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Dual boot with WinXP
When a repair install is instituted, in contrast to a startup repair which can be done when there is not a no boot Vista scenario, they cannot boot and ..... This means anyone looking to do a fresh install for any reason will not be able to. Someone who is doing disaster recovery after a hard drive failure or a

How do you make a drive bootable?
Even last week, when a terminally frustrated Vista laptop buyer begged me to install Linux on his machine, the bloat-and-crawl of Vista became apparent once more. Not only did this 2GHz CPU 2GB RAM Acer laptop take well over three minutes to boot Vista, it was totally unresponsive for almost a full five minutes

Can't write to floppy, can't 'repair' Vista
Use the drive letter that XP shows up as in Vista for the search. There is no way to know for sure what drive letters will be assigned at sub-OS level so it is A 'repair startup' after making the Vista partition active using the install DVD should work fine. Some times it has to be run more than one time.

Boot Requires Vista DVD
No back up of the thousands of files on removable media? Get yourself an external hard drive for Next Time. Burn DVD-Rs regularly, too. If you use data recovery software, install it on another machine and either use it from that operating system or create a bootable cd/floppy and work with that.

Vista MBR vs. XP MBR
For the same price, the Asus Eee PC (see the photo gallery) offers the same amount of RAM and Celeron processor but a smaller seven-inch display, a measly 4GB of storage space, and no DVD drive. And yet there's no way we would give up this two-pound wonder for a "regular" notebook. The Eee PC may be designed to

How to delete XP partition
I am using Vista Home Premium. I understand that this Vista does not allow dual boot. I am considering upgrate to Ultimat. I have two questions: 1. When I upgrade, sould I jut pop-in the cd/dvd and let the Ultimat do the upgrade or should I wipe out the hard drive and do a clean install? 2.

Blank Screen, Vista Bootup stops.
Using your Vista DVD run startup repair (sometimes you have to do 2-3 times). This will write the Vista boot records on your C drive and it will show up as the So I have 2 active partitions and 2 boot partitions ( I have no boot problems (but installing new programs makes troubles because of " by default " new

Vista won't load and enters reboot loop
Mark L. Ferguson MarkLFergu...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Boot to Safe Mode (F8 on restart) If no help, How can I go to the file on the DVD when I can't install the Pinnacle DVD in order to create a file in the first place or are they talking about the DVD drive?

How do you repair windows entirely using your Windows Vista DV
(On a side note, when we boot from the Vista DVD to run Setup, it has no idea what drive letters have been assigned, so it assigns C: to its own Boot Volume and share the same data file between both installations of Quicken, the existing one on my XP drive and the new install I plan to do on my Vista drive,

Reply to Mike B. Part 2
The work around is to physically disconnect any drive that you do not want the Vista installer to touch. In this way, all of the code is written to the desired I recently did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate. When I boot the PC, it gives me a "non system disk" message when the Vista dvd is not in the drive.

0x0000007e - after a reboot then 0x0000008e - Arrgh
Set your Boot order to boot from CD/DVD drive 1st. You will use the UP and DOWN Arrows to do it Have the 32bit DVD in the Drive; reboot. Follow instructions to delete the existing partition of Vista, format the Drive, install Vista. Any further questions, repost! "LAB Enterprises" wrote: Does anyone here have

Vista partition recognition / windows xp partition recognition?
I had the same issue and tried EVERYTHING to no avail. Updating the BIOS did it. "DazL" wrote: Hi, i just bought vista upgrade and i have tried several times the install..again, this step didn't work in my case either. if i boot from the DVD then it takes in excess of five minutes to load the dvd (hangs after

System Restore and Check Disk not working
If you do AU be sure to order the optional dvd, especially if your new computer does not come with a Vista hologrammed dvd. I was going to ask questions about the drive 1/drive 2 discussion below but, if I can use the anytime upgrade, it won't be a dual-boot install. Thanks to the assistance.

Allan/Janice - A Question
Boot with the DVD Enter Language(and time settings etc) Click Repair Other options that may work to install(or force install) the bootloader onto the XP drive(the Vista is no longer available. Drive D files are intact but I do not know how to load Vista on that drive without wiping out the existing files.

Why should a user care about Linux?
If you are installing Vista, you will want the hard drive that you want to boot from to be the second item in the boot up list. You can have the dvd drive as the second boot drive if there is no bootable operating system on any of the other drives. "tiger29" <tige...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

Can't write to floppy, can't 'repair' Vista
For that I _WANT_ to do the following. If I can't do it the way I want it, please suggest me a way that I can! I want to uninstall Windows Vista x86-32 without re-formatting/repartioning my If there isn'ta upgrade option, boot into to DVD, and when it asks where to install windows, select the drive with Vista.

Ok Seriously. What is the problem(S) here?!!
Put your Vista DVD in and boot to it. Go to restore a back up and let it search. I will come back and tell you it could not find a backup and ask you to find And don't listen to the fruitcake who suggested you boot to a Live Linux CD to fix your Vista install. Microsoft doesn't make Live Linux CDs (or live CDs

Uninstall Vista w/out loosing data
I recently purchased ( yesterday ) a Lite-On CD-RW/DVD+RW drive. I passed on other brands, 'cause I wanted to try this. (Sony, HP, etc. Twice the program caused the computer to suddenly shut off and re-boot !! I removed the software ( the original install insists on removing previous versions by the way.

Vista install on old crashed hard drive
MANY variations are possible, but the simplest method is just to install one Vista, either x86 or x64, and then boot from the other DVD to install the second Vista's Setup knows how to handle an existing WinXP, but WinXP's Setup has no idea what to do about Vista. With Vista, either x86 or x64 can come last.

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
I bought a retail version of Vista Ultimate and can use the install disk. I think HP allows you to burn a "Recovery Disk" that you would use to boot up the How can I increase the size suitable to do this. I have 35GB used on a 140GB (the drive is supposed to be 160 but only says 149GB). There are no other