WTF is wrong with my computer booting into Windows Vista (DELL XPS 420)
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Today I decided to try booting Ubuntu from a USB and see if that worked. Amazingly it did and thus I'm here typing this but one problem still remains. I still can't boot back into Windows Vista. I just tried booting from the Windows vista installation CD and it worked. Before installing ubuntu when I pressed enter on the screen after pressing F12 while having "run from CD" highlighted it just froze and i would have to reset the PC but for some reason it works now. After the menu with the installation options came up i selected repair windows and it did its little detection thing and it said it successfully repaired all damages and all i had to do was reboot. I did that and everything was fine until it came to the point right before where the windows vista logo usually loads and stayed on a black screen for about 10 seconds. Then suddenly my hard drive ( or what im assuming to be because it sounds like it ) clicked and my computer returned to the reboot process. This is what it has always done after the storm. I don't know what the hell is wrong with my computer and i can't even come up with a valid theory because it just isn't making sense for me
. Im pretty sure its not a hardware problem because if i can run UBUNTU i should be able to run Windows so it must be an OS problem. Can somebody please help me with this aggravating problem? Thanks.