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2nd Windows Vista Install
In this case the Vista install will not know about BOOT.INI and will never present the startup options to boot to "legacy" OS on second partition. INI when making a clean install of Vista on Drive C. If a BOOT.INI exists on drive C then a new Vista install will preserve it and will coax the Vista loader into

Resizing collumns extreemly difficult
If you set the XP drive as the boot drive and then boot the system with the Vista dvd you will get variation of the drive lettering (no real problem) and will have the boot menu after you install Vista on the second drive or partition. You may only have to create one registry key in order to protect the Vista

xp formatted a sata drive, any way to recover?
Malke ma...@invalid.invalid microsoft public windows vista general family4602 wrote: When i try to install XP it can not find my hard drives. its on an Acer 5315 with Vista basic. Is there a way to do this. God i hope so because I was only powered on for about 5 hours when everything went to hell with vista.

Microsoft throws in the towel on Vista
aborg...@redshark.goodshow.net rec sport football college Onyx_Hokie <onyx_hokie@yahoo. cem> wrote: [Scott Hendryx (scott.hendryx.clot...@sbcglobal.net)] [Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:04:14 GMT] But I'm still thinkin about that Mac for my daughter as the school uses them. Now that Slick's arrived maybe he can give me the

Hang during Vista Install
So I go and buy Vista Home Premium, then first am able remove the data (via knoppix) from the old crashed drive (first one). So I put this drive into the 2nd pc as MASTER (see this Mick) and attempt to install Vista. I get past the "loading software" and then the "windows" progess bar screens, and the screen goes

Vista install
We can control letter assignments when installing a second Vista by running the second Setup from within the first installation. In other words, if you had booted into Home and used Disk Management to create a partition on your second HD and assigned it the drive letter U: (for Ultimate?

OT: 2nd Windows Vista Install
When I tried to open the backup hard drive that I had from my laptop it said I needed to install Vista to proceed...so I started to, following the prompts where it said that it would As you are now aware, installing Vista on this drive was a (your second) mistake. The type of install you performed is critical.

Install 3 of 3 loop hang vista crash
I don't want to re-install vista on the "D:" as I will lose all my settings.. is there another way to merge the two or extend the "C:" (which will encroach on the primary "d") ? will simply copying the entire "c:" onto D: work, or is the system configured for booting from the "c:" ? Is there a way of getting this

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Ted TheodoreW...@hotmail.com rec sport football college On Feb 16, 6:39 am, Tony Rice <rtpho...@gmail.com> wrote: I'm curious, why are you installing Vista? What does it offer that you need? I assume you are still running windows 95? Because pretty much everything still works in good ol' Win95.

Vista Install Instructions
Chris Boyd christopher.b...@gmail.com rec sport football college On Feb 21, 8:10 am, <aborg...@redshark.goodshow.net> wrote: Chris Boyd <christopher.b...@gmail.com> wrote: 7> On 2007-02-16 09:13:06 -0600, <aborg...@redshark.goodshow.net> said: Onyx_Hokie <onyx_ho...@yahoo.cem> wrote: [Scott Hendryx

2nd Windows Vista Install
Now that I installed Office 2007 I decided to install MS Update so I can get Office fixes too. In a nutshell it appears when I go to the MS Update website to install it I being redirected to what might be the XP version of it. I am presuming this because I ran Vista SP1 under VPC and installed MS Update without a

OT: 2nd Windows Vista Install
Alan Morris [MSFT] ala...@online.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista print_fax_scan First, your welcome. Second not a waste of time but to limit my first install of Vista-32 on this machine - and why we had to make your suggested changes upon the second new install on the same machine with the same cd?

Failed Vista Install
Then it said it was going to install files and restart several times. I walked away. Came back later. My screen was blank and nothing was happening. So then I reboot the computer, got the dual boot menu. I don't remember if it said Windows Vista as the 2nd choice, because it happened so fast and I wasn't paying

Vista 32 - Network Printer
The SP1 install went fine btw. Since using Vista for over a year I only used Windows Update which works fine and always has. Now that I installed Office 2007 I decided to install MS Update so I can get Office fixes too. In a nutshell it appears when I go to the MS Update website to install it I being redirected to

Vista install space
Chris Ch...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public virtualpc I have a Dell M70, have installed last summer's version of Vista but killed the vmc and vhd because it's was pretty far off. So, yesterday I got a Feb release and tried to install it but it's asking for a "Driver" for my hard disk.

Dual Boot with windows XP as first partition and vista second
Install the game of your choice on that drive and play it. Now do the same thing but hook it up to a 1Gb Ethernet and see what happens. You will get major problems. You want to know why? Ok let me explian this to you. EIDE's fastest implementation is 133MB/s that means it's 133 megabytes per second.

MS Update won't install on Vista with SP1.
Art d...@email.me rec sport football college "Tony Rice" <rtpho...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:Xns98D9767488FA6jkl123iop@216.196.97.131... "Art" <d...@email.me> wrote in news:RNiBh.12935$JF.8440@newsfe21.lga: Are you considering the upgrade and stuck on whether to go or not? No, we are being told at work not

Vista install question (Please help me out)
I highly recommend one of these to somebody who is tired of a big loud dusty Windows box that is just one little annoyance after another. It sounds like you've had a great experience Chris, thanks. I won't be giving up Windows (I like Vista) but it's nice to know that buying a Mac for my daughter won't seem too

Restore XP after Vista install - help!
RJ rj_nos...@hotmail.com rec sport football college On 21 Feb 2007 08:39:13 -0800, "Google Beta User" <madro...@hotmail.com> wrote: On Feb 21, 10:50 am, "Chris Boyd" <christopher.b...@gmail.com> wrote: The week after I got my new iMac I got a new Canon printer/ scanner for it and just a few weeks ago I bought an

Installation software suggestions for win 98/XP/Vista for my s
Art d...@email.me rec sport football college "Tony Rice" <rtpho...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:Xns98D94DF5EF8A7jkl123iop@216.196.97.131... I'm curious, why are you installing Vista? What does it offer that you need? Are you considering the upgrade and stuck on whether to go or not? Art.