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RE: Uninstalling Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

WAW8 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:17:58 GMT

Have only seen two situations in which this was easily corrected.

1) 4 RAM sticks. If it's a pre-SP1 version of Vista, it may not install with 4 sticks of RAM, especially if they total more than 2GB. Have to remove two sticks and retry.

2) If it's an IDE drive, some folks still use 40-pin cables instead of the new 80-pin. But I believe you said your drives were SATA, so that shouldn't matter.

The only other thing that comes to mind is that the DVD is scratched.

RE: Uninstalling Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

sfzab — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:34:55 GMT

After running GParted Magic and deleting the prior Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit partition to install then Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit the following message appeared onscreen at a certain point

The installation was cancelled
Any changes that were made to your computer during the installation process will not be saved.

Install Windows
Windows cannot open the required file D:\Sources\Install.wim. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x800700D

.......................................................................................................................................................................................................OK

Can the error 0x800700D be corrected?

RE: Uninstalling Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

sfzab — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:36:50 GMT

[quote][b]WAW8 (6/23/2009)[/b][hr]If you tried running GParted from a Linux version LiveCD, was the CD able to detect the drives? OR did you try running GParted from inside SUSE?

Either way, your best bet is to download and burn a GParted LiveCD or a Parted Magic Live CD (both available from distrowatch.com), boot with either of those, and use those to remove the Windows partition.[/quote]

On the Asus M3N-HT Deluxe Series motherboard with an AMD AM2+ 7750 Dual-Core processor that I am using the GParted screens will run well up to this one:

Which mode do you prefer?
(0) Continue to start x to use GParted automatically

(0) 0 {[b]enter[/b]}

Then an error message appears onscreen that reads:

74.5 KHZ / 59.6 HZ
FREQUENCY OUT OF RANGE
TRY OTHER RESOLUTIONS

The monitor is a 15" KDS USA CRT.

Fortunately, Parted Magic 4.2 (2009) does not present the above problem. I did not have any kind of problems navigating through the different icons that it has.

Thank you very much for your valuable advice.

RE: Uninstalling Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

WAW8 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:58:09 GMT

If you tried running GParted from a Linux version LiveCD, was the CD able to detect the drives? OR did you try running GParted from inside SUSE?

Either way, your best bet is to download and burn a GParted LiveCD or a Parted Magic Live CD (both available from distrowatch.com), boot with either of those, and use those to remove the Windows partition.

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.