, but it wouldnt work due to "missing or corrupt bcd files" (prolly because it wanted to boot into the corrupt Windows installation), so I just gave up and did a clean install of 64-bit SP2
Luckily, I did keep the restore partition because I was gonna try and recover all the restore files, try to make it bootable, and finish this once and for all, however, I do not know how to do this well. Im thinkin connect the HDD to my main desktop and cut and paste the files to a flash drive iso via Rufus or somethin, but it feels more complex than simply just moving it into a flash drive. I may need like EasyBCD, which idk how to do it. Worst comes to worse, ill deal with the clean install, which is fine, but I wouldve liked to see originality in this (o.g wallpapers, software, etc) and finding drivers, especially the display one, is a pain (Aero wont enable with the driver I found online). But if anyone can help me out, please lemme know. I know it sounds stupid in todays age, but because I only did away with the Windows install partition and theres still a restore partition (with Gateway Recovery Manager), I feel it can be done