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Cannot Install
Jonathan-- I haven't needed to do a repair install of Vista, but doing a repair install might work which is not the same as upgrading Vista on top of Vista. Try Startup Repair first, and system restore can be tried from that link on the DVD and other places at F8. Sometimes SR works at one location and not at

Vista Ultimate x86 or x64 will not install to SATA drives - ok ...
For that reason, I won't even touch XP or Vista. Here I believe the issue was the ability to move 9X from any machine to any other machine, or completely Again, that in no way would be a loss of all data if the drive didn't take a hit. Can you say Repair Install? The repair install for XP would potentially work

vista 64 bit corrupt registry
jakster jamesDAMNSPAMkohlme...@insightbbDAMNSPAMglobal.com microsoft public windows vista general Thanks for the good advice on the USB drive. I may just go ahead and image the drive of the Averatec laptop, then try Vista. I am pretty sure the video adapter will not support aero anyway, so Vista may just run

Duel-Boot install mess
Did you install Vista to unallocated space on the primary drive ? Did you resize the D drive to create available space for the Vista install ? Once I wade through this boot mess and get to Vista it thinks it's using the "C:" drive, assigns itself to such, and reassigns letters to the other two drives.

Installing Vista on SATA drive
Btw, no I did not have my main drive that XP is on unplugged when installing the Vista Ultimate full version on the new drive. Many thanks again, Don "Lance Le Claire" Under Vista, it shows as my C drive, I see the partion on the other hard drive my XP Pro is on, however under Vista it shows as drive E?

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
John Barnes jbar...@email.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup You need to make sure the partition that you are trying to install the boot and system boots flawlessly, then) I've manually changed the boot manger (and memory diagnostic, the only other bcd entry on the d: drive) location with

New Build
But according to WD they don't have Vista drivers and all I need to do is format the drive and Vista will use it. Other discussions in this community lead me Reading prior posts and good advice I was finally able to see my SATA drive at the "Select a drive to install Vista" screen by changing BIOS setting "SATA

Can I install SBS on old drive ? ( if Vista Boot loader is ...
I would like to upgrade to vista home premium but would like to keep XPMCE 05.Can i install vista home premium on my D drive?if so, do i install the OR can i install the vista upgrade to my XPMCE on my C drive and install XPMCE on my D drive from my backup disk. Can i multiboot with the two O/S. one on C drive

Installing X64 Vista on an 80GB 10000RPM HD??
"tntony" wrote: 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 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"

Boot manager location
"tntony" wrote: 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 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

Ultimate: clean re-install, need some advice..
caboose2253 caboose2...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup well, im kinda using it, my grandma isnt letting me keep .... 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

Vista installation drive letters
"BobS" wrote: Let me guess...... you're trying to install Vista to a SATA hard drive right? You can read my other posts on this and I'm starting to see more posts that involve Asus motherboards (nForce 4 drivers) and most likely the Sil 3132 SATA controller but don't know which is the cause.

multiboot w/two hard drives?
I hear what your saying Barry, I think the smart thing would be to install XP first since I may run into license or other problems later if not done correctly, since it is being Paul wrote: So I have to install XP Pro which came with my computer orginally onto the new drive before installing Vista Premium?

vista just wont start up
I've now had my Dim 9200 for several months and I've been meaning to find out just exactly what is the extra drive partition that came with the computer: The Vista DVD is simply the Vista OS and is meant for reinstalling the operating system only. The end user has to download and install necessary drivers and

Quicken 2008 Deluxe Vista 64 bit - Couple of questions
Ron Miller millerDO...@osu.edu microsoft public windows vista general 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 and the only thing that is detected

Cant install vista to sata drive
Even if it does, I would try installing the OS on the other SATA drive and see if it's more stable. If that makes no difference, I would pull 2 GB of RAM out JB RZOA wrote: Hi, 6 months ago I bought vista home premium 64 bit. So I installed it without a problem and then proceeded to install the drivers for my

Vista install on old crashed hard drive
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 drive 2. if not can I install SBS here on that sata drive (E) without blowing up the "Vista, XP boot" on my XP drive ? And then install Vista to the same

Problem Installing HP Printer on Vista
philo ph...@privacy.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup "Steve Samson" <SteveSam...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message You cannot change the letter to C: Unless you go back and re-install to that drive. However: it will not hurt anything to leave Vista on your H: drive.

Best way to switch OS from MCE2005 to Vista?
CHORUS: You just format the drive , Clive Get a New Mac , Jack Y'don't need that crap toy, Roy Just get yourself free Boot from a *nix, Jix You don't need to I guess this is a slap in the face to the blind supporters of vista, who claim "you have to be smart to install vista", implying that the people who have

Can I set up a new partition on my D drive and install Vista ...
Jackie-O Jacki...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices Somehow when I was trying to get my CD/DVD device to work, When Vista attempts to install the driver I get the following error: Windows encountered a problem installing the driver software for your device.