I screwed up the os on my computer's hard drive. I put in the recovery disk to fix it, but when I reloaded the operating system I was drunk enough to think selecting German as my language was a good idea, since my minor in college is German. Nevermind that I haven't started my studies yet, so I don't understand the language. Now I always boot in safe mode and I can't understand anything. I try to reload the OS from the system recovery disk, but that doesn't do anything. I think I need to break the OS again first. Can a German speaker please explain exactly what to press to cause an error in loading the os, so I can reboot from the recovery disk? Thanks.
Oh, yea. Os is Vista. No, I can't just change the language. My version does not support that.
Ouch. Ouch.
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I have no experience whatsoever with Vista, but I will ask around. I can't promise any results until monday, though, so best of luck to get faster answers, I know there are some fellow German posters here on the board.
edit: I called a friend who is doing network-administration for a local energy company: There seems to be a little helper called Vistalizator that allows you to override the 'one MUI' restriction of non-Ultimate Vista versions. You need to download the respective MUI language packs seperatly, though.
Vistalizator proved effective. Danke. Now to get the damn thing out of safe mode.
Danke. Now back to my experiment. If I fry the os again, I recover in English. Lesson learned.
Don't you just have to go through this to get to the language installation menu?
How to Force a System Restore if Windows Vista Won't Run - 1st and 2nd options might be the only two necessary.