Update on “Vista Rollback” for customer.
Unfortunately, the rollback from Windows 7 to Windows Vista failed miserably – the “Vista” image that I created before the upgrade to 7 did not take and, when I reboot the computer, I received a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). My next step was to erase the existing partition structure on the hard drive, format it, recreate the partition structure that was stored in the backup image, then re-install the image – this process also resulted in a BSOD on bootup. I am now low-level formatting the hard drive, a process which will take a few hours, since I recall seeing some type of “boot loader” when I initially booted his hard drive under 7 and low-level formatting will generally remove a boot loader.
Speaking as someone who has successfully restored drive images before, I am quite surprised that a rollback from 7 to Vista is causing this many issues.
