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Can license for Vista Starter be used for Vista Ultimate?

AUGLab — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:28:18 GMT

Hi, I currently have Vista Starter installed in my system. However my brother gives me this genuine Vista Ultimate DVD but he lost it's license key..

My question is, can I reformat my PC and install Vista Ultimate then use the Starter's license?

:)

Blue Screen crashes with USB since installing SP1

Argonaut — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:33:42 GMT

I have a USB HDD (powered) ... all working OK with any of my PC's
SP1 installed .. since then if I turn on the USB HDD when VISTA running it crashes .. bluescreen and creates dumps.
If I try to start PC up with drive already switched on PC will not start, keeps rebooting once it gets to Windows splash screen.

The USB HDD still works fine with other PC's ... as I use it daily for backups and file storage.

Did SP1 screw up USB ??

The last time it worked OK on VISTA was immediately before the SP1 upgrade when I took a full system back up .... since then it will not work with VISTA.

After a crash .... I have to switch off USB HDD or unplug i to get VISTA to boot ... often have to do a safe mode start up first , followed by shut down then a normal start.

Vista report ..."Restart after crash, shall I check for solution" but returns nothing ... not even a "nothing found" message.

About screen does tell me I have "Vista Ultimate 2007 Service Pack 1"

PC is Dell 9200 2GB RAM 6600 2.4GHz 2 x 330GB HD RAID 0

USB HDD is connected via a Belkin powered USB hub ... which works fine with XP machines - and worked OK with VISTA prior to this issue.

SPAM!

bjfanfan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:06:30 GMT

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How to remove dual OS In Vista

khalilK — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:35:23 GMT

Hello there, i had xp on my machine then i added vista Ultimate. But during the installation process i forgot to format the HDD and remove the old OS. After Vista is installed and i added all my programs i found out that there is an old OS and i want to remove it now but i do not want to format the HDD. How can i??

Vista SP2 Failed Installation tool from MS

WAW8 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:16:08 GMT

The text below is from an article in SoftPedia:

"A free Microsoft tool is available for download, designed to resolve failed installations of the second service pack for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Labeled the System Update Readiness Tool, the utility comes in handy in various scenarios when updates can no longer be integrated on top of Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 SP1. An illustrative example of a glitch end users might stumble upon is a failed install of either Windows Vista Service Pack 2 or Windows Server 2009 SP2 accompanied by the following error code: 80070490."

“To resolve this problem, run the System Update Readiness Tool (Checksur.exe),” Microsoft indicates. In the description of the tool, the company notes, “This tool is being offered because an inconsistency was found in the Windows servicing store which may prevent the successful installation of future updates, service packs, and software. This tool checks your computer for such inconsistencies and tries to resolve issues if found.”

"In certain scenarios, especially when users have been running a copy of Vista SP1 for a long time, some components break down. An operating system that fails to deploy updates has suffered various Windows servicing store problems. In such a case, the issues affect not just plain-vanilla updates, but also major upgrades to the operating system, namely service-pack releases."

“System resources, such as file data, registry data, and even in-memory data, can develop inconsistencies during the lifetime of the operating system. These inconsistencies might be caused by various hardware failures or might be caused by software issues. In some cases, these inconsistencies can affect the Windows servicing store, and they can cause software updates not to work. The System Update Readiness Tool tries to resolve these inconsistencies,” Microsoft reveals.

"The Redmond company has acted proactively with the availability of the System Update Readiness Tool. The utility has already been served automatically through Windows Update, as the software giant has attempted to deal with any problems that could prevent SP2 to be installed on top of Windows Vista. At the same time, Checksur.exe is also available for manual download, coming in handy to users that have disabled Automatic Updates."

“After you download the System Update Readiness Tool, it runs a onetime scan for inconsistencies that might prevent future servicing operations. This scan typically takes less than 15 minutes to run. However, the tool might take significantly longer on some computers. The Windows Update progress bar is not updated during the scan, and progress seems to stop at 60% complete for some time. This behavior is expected. The scan is still running and you should not cancel the update,” Microsoft adds.

- Windows Vista 32-bit and Windows Server 2008 32-bit - System Update Readiness Tool (KB947821)[url] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=b4d90b06-c27d-4483-bc1f-04d43fa7b293&displaylang=en [/url]

- Windows Vista 64-bit and Windows Server 2008 SP1 64-bit - System Update Readiness Tool for x64-based Systems (KB947821) [url] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=f6f353c0-d00e-43e7-97ef-0feefc7ff064&displaylang=en [/url]

Vista Upgrade Advisor

barrowhill — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:56:42 GMT

I'm running XP and wish to upgrade to Windows 7 via Vista upgrade to preserve extensive list of programs.

I've a report successfully saved and printed regarding Windows 7 compatability but having downloaded and installed the Vista Upgrade Advisor this fails because the "featured you are trying to use ..............." & "Insert the Microsoft Windows Vista Upgrade Disc ........."

I've downloaded the Advisor software from Microsft site and installed and run on two different systems. Both fail as indicated above?????? Can anyone explain error as I don't believe I'm meant to use a disc. I certainly didn't for Win 7 Upgrade Advisor.

instalation WLM on Vista SP2

drevocement — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:42:26 GMT

hi, can someone help me with WLM instalation? (I want only WLM and Silverlight)
I tried instalation with wlsetup-custom.exe and with wlsetup-all.exe too. But everything crash - instalation 100% and then was aborted and eroor 0x80004004

I tried msicuu2.exe to clean up my PC but nothing change :(

could someone help me, please? (sorry for my simply english)

dual booting vista + xp

mrclubbie — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:14:49 GMT

hi all. need some help here.

my laptop is preinstalled with Vista and i want to add in XP.

i look around many areas. guides are available but somehow they are still kinda complicated for me.

maybe someone can simplify the methods of installing XP into my laptop and achieve dual boot of Vista and XP ? and also tell me important areas that i should take note of ?

by the way...i dont have Vista CD, and neither do i have the $ to buy partition HDD CD.

thanks !

Problem installing vista(32b) on RAID 0 on a Asus M3a

nateiscool — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:50:46 GMT

When I go to the page where you select what drive/partition you want it to install on I click "load driver",and load my chipset/RAID driver. My two drives and on RAID 0, they are both 40gb. in my RAID configure it comes out to be like 78gb for the two. In vista its 72gb. So I click New and it gives me that error ("Failed to create a new partition on the selected unused space"). When I make the partition using 70gb of the unollocated space it takes about 5-10 minutes then pops up again but with a different number at the end. Any ideas? I tried "dd if=/dev/zero of =/dev/sda bs=128k & dd if=/dev/zero of =/dev/sdb bs=128k" from the linux live cd and still no luck. I also created a ntfs (no luck) and a fat file system on them. I am using the newest driver from asus's site.

Anyone know whats going on?

~NL

buring a bootable CD on vista which can be used on MAC

vista18 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:36:39 GMT

hi folks,
i am desperately looking fro some help..

issue is i have MAC laptop whose OS crashed. Hence i have downloaded version of OS online(twice :( ) using my vista pc now i have 4 iso files which has the OS and i tried buring the image on disk(using nero) and use it to boot my mac laptop but it's not working.. so i am wondering is there any thing that i need to consider while i am buring a bootable CD for MAC os.

thanks

Vista Fraud????

spog777 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:21:57 GMT

Hi,

I bought what was advertised as a legitimate copy of vista ultimate @32 & 64 discs. Im having a hell of a time validating it and upon contacting the seller was told to download a file from Hotfile.com to activate the verification. This sounds suspect to me so Im left feeling i have a copy (pirated) imitation-albeit a damn good one. Are my concerns valid or is this hotfile procedure legit

cheers

spog

Vista Install (no SATA detected in setup but is in BIOS)

JayD — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:58:40 GMT

Hi fellow Tekky's :)

Well Ive come to a bit of a problem on my sister's Acer M1640

it had Vista home premium on it 32bit

she had a key logger hack one of her game accounts not sure which but anyhow, the pc didn't come with and CD's so im wanting to put Ultimate 32bit on with a new Product key. As she wants to start fresh.

basically the original CD DVD/RW drive was 1st coming up with "your CD doesn't have the correct drivers" i was thinking well hows that work when its in device manager and u can boot this CD to get to this stage o_O.

so i put in a DVD/RW IDE drive booted from that... went in fine press enter to install F8 to agree to T+C's etc... then it says "where do you want to install windows Vista?"

there are no drives listed (The BIOS see's the drive) o_O

any ideas?

Ive tried with an XP disk too and nothing (both genuine Copy's of the OS's)

Also Ive tried looking for the AHCI and SATA selection in the BIOS but there is no option for this.

Bringing Things Back to Normal

Meteora — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:46:33 GMT

I have gotten a little fed up with my Dell Inspiron laptop. Basically what I have been doing in the past couple of days was try to get the PC as how it was when it was first bought, because my brother had been using it for a while and I wasn't sure what he deleted or didn't delete and whether or not my computer was how it really should be. I also have installed AOL Explorer (my personal favorite browser) on vista and it either sucks butt on vista or I was just pretty damn unlucky with it. Not only could I make it my default browser but it would not even open up after installing (sometimes, because I installed and uninstalled it many times due to it being a nuisance) it and it is a pain to uninstall, because even when you "uninstall" it, it still has many files left on your computer and for some reason I thought it installed files that were not even in the AOL Explorer program folder in the "program files" of my C drive.

Basically what that got me to do was search for any file that had "AOL" on it and delete it. It is then I realized those files were not really part of AOL Explorer but part of other programs and those files just happened to have "aol" in the name.

So what I went and did was put in the vista cd the computer came with and instead of "upgrading" vista, I installed a fresh new one, using the custom installation (not really custom just installing vista over again) and lo and behold, when I make a username and start from scratch, I notice two very awful things. Not only is my screen crappy looking and I don't have the 1200 X 1000 resolution option anymore in my display options, I am not even able to connect the internet. Wtf? What does that have to do with installing a fresh copy of windows? What does windows have to do with my screen options and my internet? Anyway I have all the cds with me. Please tell me what I have to do to get my computer back to the way it's supposed to be.

Thanks.

need help

sunilkumarbal1 — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:19:01 GMT

hi i have got a problem and request for a reply/solution. Please Help. i have installed Vista Ultimate (new installation) over windows XP SP3 as there was an issue with the DVD writer which works only with windows Vista. Now after the installation it boots up and gives a blank screen. There is no display and even no cursors.Tried to boot up in safe mode ,but it freezed while loading crccheck.sys

Please help

System configuration
Intel P4, 3.00GHz
1GB RAM
ATI Radeon 200 Express
DVD Combo/DVD writer

windows 7 upgrade question

xhasti — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:16:54 GMT

I have Vista Home Premium and am waiting for retail release on 10/22. In order to do a clean install of windows 7 do I have to buy the full version, or can I buy the upgrade version since I have Vista right now?

Thanks,

Justin

MSN Explorer

nowayhose1 — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:30:55 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I just bought a new laptop that came with Windows Vista Home Premium.

I have used MSN Explorer for years, for free. But, when I try to download it from download.com, it says there are compatability issues, etc. etc. It says search for a fix, and it lets me download a different MSN Explorer, but when I try to go through the steps, it will never let me finish the whole process. The only option it gives me is to buy a dial up connection using MSN Explorer. And I don't want to!

Has anyone here that's using MSN Explorer for free, succesfuly installed MSN Explorer to use?

Also, The Windows Mail doesn't even let me sync up with an MSN account. :(

Dual booting Vista and XP

WAW8 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:29:41 GMT

There are two scenarios with dual booting a machine with both XP and Vista: (1) XP installed first, (2) Vista installed first.

The link below is to a set of detailed steps that will walk you through the process of setting up a dual-boot machine, where XP was installed first (and you're now installing Vista):

[url] http://apcmag.com/5023/dual_booting_xp_with_vista [/url]

The link below is also to a set of detailed steps that will walk you through the process of setting up a dual-boot machine, but in this case, where Vista was installed first (and you're now installing XP):

[url] http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp [/url]

Should I dual boot, or Just have the one OS

spinydelta1 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:57:24 GMT

Hi Guys,

Im new to the forum, but wanted to ask a question, I have Windows Vista 32BIT installed, (Home Premium) and I final download the windows 7 RC, Build 7100.

I wanted to ask, do you think I should dual boot this with my Vista install. Or do a complete, new install of Windows 7. I no that my friend's have problems with games when dual booting with windows 7 & vista, But I didn't no whether thats because the OS is just an Beta or because they are dual booting. but because I mainly use my computer for gaming, I want the best results.

Can someone please help me out here.

Thanks,

Josh

Upgrade to Ultimate

pacman52 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:44:25 GMT

Hi Guys my first post here - so hopefully it's in the right area of the forum.

I am currently running Vista Business on a Sony Vaio laptop (Z11VN) I have been given a copy of Vista Ulitmate (Legitimate copy I should add !)

The DVD is a Windows Anytime Upgrade Pack from Vista Business to Vista ultimate (with SP2) - My question is should I do this upgrade? will there be any real benefits or is it likely to cause me any problems with compatibilty etc..

Many thanks for any advice you can offer

Pau

Cannot Install Windows Vista Ultimate

tyqre — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:41:10 GMT

When i try and Install Windows Vista Ultimate i get to the part where i select where i want to download it and it wont let me hit next. It says that my Serial ATA driver is missing. I have up dated my driver and it still says this. What could be the cause of this?:hehe:

my Serial ATA controller is a Nvidia nForce Serial ATA Controller.
I had windows Vista Home premium on it before but my computer did not come with an installation disk.

Windows Installation Help

iToastie — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:44:06 GMT

Hello,

Today I decided to reinstall a fresh Windows, since I knew I had junk just sitting there. I also like to reinstall every few months. Anyway, I have been running Windows Vista on the computer for awhile now, the computer was made for XP, but it ran Vista just fine. I figured instead of installing Vista again, I would install XP, just so I could get the best performance out of my computer. Well I went to install Windows XP from my CD, formatting my hard drive, deleting all partitions. Created a new partition and then it started copying files. It finished copying files, said 15 seconds until restart, so I let it go, it restarted and all was fine. Then it went passed the HP screen, it said Press any key to boot from CD....Error loading operating system.

I have installed a OS many times, and it has always said Press any key to boot from CD.... then it finishes installation. Now it says Error loading operating system.

I tried it again, formatting everything. Same thing.

Then I loaded the default BIOS configuration. Tried it again, same thing.

Then I tried to install Vista, same exact thing happen, after the first reboot, it said Press any key to boot from CD or DVD.... but then nothing happens after that. Cant even press any key to load from CD (after the 5 dots went across after DVD.....).

I always took out my video card, and plugged my monitor into the original motherboard monitor slot.

Now, I really don't care which I have installed.... XP or Vista, preferably XP, for best performance, but Vista will do, I just need my computer.

Note: I have both Windows XP and Windows Vista installation CDs.

halo installation

kahne032 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:37:54 GMT

when i install halo1 and try to get on the internet it says invalid product key not using the product key that came with the disk

Lost Admin password & Can't reinstall window vista.

longdoan — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:12:32 GMT

i had window XP installed and upgraded to Vista few months ago. Now, the problem is i lost my admin account password. I tried many ways to reset the password but i cant. So, i decided to reinstall window vista. i set my DVD-Room as the first priority boot, but it doesnt work for some reason. It will stuck at a black screen when i try to boot the vista cd. Can anyone help me with this problem?
I lost the password for my admin account, but i have another account but it isn't admin account type. i tried to install vista with that account but it said i dont have the permission to install. can someone tell me how to reset the admin password or how to reinstall window vista?
thank you very much

Computer does nothing

SOmeone — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:04:06 GMT

I have an HP DV9XXX laptop. It came pre-installed with Vista Home. I created back up disks from the recovery drive. I went to reinstall Vista Home using the Recovery disks and on disk 3 of 3 it would not read. I hit cancel and now I get the HP logo screen and then after I just get a black screen with a blinking cursor. Now it will not get past the black screen no matter what. I've put in a the recovery disks, a full copy of Vista disk and a full copy of XP pro, I hear the disks spinning but nothing happens. I can get into the BIOS menu and I ensured the boot order is CD/DVD drive first. I really need some assistance with this. Please give me any suggestions you might have.

Thanks

Cloning hardrives at upgrade!

selkov — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:26:09 GMT

My pc's MoBo died so I got a new MoBo.
My hard drive is intact but will not boot to the new pc.
How can I upgrade the needed drivers without having to reinstall the entire OS?

Trouble ReInstalling Vista

steako — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:13:22 GMT

I have just tried reinstalling Windows Vista 32. As soon as i insert the disc and click install now, i get an error

[i]This computer does not have enough space for temporary files. Windows installation needs at least 405mb on any partition for temporary files. To install windows, free enough space and restart the installation.

Error code: 0x80004005
[/i]
I have almost 250gb of free space on my HHD so cant understand why i am getting this error.

Has anyone ever come across this before?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Booting Vista from External HD via USB

Blek — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:38:24 GMT

I'm trying to have an additional drive with vista installed for back-up, recovery, problem solving etc... for my laptop. So I tried to be smart, and installed Vista on a SATA hard drive that was connected to the SATA cable of a PC. The HD was then put in an enclosure connected via USB to the laptop. However, when trying a reboot on the USB drive, it got started (which means it recognized the System on the external HD), then the loading stops with a blue screen and the machine get restarted. I believe there should be an incompatibility in the way vista was installed (as a main HD "C:") and the way it tries to load (as an external HD "F:"). I have no clue how to repair the installation on the external HD, I tried the "Repair" function from the vista DVD but it didn't help, same problem after repair. May be things have to be repaired manually?

any help will be appreciated.

Uninstalling Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

sfzab — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:47:51 GMT

I replaced an Asus M2N-SLI mobo for an [b]Asus M3N-HT Deluxe Series[/b] mobo that has Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit installed on the SATA 1 HD. On the SATA 2 HD opensuse linux 11.1 is installed.

When I booted for the first time the Asus M3N-HT Deluxe Series the Windows Vista Home Premium ran well, and I did not have any problems reactivating the operating system. I did had problems with opensuse linux 11.1, but after reinstalling it again on the second HD drive it also works well.

I bought a Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Installation DVD, but I cannot install it. How can I uninstall Windows Vista Premium 32-bit so that the new 64-bit version will install properly on the SATA 1 HD?

I tried to use latest gparted version {the gnome partition editor} to delete the Windows operating system partition, but it fails to run on the PC. The new motherboard has 4 X 1GB memory modules, and the CPU is an AMD AM2+ 7750 Dual-Core processor.

I do not know if there any other alternate ways to solve this situation.

Your kind assistance will be highly regarded.

upgrade install problems

bcmagnus — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:22:16 GMT

I purchased vista ultimate upgrade from digital river along with office ultimate. File downloaded is X14-63452 for vista ultimate it will not install i get an error about VistaSetupPrep.exe, boot.wim, install.wim and an error code 0x80070002. Ive tried to delete and download several times with no success. Office ultimate downloaded and installed perfect. Digital River does not respond. Help please newbie here

Activate Windows Vista SP0/SP1/SP2 X86 X64 on non-SLIC systems.

jinsk8r — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:49:28 GMT

Moderator: Content removed. Cracks not permitted on the Forum.

Windows Vista Install Dell XPS720

Liquid~Thesis — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:38:28 GMT

Hey guys, I am trying to install Windows Vista 64-Bit Home Premium to my Dell XPS720. First of all, I had issues trying to get the computer to actually begin installing Windows, I got over that by getting the PC to boot from the DVD drive. The install appeared to be going smoothly after that. I went through the menus until it asked me which hard drive to install too. It only shows one hard drive on the menu (marked as "Drive 1 Unalloted Space"), even though I know this PC has two. When I click "Install" it tells me that the hard drive is not suitable for windows to install too. It suggests that I go into BIOS and check that the hard drives controller is on. I have checked and it is, but Windows will still not install too this hard drive. There is plenty of free space (465GB). I'd really like to solve this problem and get the PC going again as it has been sitting around for a long time without an operating system.
Appreciate any help or guidance :)

Installing Vista Business OEM 64-bit over a Home Basic trial

Asclepius89 — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:33:13 GMT

Hello,

So finally I have some extra time to backup everything in my old PC to an external HDD and move onto my new PC that I have bought a month ago.

It already has a Vista Home Basic trial installed but it has ended by now. It also has a couple of drivers already installed. However I have an OEM CD of Vista Business 64 that I'm going to use and I also want to have Vista to be in it's own partition. It's been a long time I had to format and create partitions so I don't remember much. And it was with XP then, not Vista.

I was planning to format the drive and then install Vista Business 64, but I've been told I can simply select an 'upgrade' option from Home Basic to Business and keep the rest as it is. Is this true?

I also know you can create a partition in Vista, but can it be created in the drive where Vista is already installed? Like for example it's installed on a 640GB drive. Can I split it and have Vista be in a 80GB drive while the other 560GB are in a new completely empty partition?

Also, in case I decide to format instead, should I do Quick Format or Format? I've been told the only thing normal format does is check for errors at the end. Taking in consideration that Vista Home Basic is currently installed is Quick Format acceptable?

I'm planning on doing this tomorrow so the sooner someone could answer these the better!

Thanks! :)

Can I order Vista 64 media from Microsoft with Vista 32 (upgrade) License?

gafritze — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:38:34 GMT

I'm building an HTPC. I would like to run Vista 64. It's my understanding that you can order the 64bit DVD media from Microsoft if you own Vista 32.

I have a dialog with someone who has Vista 32 (upgrade) version that I can get on the cheap. That's OK as I have both Windows 2000 and Windows XP from which to upgrade (I'm also aware of the clean install trick) but that's not the question.

I understand that you can't directly upgrade to Vista 64 (It has to be a clean install). Given that, can I order Vista 64 media from Microsoft with Vista 32 (upgrade) License or do I require the full version License to qualify?

In vista ADMINISTRATOR (for permissions) USERNAME and PASSWORD must be setup (required?) during installation or may do not needed ?

lse123 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:48:38 GMT

I have a DSL MODEM with wireless g function , well is needed setup anything in windows for security when PC is on (modem is always on) ?

In vista ADMINISTRATOR (for permissions) USERNAME and PASSWORD must be setup (required?) during installation or may do not needed ? In case you do not setup what is happen ?

My PC setup by a technician not me, well where find id/password of ADMINISTRATOR for vista ? there is case, non setup and must setup by me ? Is good ADMINISTRATOR have password for laptops or desktops ?

Dell OEM re-install Fail

FathomDeep — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:00:35 GMT

I've got a Dell 1720 laptop which is now about two years old. It worked well for a year, and then I had hard drive issues. I contacted dell and they sent me a new to me, refurbished hard drive. I should also note that these particular Dell hardrives come with a 10gb partition for the Dell Recovery BS. I formatted this partition and was using it for random storage. All was well.

This previous week (about a year from new HD) I decide it's time for a reformat as things are running mucky. I also want to remove the 10bg partition which is driving me nuts everytime I open explorer. I download and run gparted from a DVD to do so. While in gparted, I find that my hard drive also has a small 2.5 gb partition to the right of the C drive (what was the recovery portion was to the left). there's also a 31mb partition to the left od the recovery drive (apperantly this is for the media keys, i don't mess wit it) I try to add the 2.5 gb and the 10gb to the C drive, and I get an error messege which I don't remeber. I boot back into windows, wipe out the 2.5gb and add it to the C drive with the control panel manager app. Go back into gparted, and try to add the 10 gb portion to the C drive. It works. Cool, now everything is partitioned as I want it too be, cept there's still that weird 31mb tom foolery, but I'll let it hang, I like my media keys.

I try to boot into windows, no go, just a black screen with the blinking white line. So moving that partition around clearly screwed my windows install. No biggy, I was ready to roll on the reformat any way. I boot into Darik's Boot and Nuke and blow the crap out of everything. Put in a streamlined windows SP1 install disc I made with vlite from my Dell OEM vista CD, and get ready to rock. Format the HD, and install windows. Windows installs, setup my profile and all that jazz. Because my streamline has SP1 it jumps into that, and installs it right away. This is where the real problems start. Windows won't boot, and gives me a messege about using the repair utility on my windows CD. It gives me an error messege, which I neglect to write down and says something along the lines of "a recent update may have ****ed you in the ***, try using the rpair utlities". The repair utility does not help. It's VERY possible that I messed up creating the streamline, it was my first time using the program, and I finalized an iso, then went back and chnaged it. Screw this. I get out the original Dell OEM CD. Format with that, install it. This time though, I don't even get that far. Everything's peachy after "installing updates" the computer reboots after telling me it's going to, then I get the "preparing to load into windows for the first time" and then it comes back to "completing installtion" and hangs there (note: with the streamline it blasted through this step). Nothing happens. I leave it for about 3 hours. The screen is black the mouse is there, but nothing. I don't even get to the profile creation like I did with the streamline. I reboot, try to load into windows, gives me the "windows was shut down improperly" msg. If I try to boot into safe mode it hangs at crcdsk.sys being the last thing loaded. If I try to run normally, or with last known good config, it just hangs at an eternal loading bar. I've run all the diagnostics on the windows repair portion of the CD and in my BIOS (the option when pressing f12) I haven't done any of the F8 stuff.

I'm starting to think that this can be solved if I make a streamlined vlite disc without being a retard.

Just to make it a little tougher though, this weekend I don't have a DVD burner with me, I've effectively nuked the only one I had, so hopefull the solution doesn't involve this.
:hehe:
Thanks for reading my wall of text. If more specifics are needed, just ask.

flash.ocx error

lithium_o — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:25:40 GMT

i am trying to run some program contain a .swf files to play ,

but i had this error "class no registered" and it's not working

and in error details i read this

"this program requires flash.ocx, which is no longer included in this version of windows"

:blink:

i have windows vista home premium sp1

and i tried to uninstall the flash player from my laptop and reinstall it again ... but it's still the same

i hope someone can help me ..

thanx

Cannot install Vista.

Alfx — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:33:38 GMT

I made a 200gig NTFS partition to install vista on.

[b]Hardware:[/b]
[i]Motherboard:[/i] PK5/EPU
[i]CPU:[/i] Intel E8400
[i]Graphic Card:[/i] Ati Radeon 4870
[i]Ram:[/i] 2gig
[i]HDD:[/i] Western digital 320 gig

[b]Problem:[/b]
I put in the DVD, everything goes well and installs, then my computer restarts(which is normal)

Then when it comes back on it continues the installation...but when it gets to Finishing installation ...

It gets stuck there, I left it running for like 2 hours and it didn't do anything(the green bar at the bottom doesn't even move)

[b]More information:[/b]
-I can install windows XP perfectly fine on that partition.

-For the heck of it I also tried install windows 7, which fully installed, but every time the OS starts, my computer reboots and inserting the window 7 install disk again gives me a blue screen of death.

How can I fix my computer so I can install Vista?

Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor

pdsnickles — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:30:16 GMT

I downloaded and ran the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor on my XP SP2 and it started a scan to determine the answer and it's been going for about 15-20 min. already. I think I should assume it is not working, right? Seems a long time. I only have a 50 gig hd and not THAT much software/hardware...

Vista Partitions

PaulW IOW — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 04:25:12 GMT

On initial installation I created a second partition using the computer manage facility, This partition is used to store images, email, and other data which needs to be retained, I have used the same method for years using patition magic, on all other OS's with no problems.

However when I reinstalled vista I find the second partition has been deleted, is there anyway of recovering the data in the second partition? as I guess the space ocupied by the second partition has not been over written, or does vista just format the entire drive regardless of any partitions created.

Remove Partition

rockin42nite — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:23:25 GMT

So I tired to do the dual partition on my system with XP a n d Vista, but it didn't work when i called the manufactur of my laptop they said that wasnt possible so now i want ot delte the partition but i cant figure out how ot do it can anyone help?