Linux Live CDs

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Windows keeps displaying the stop error “PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED” when booting. Ran chkdsk several times with no luck. While using a Linux live CD, Linux can not mount the drive. Has my hard drive definitely gone bad?

Ok so i was just uninstalling Ubuntu Linux cause my GPU has no drivers that linux can use. So i went onto vista then to disk management, and i deleted the Ubuntu partition and merged the free space with Vistas partition.

I restarted and tried to boot up but i got an Error message that says:
Grub error 22
(or something along those lines)

I do have the live CD (thaats how im here)
I also have Acer Factory Recovery CDs but they didnt help AT ALL!

Im panicking rly badly right now!
what do i do to get Vista back up!

Idc about Ubuntu i just want vista back!

My computer is an Acer Laptop
Windows Vista Home Premium
250GB HDD

Idc if it erases everything, whatever it takes,

THANKS!!!

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Additional Details
I do not have a Vista Os CD

I herd something about SuperGrubDisk but i have no clue how that works…

2 minutes ago
I cannot Acess vista, or control pannel, and the Live CD of Ubuntu from what i know, cannot help me very much other than give me a Temporary OS to run off of.

I have had it up to here after trying to use a few linux distros and in the end am highly disappointed. I figured it would be fairly easy to put puppy onto an older laptop that does not have a CDROM. First I tried using a USB flash drive via the instructions on how to install puppy onto the usb flash. That fails and the end result from the rude people in the forums (try an older ver of puppy). I then try using a different computer and pulling the hard drive from the older lappy and using a direct connect cord I have. Well it all went well but I get some error in the end (again I ask in the forums with rude remarks in return and the same result (try an older ver.) Why would I want to run an older version. I can understand that maybe there will be some trial and error with installing to a USB flash but to a USB HD come on? Besides I dont want to try an older version, I want the latest release for petes sake.

After that I gave up on Puppy and moved on to trying Xubuntu, another semilite distro that I thought would still not chug on the older p3 laptop. I tried installing direct to the HD but it failed about half way through. OK I thought, so I scrounged through my parts and found a nice 2.5 40gb hd that I could use instead. I formatted to the desired filesystem for xubuntu and set the boot flag and then proceeded through the install. Success, I completed the install or so I thought. I poped the HD into the old lappy and of course it fails of the bat. No OS found, Great well thats enough of trying Linux for the night. I guess the old lappy was better off with Win 98 on there afterall. Whats even better as when I went to restart my computer where I was doing all these installs on its OS (Vista) would not start. For some lame reason Xubuntu decided I wanted to change my MBR on my main pc’s hd even though I was not even installing to that HD. Great so now I get to go look for my vista cd so I can run an MBR repair.

My take on Linux distros so far: Work flawlessly from the live cd’s not so much when trying to do permanent installs

I have a PC that was left on, when I came home it was off. It would not restart. It would POST and then return a HDD not found error. The primary HDD is not recognized even in the BIOS. Last night I used a Linux live CD to boot and check the secondary HDDs data.
Today I tried to boot from HDD, CD, and floppy, nothing works, but it still POSTs, and I can change things in the BIOS. I have this > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16899705002 < PSU tester and when I test the PSU the -5v fails to test.

Is the PSU the problem or is there another issue that could be causing the?

my computer currently is running ubuntu 8.10 and am trying to install xubuntu 8.10 from a live cd. when i pop in cd it gives me an error saying it can’t find the autorun file. it then asks me to download the software packages from the cd. Do i have to restart the computer and go into grub? been using linux for about a month still new to this.