Sunday, July 17, 2011

Epic Fail

I wanted to install Mango Tools SDK onto my laptop to start tweaking a new app I had been prototyping for quite some time now on Windows Phone 7, alas there was one major hindrance. My laptop was running Windows Vista Home Premium and for mango be installed needed a SP1. I let my windows update to download the SP1 and tried installing it which happened to be the beginning of the end.

SP1 corrupted my HDD with an error message and I was lucky to note it in the middle of the night when I saw the light on my laptop persisting than normal. I force reset it and boom windows wouldn't started. it was of no concern to me since I had the same situation umpteen times. I used safe mode now I got the prompts for the drivers being loaded and I was watching the sequence eagerly when i got the message CRC DLLs cannot be loaded then I realized what the service pack installation had gotten me into.

I realized I had no way to boot again into my current windows version and finally decided to reset my lappie to factory settings. I had my external HDD handy and manually copied all files to my Backup using DOS copy  commands. Huh took me the entire Saturday night to make a backup and I regret missing my Dev Environment currently. 

Moral of the Story: Its better to upgrade to Windows 7 rather than installing Windows Vista SP1