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Installing Vista on a test hard drive
Malke ma...@invalid.invalid microsoft public windows vista installation_setup k wrote: Hi, I hope you can help! My Notebook came with Microsoft Office Home Does the optical drive read other CD/DVDs? Check. 4. Assuming the optical drive is working and the trial Office has been uninstalled, put the new Office CD

Dell's Vista Premium ordered!
So it seems that I CAN install SBS2003 on E and still have my SATA drive boot XP and SBS2003. THEN install Vista to its on IDE drive (H) - sound right ? bobb I still "haven't gotten it" for the Vista boot loader - how does it interact/affect other OS'es (?) , SO ... I have SBS beta in another PC on its own NTFS

Vista partition recognition / windows xp partition recognition?
"AJR" wrote: Vista Premium does not included:"Complete PC Backup" - only file/data backup. Consider gerryf's suggestion of Acronis or other 3rd party utility. System Restore are there, but Complete Restore option cannot locate CD even though it is running in the drive! Guess I can use Install again.

is it possible to install vista on usb dard drive
If all I have is a SATA DVD drive (and all the other bits that make up my new build, obviously) Vista surely isn't going to get a chance to start installing if the DVD drive cannot boot (because it is SATA and needs drivers!). So, either the mobo (Giga-byte GA-P35C-DS3R) will be able to recognise and use the sata

Cannot Install Vista on SATA Drive
You have other 'issues'. I run XP Pro on three laptops, doing serious graphics on one and audio on the other two. Both C: drives are 8 Gig and all data resides on Vista doesn't seem to play very nicely with anything else. I usually recommend installing a removable drive bay and loading the drive with the OS you

Computer Failure
Tried to go to HP for a driver and according to HP Vista comes with the driver.. go figure.. I'll have to figure that one out later... Some other odd ones I have run across: My Office 2007 Ultimate would not install after a certain point. Kept looking for a file on the disk and stopped.

TWO OS/ Partitions other than C:\
Or can I simply hook up the drive, boot in vista and attempt a recovery? You obviously need somewhere to install the recovery program unless you run it from a live bootable but subsequently neglected to pay attention to windows which somehow suddenly decided it might be a good idea to format that other drive.

any obvious choices for a data recovery program?
I'm looking to install Vista on a 27GB spare HD that I have hangin around in order to test my motherboard, amongst other things, before I install it on my day to day that happens to work great with XP. The Vista upgrade advisor mentioned a couple of things that I want to check before I go and tank my current OS.

can't boot into XP after attempted Vista install
I have tried using the other optical drive and there is no difference. The installation disc is clean and free of scratches. I am at my wit's end! Installing an OS should not be this difficult...but apparently I am either missing something or I have a flaky Vista disk. Please advise! Thanks.

Cant install vista to sata drive
Yes i do have other sata ports so give this a try in the morning, off to work now :(. "Ron Miller" wrote: Dank wrote: I've been struggling for the last 4 hours to even get my vista install to find my Sata drive, when i trialled RC2 i used an IDE drive and this was fine but i dont have an IDE drive in my system now

Does Vista setup require a formatted drive to install in dual ...
It did, in fact, see all three logical drives (all on the same HD and all on separate partitions), and I was able to direct Setup to install Vista on the V: drive. This is why I have trouble understanding your problem. I've done this on two other computers. On one, the 25GB V: drive was left unformatted,

OS clean install, boot repair gone!
So when you are in Vista , it'll be shown as C:, so any hard coded installer will not have any problem installing in the same drive. Else if you have installed Vista Using Computer Management\Disk Managment to change the drive letters is only an option for drive letters other than the system and boot drives.

Cant install vista to sata drive
Hello, I have 2 pc's with xp, each with ide drives, One crashed, so I removed the hard drive to run as a slave on my other pc to see if I could retrieve the data. So I put this drive into the 2nd pc as master, and attempt to install Vista. I get past the "loading software" and then the "windows" progess bar

Can't dual boot Vista Home Premium & Win XP Pro
Upon trying to install Vista, it decides that none of my 3 HDDs are good enough for it to install itself on. So I figure...OK, let's go back to XP and see how I can fix this. But now it won't boot into XP. The computer can't find any boot record on any HDD other than the DVD drive. So, first I try fixmbr from the

Vista install on old crashed hard drive
Upon startup, the user finds that Vista will not boot. Vista is looking for the boot code on the drive where the user had chosen to install Vista This gets them out of the way prior to you shutting down the computer and reconnecting your other drives. Now, shut down your computer and reconnect your drives.

My Vista is very slow
Vista Upgrade advisor found no other problems except for Realtek audio which can be fixed with a driver upgrade. I have two SATA hard drives installed, a Western Digital WDC WD1600JS-55MHB1 as the boot drive, and a Western Digital @DC WD 2500KS-00MJBO. I have heard that there could be a problem installing Vista

Vista will not boot - work around
caboose2253 caboose2...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup i am currently reinstalling vista on that computer with a The bad thing about disconnecting all drives other than the one you are installing on is that if you intend to install on a drive/partition that will have

Cant install vista to sata drive
Any other folders in "AppData" store data that will be reacreated when you re-install an application. If there IS some user data there, This is what my user folder looks like: * Volume in drive C is Vista x64 Volume Serial Number is 18A6-E51B* * Directory of C:\Users\Peter Dzomlija* *11/02/2008 15:33 <DIR> .

migrating xp installation to virtual pc on vista using backup and
(Code 12) All devices in Device Manager are fine although on first boot from installing Vista, there were 2 ACPI components which Vista could not find drivers for. and then reinstalling and searching online for device drivers found them to be something to do with Intel Quick Response...something or other.

the file ql12160.sys is corrupt
When you install Vista, if you don't use an upgrade and want to dual boot, if you run the Vista setup from the XP desktop, you will keep the same drive letters (the However you can copy any OE message from one to the other. Good luck, CH "ColonelAddams" <ColonelAdd...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message