I'm new to the forums and the reason im Posting is i have a older (2004) Modle Alienware Laptop computer witch i upgraded to Windows Vista Ultimate.
Eveything is working great thus far except after the install my DVDRW Drive witch is a SlimType DVDRW SOSW-852S ATA Device. it dose show up in my computer if i insert a disk it dose not tell me what hte disk is and dose not boot the disk. I can hear it spinning. the Drive dose show up in my BISO aswell. it can also boot from the vista CD and Format and Re Install windows Vista ( i tried to boot XP Pro and no luck on hte drive working) i called alienware they said it MIGHT be a incompatable hardware issue.. Any ideas on this would be great i have read meny fourms on this issue with this drive and they all seemed to just not work in or out of the windows OS but mine DOSE work outside the OS.
Vista stopped recognising my DVDRW some time ago. I think it was after installing sp1. This is a known issue, dealt with under but after having tried the fix and having already restored recognition of my DVDRW drive I now find that I am back to square one. Vista won't recognise my DVDRW drive again. This time I can't use the fix - which involves deleting lines from a registry subkey - as they are already removed. I would be very grateful for any advice or ideas on how I can tackle this.
My CD/DVD drive (optical drive?) is not reading anything i put into it! It makes the same sounds that it always makes when I insert a new CD, but then nothing happens. It does not ask if I want to open it in Windows media player or any other program. So I tried opening all my programs manually, but still it does not show that anything is in the drive.
My dvd drive tells me that there is no disk in the drive when there is. I was trying to place a movie in to watch and it would not pick it up. It made all the sounds as if it was trying to read it but it could not. when i try to press on the drive to open it a window pops up telling the drive is empty when it is not. Every once in a while a small disk thing on the mouse will come up for a moment then leave, but still not reading the disk. I tried to go to device manager and uninstall then reinstall. i tried another disk and still it does not work.
The motherboard on my old computer died. Hard drive was still OK, though. Have put it in an external HD enclosure and hooked it up to the new Gateway - running Vista. I don't have the disks for Office XP, it came pre-installed and I purchased it, but no longer have the product key. I do NOT want to upgrade to Office 2007, I want to use the Office XP I paid for, and was happy using. I can't transfer programs using WET or WETC - at least, I haven't been able to figure out how to do it, with both drives connected to the same computer. How can I configure Vista to run my the copy of Office XP currently installed on my old HD?
Do you have to have XP fully installed on your computer before to install upgrade Vista? Can you in install Vista on a blank Hard Drive and then when Vista asks for XP just put your XP CD in and then continue with Vista. That way you don't have to over lay Vista with XP which is just more garbage on your computer.
Following an unfixable error with the Vista Backup & Recovery program I've decided that my first Vista installation has reached the end of its natural life.It was an upgrade from XP Home Edition (which came with the PC) to Vista Home Premium on the original C partition. Not ideal, but now I would like to start afresh with a clean install.I have purchased a second faster SATA2 drive, which I have partitioned in two: G drive with 58.5GB (intended for the new Vista installation), and Z drive with 238GB to which I will copy all my data before the reinstall. The drive is formatted as a basic disk and both partitions are NTFS primary partitions (I found previously that Vista install doesn't accept dynamic disks for the OS partition).As my copy of Vista is an upgrade, the reinstall has to be initiated from within the existing Vista installation for the key to work.
My question - will Vista reinstall cleanly onto the G drive without problems? I have found that the install commences properly (I quickly stopped it from proceeding as it was only a test). My concern is that the migration could fail half way through if the machine reboots and doesn't know which disk/installation to boot to!Anybody with experience of this scenario? Also, if it does install correctly onto the G drive, am I right to assume that the original C drive partition on the old drive then becomes inaccessible? (Hence the need to copy files across before the install attempt).
I have XP Home (32bit) in finnish. Can I buy a Win 7 UPG (in finnish) and upgrade to 64bit in the same process? I know I have to make it dual boot, as I wouldn't have a printer under 64bit Win, as Canon fails to provide 64bit drivers for most of their stuff, like my LBP-2900
I have full version of windows Vista Ultimate installed on a 250gig Western digital hard drive and I want to upgrade to a 500gig Seagate, reformat the 250gig and move it to another older xp machine and am not able to find any info on how-to-do this procedure of moving all the contents from the 250 to 500.
Ive been using my 500gb hitachi hard drive for along time now and its just about full, i have a new 1TB hard drive which is also more powerful.M Does anyone know how i can transfer all the contents from my old 500gb hard drive onto this new 1TB hard drive, as its running slow with only half a gb free space on it. I want to sell my old 500gb hard drive after i have transfered all my data from it to my new one.
I did a search and found nothing, but here it goes anyway.
I am running Vista Ultimate x64 and this was a fresh install about 1 month ago the OS runs great have not had any problem with it except for this.
I have a LiteOn DL DVDRW-SHW-160P6S the drive works fine when I insert any regular cd, it burns dvd's and cd's just fine it will just not read any preformated dvd's such as games or movies.
I have tried several deferent burning softwares but it does the same. This has to be a problem with Vista x64 I am sure, I took the drive out and placed it in my other system running vista x32 and it works perfect so it has to be something with Vista x64.
Also I took the DVD drive from my vista 32 system and put into the vista 64 and it did the same thing.
My Vista Business desktop seems to have stopped reading cd's and dvd's and also not writing them. it is ever since i formated it from ultimate. i've tried with and internal IDE and an external USB Drive. i know the external works perfectly as i have used it on an XP laptop. i've also tried with burnt and non burnt discs such as the Sims cd's
After the last windows update, all the mail in my in box is automaticly deleted after I read them. Some of the e-mail I may want to return to and they are not in any other folder.
I have a Toshiba A100 laptop with vista home premium installed on it. I am trying to burn DVD disks on my laptop, and when i insert a disk it says i don't have a disk in the drive and i should input one. I tried several DVD disks, including a rewritable one. I looked at a similar Toshiba laptop, and it does write DVD disks.
I don't know how long i've had this prob since, i use this option very rarely. Is there a way to fix the DVD drive without replacing it? and keeping reinstalling windows as last option ? (I'm not sure reinstalling will help). The drive does read DVD disks that have something on them. The drive does burn CD type disks
I just bought a copy of "Windows Vista Home Premium" Yesterday. Went home, and clean Installed it. (Yes, i wiped my data before hand. Backed up all my drivers, etc.) Things were going really well, until I try to connect to the internet and no dice. So I thought, ‘hey ok, I’ll just go throw my back up CD in, update the drivers.’ No dice. So I called around. I was told to plug my internet directly into my PC tower, etc etc. And nothing. They didn't know what to do, as usual, so I thought I would try to reset my modem and reinstall my internet. I have Verizon DSL. When I started the installation, I was told that My computer didn't have an Ethernet card, or whatever, and to try to connect using a USB cable. I know that whatever is up with my computer, can't be extremely bad.
This is ridiculous really. Before I wiped my hard drive, about Six hours before installing vista, everything worked. My internet ran on this computer, and the two laptops that are in the household are also STILL running with internet connection now. I can't find any drivers that are actually compatible with vista. And I’m sick of looking for a stupid Internet card model number on the inside of my tower. I actually had to use a little mirror to find the numbers because the card was that close to the side of the tower. But what I managed to find was "537epg". I try to look that up. Thought I finally hit gold, and found out that this download had been deleted from the manufactures database.
This is the strangest thing I've seen. Burned a DVD ROM of pics and videos on my laptop (Inspiron 9300) running some form of DLA Software and it worked just fine. I can read them just fine on my laptop. Stick them into a vista machine and the disc reads but 1/2 the files are gone and it's consistent - not a disc read error - There are no videos - there are missing pictures. It's as if the VISTA drivers are incomplete... anyone hear of this symptomology and have a fix?
yesterday I received several attachments in Windows mail and was able to open them and print out the attached .doc which was written in a microsoft word program. Today.....when I try to open the same documentattachments it is a BLANK page.
'Microsoft Office Word' "This file could not be found Try one of the following *check spelling of document' *try a different file name'
I keep getting a message that I have 'unsent' email and would I like to send it......WHEN I check to see what is in the 'outbox' the message is blank??
I started a file copy from one drive to an other using Total Commander, then I cancelled in the middle of the operation. However, when I checked in the Resource Monitor svchost.exe was still reading the file for an other ca. 5 minutes with Background Priority, so the speed was only 15-20MB/s, but still annoying... What could cause this? ImageBam - Fast, Free Image Hosting and Photo Sharing
I have been reading a website called Butterflies & Wheels for many months. Suddenly I cannot contact it, I get an error message by 'Bad Behaviour' telling me I have a virus or something. I have Norton and I dont think I have any viruses. I suspect that 'Bad Behaviour' is reliable, and is finding something suspicious on my registry. The Bad Behaviour page has an automatic removal option for the problematic entries.
I just got a new laptop with vista a few months ago. Everything ran smoothly until recently when I went to turn it on and got an error message that???s repeated ever since. It shows the black 'vista' page, the screen turns black, and after a while a box pops up reading; 'window error recovery' A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. It suggests I launch startup Repair. However when I do so it says "startup repair cannot repair this computer automatically."
I've tried going into system recovery options and using system restore to a date when it was working correctly, but it seemed to have no effect. I haven???t changed any hardware or software recently, and the only thing plugged into it was the power cord. I'm afraid I'm not very tech savvy, but I don't want to give up on a brand new computer!
I deal with megatons of PDF docs e.g. datahseets, manuals, etc. It's mostly text. As I've been doing computers for decades & health is my priority, not something in "background" I have SUPER healthy environment such as all-black background, silver-colored fonts, no distractions/graphics, brightness at zero, contrast at comfortably low setting which is in hardware + nVidia videodriver, my graphics is 512MB nVidia GeForceMobile. It's too long to explain but everything is as good as it gets.
The bright ideas don't arrive into your head in the office, in bright light while a bunch of people swarm around, you can hear peeing in the toilet, PHONES, etc. I use earplugs 34NRR rating, blue things that far exceed so-called noise reduction headphones (which are a ripoff).
Do you kno whwere bright ideas get born? In a park, woods, the bench, MY CAR - the best, I sit alone in total silence, no cellphones, no dorks of my neighborhood - I just drive out to s State/National Park and that's where I work on complex problems. I need all these PDF's with me. Printing is not an option you obviously understand. One Datasheet for Microchip PIC18F4420 is 421 pages, and I need like a dozen of things of this sort with me.
I upgrade my notebook to Vista and the video drive automatic installed by Vista is RADEON XPRESS 200M (WDDM), version 7.14.10.8333. When I try to install the version 8.5 (from the ATI site) nothing happens. If I force to install the new drive, Vista Update still inform the best drive is the older, and the CCC (Catalyst control center) still not installed.
Windows mail deletes my mail after reading and closing the program. I have Kaspersky internet security with the spam blocker disabled. This started yesterday two days prior to this I installed SP1
I have a Aspire AM5620-E5301A Acer computer. On Acer it has Windows Vista Premium Home. I bought Windows Ultimate software to put on my Acer computer. It starts to load up OK, put in the key number in than next step is. To pick custom install or upgrade install, but upgrade choice is grey out. It is disable from using the upgrade choice, I want to choose to pick. I did not purchase Windows Ultimate through Acer anytime upgrade option. It was a store bought software it was cheaper than Acer price they offer. What is the problem with installing Ultimate with Acer computer?
I am Using Vista Ultimate 64. I would like to tranfer my entire drive incuding all files and the Operating system From my current IDE HDD to a new SATA Drive of the sames size (500 Gig) I need the IDE Drive for an older computer ( The 40 Gig IBM Deathstar still functions great, but all programs seem more bloated these Days)
Anyway I went to Administrative Tools and Formated the New Drive NFTS with no Drive Letter. But I cannot get it recognized as a transfer device when I go to system backup. Can I use 'C' on the second and soon to be only drive? If I have to use E or F for now can I change it back later. would that affect the file system? I intend to Low level Format the IDE and try cloning the old machine's XP Drive (32 bit) to it in the second place.
I have been trying to upgrade from Windows XP Tablet Edition to Vista Ultimate on my Travelmate C300 laptop. I have found the following error file after the install fails in the location: C:$WINDOWS.~BTSourcesPanther. The file is called: setuperr.log. The content is quite long but i will post it here - advise how i can upgrade to Vista?.................
