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Get your files out and then start over.
Windows Vista and 7 don't use boot.ini so your friend needs an "Tech Update."
Bob
so my laptop had vista when i bought it and when window 7 came out i got an upgrade disk from toshiba, so it's legit. everything was going well until my cousin installed bootlegged window xp pro sp3 version 2002 in disk d which i never used to accomodate a program that couldn't work on win 7. Now i want to remove window xp and use window 7 again but it's the most impossible thing. my cousin deleted window xp but couldn't boot into win 7. then my friend was doing stuff with boot.ini but that didn't work either. he said that my window 7 installed wrong or corrupt. so what am i suppose to do?

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