I have installed Win7 64bit on my third (last) partition, because I did not want to update Vista 32 bit. Of course it works well. But still I would like to move Win7 to the first partition, and maybe restore Vista 32 bit to the third partition. I have moved it: it did not work.I restored from a Norton Ghost restore point, and it still will not boot. Repair from the Win7 install DVD cannot fix it. Can it be done?
View 5 RepliesI installed Vista in partition H: so I could dual-boot to XP Pro on C:. Now I'm ready to dump XP and I'd like to move Vista to C:. how to do this without losing anything?
View 9 Replies View RelatedAs a very new Vista user (about 5 hours!) I want to move my Documents folder to another partition. In XP I just right-clicked on My Documents and in the Properties window there was a "move" option. Can't see anything like that in Vista Home
Premium. Is there?
I recently acquired a Dell Studio XPS 435 desktop with Vista Ultimate as the OS. My plan is to upgrade to Windows 7 in the next couple of months or so. Therefore I won't need the Vista recovery partition on the hard drive. I am trying to eliminate it and add to the C: drive partition. Looking at my drive 0 in disk management I have from Right to left a C: partition 683Gb NTFS with the usual Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition). Directly to the left is the Recovery or D: drive which is 15Gb NTFS marked Healthy (Primary Partition) and finally to the left is the last partition of 71Mb marked Healthy (EISA Configuration). No idea what that is. Right clicking in the Recovery partition gives several options including: format, shrink volume, extend volume, delete volume, mark volume as active, change drive letter and paths, as well as help.
My question is how to remove the recovery partition and then extend the C: partition. My first thought is to format the recovery partition, delete the volume and then right click the C: drive partition and extend it but I really need some advice so I don't screw up the whole disk. For instance I have no idea what if anything hapens to the drive letters.I think maybe what I am calling partitions are really volumes so you can see I am over my head here.
i want to extend my system partition on Vista, and my friend Bob told me to use EASEUS Partition Master or Partition Magic, but i dont know which one to choose?
View 9 Replies View RelatedWell for some reason when i wiped my HD clean and tried reinstalling vista home premium i couldnt make a partition until i lowered it to 250 gig. even though when i got it there was 650 gig. So now ive got 400 gig of unallocated space i want to addon to this partition. how would i do that WITHOUT UN installing vista and LOSING my data
View 7 Replies View RelatedI need to make a decision within the next 3 days or so.
I have a new HP XW8600 dual Quad Core with 16GB Ram with ATI 4780HD Toxic GPU and a Raid 5 with Cheetahs T10.
I will almost exclusively use it for Video editing with the Matrox Axio HD Board. To me speed is very important because of long rendering times it sometime take.
Vista X64 is fully supported and tested by Matrox with the hardware I have, so a pretty safe bet. However I have a few friends who are trying to pursuade me into installing Win7 instead, because it supposedly is much faster and since it uses a lot of the Vista engine it still is reliable/stable and it uses the same drivers as Vista X64 .
Where are the Win7 newsgroups hiding?
View 9 Replies View RelatedHaving steadily used Win 7 since the first public I entirely sympathize with those who label it Vista SP3.It is not significantly faster than Vista 64 SP2 on the same hardware and uses the same drivers.It hiccoughs over many of the same obstacles.When a device manufacturer, for example Canon, markets a "new printer" but it uses the same inks as prior generation printers, Canon is doing nothing more than selling the the old print engine in a new box.The reason Win 7 came out so "fast" by Microsoft standards is that mostly they just grafted a tweaked UI onto Vista SP2.Vista SP2 is the engine that runs Win 7: new or old/new?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am running an OEM copy of Vista Ultimate x64. By OEM, I mean I bought the disc that OEM's use to install windows onto a ready built machine. Anyway, I'm eligible to upgrade straight to Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
My questions are, once I have upgraded to Win 7 will it be using a new Product Key? And would I be able to do a clean install of Vista Ultimate on another PC and use the original product key?
I have purchased an Acer Aspire 6930G laptop that came with Vista x86 (32 bit) installed but with a free 'upgrade' to Windows 7 x86. I have a 'desktop' and an update copy of Windows 7 (legit) that came with both 32 and 64 bit disks. I have installed the 64 bit version onto the desktop. I want to install the 64 bit version of Win7 onto my laptop but Microsoft insist they will only provide the 32 bit version as I am 'updating' from a 32 bit version. (seems that they are being simply bloody minded). can I successfully install the 64 bit version (I have the disk) and activate it using the 'key' that will come with the 32 bit OEM upgrade? The possible problem I anticipate is the 32 bit version will be an OEM version whereas the 64 bit disk that I have is of the MS vanilla variety.
I note that the serial number of Vista loaded onto the laptop includes the designator OEM. Does that mean that any key used to register the OS will need to have a similar key, that is including the designator OEM. While I know I will not be abiding strictly to the terms of the license by doing what I want to do, there is no loss to Microsoft. In my opinion I am not denying Microsoft of anything to which they are entitled..
So I installed WI7 RC, I'm not going to mention which build I use it's Ultimate. That much I'll say. Runs all 8 GIGs of my Uber RAM Well I like it. It's not expensive, and you need to know your BIOS well to get Optimal Performance with it, but if you do, and I do. It ROX. Fast as all get out. So I'm just checking it out have it pre-ordered. Waiting on Oct is all. But, then, lets get down to what I wanted to get at, Vista vs WIN7 RC. Which is real close to what the final release will be. So having said that I conclude that I love Vista still, but think I'll LOVE Win7 just as much,. However that doesn't mean that I like everything they did (they= MS Geeks). I don't care for how the wallpaper is hadled in Win7, it involves more steps to just do save a Wallpaper and W7 always wants to call everything a Theme. I don't like Themes, changing background auto pilot yada, yada. I like just what I like, I don't use any stock THEMES at all, and will delete them all. I make a ton of my own wallpapers, and this is FUN for this Monster. For example I made a few Stubbs Walls that I love and use a lot. As I like BRAINS!! Must have BRAINS!! Yum, Yum, BRAINS!!
I also get many from the WEB and my Buds like Muff1n. Think he needs another REP point now that I think of it, myself, could give a Rats A$$ about REP points. Ok that's not really true 100%, I'd like to have a few, but folks are stingy (sp?) with them. IMWHO. Vista Boot time, not to impressed with, but is a slightly longer Boot time a big deal? I suppose if your in some big Damn hurry. which I never am. Life way to short to sweat the small stuff. Furthermore or Moreover which ever you Like. Vista may just be thinking More. I have Vista w/sp2, it's improved a lot since it's introduction. That is not MHO, that is FACT, Jack. LOL 'Nuff Said.One of the mod types here or at the sister Forum Win7, I get them mixed up easy. Anyhow I posted a little tiny thread about a Fee Poster, it was a JOKE, but apparently was not seen as such, Not sure? I can't find it for the Life of me. Is all I know. Then again anything I post here is lost in seconds, I'm surprised this is here while I typewrite.................................
Soon it will be time to name Windows 7 since Vista flunked out. Now if Win 7 is bloated and eats ram then we can name it Oink.
View 6 Replies View RelatedHandy new thing in Karmic (and Win7 doesn't have it out of the box): From the above cited web site: "Store, sync and share Integrated "Ubuntu One" technology gives you 2 GB of online storage for free. Easily share files between your own and your friends' computers. Upgrade at low cost for more storage if you need it."
View 8 Replies View RelatedI think I messed up my hard drive while trying to erase the EISA partition on it. It's a Gateway P7811-FX laptop with a single 200 GB hard drive. Before, I only had 1 main partition: the C: Drive (176.31 GB), along with the hidden 10 GB EISA partition. After making recovery disks, I followed this tutorial: Delete and Remove to Unlock EISA Hidden Recovery or Diagnostic Partition in Vista » My Digital Life
Following that, I went in Disk Management. The hidden partition showed up, but I couldn't extend the C drive to use the unallocated 10 GB, so I converted it to a simple 10 GB volume. Then I used Acronis Disk Director Suite and merged the two partitions. And now, I can't do anything in Disk Management. There's only one partition now (186.31 GB), but when I right click on it, there's no options to create, shrink, delete, or extend the partition. They were there before, but the only option that shows up is Help.
Under Status, it says Healthy (Active, EISA Configuration). I think I merged the partitions the wrong way, so now there's no "System, Boot, Page File..." partition. Everything is on the EISA partition. When I try to run Acronis, the program doesn't load up. I've tried using Diskpart but I can't create any new partitions either.
Do you think if we buy a new machine; M$ will upgrade vista to windows 7 like they did B4 ?
I want a new tower but I want to be sure all bugs are out and maybe M$ will upgrade me.
We have an application which allows to add email accounts to default email client installed in the machine. We are getting the default email client information from the registry. In Win7, the registry entries for Windows mail are present even though the actual application is not usable. Right now I am looking for WindowsMailGadget.exe in Windows Mail folder and if this is present I assume that the installation is
proper? Is there any other way I can figure out that Windows Mail is not completely installed?
Should I move back to Vista Ultimate from Windows 7? I like em both, but can't decided which one to use. Windows 7 does almost everything I want except play a few games, which Vista does. The only problem with both Vista Ultimate and Win7 is that neither likes my onboard surround sound, which Linux detected and had it worked perfectly. I've probably formatted and reformatted this drive over 50 times since I got it in December and I still can't figure out what I want on it. I did tri-boot at one point, but it just got to un-organized I had to stop it.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have downloaded the ISO file for Win7, and have burned an install DVD. My intention is to do an upgrade from Vista SP1, but I'm wondering: What is the simplest (best?) way to revert to Vista, if I have to?
View 9 Replies View Relatedi've got Win7 Server running and i'd like to get a POP3 service running on it -- i can't identify how to do that.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI already have my computer set up to multiboot XP and Vista. I've decided to try out Windows 7. What I have planned to do, is just pop in another hard drive, formatt it, and install windows 7 onto it, leaving my system a multiboot of WinXP, Vista and 7. Now since Win7 is just a beta, I'll not want to leave it on my system when a new RC comes out, it expires, or I purchase the full version.
So my question is, if I install win7 as my 3rd multiboot option, will it be possible to uninstall it at a later date without affecting my other winxp and vista partitions? I'll probably have to run a fix mbr command, right?
i created my partition and burned the iso file. DVD won't do anything from within vista 32, so i restarted and booted from the DVD, it loaded some files and then stuck on a very nice screen for 5 minutes. no activity from the DVD whatsoever. so i pulled the DVD and restarted back into vista 32. will i have to unplug the drive with the current OS until after I get win7 loaded or did i just not wait long enough?
View 8 Replies View RelatedWindows 7 is full of bugs and missing features.Some common hardware which is correctly set up by vista will need drivers and manual interactions in 7. They simply removed a ton of drivers in the 7 DVD. BUG Explorer does not show the new thumbnail, if you have changed,cropped,resized a jpg. you cannot tell which file is newer if you have copies of one and the same file, you need to compare date/time and filesize....
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've got a Hp computer that has Vista Home Premium 64 bit on it and I want to remove the partition D which is the recovery partition. I have factory backup dvd's, made my own backup dvd's and have a True Image of the drive with both partitions, so I think I'm covered. Anyone know how to go about removing the complete partition?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI don't know if this is the place to post this thread so excuse me if this is the wrong group, I saw none that really applied. I'm running Vista SP1 64bit.
I'm looking for a Free Partition program to partition my external hard drive into at least 2 partitions. Does anyone know of such a program that's straight forward without all the bells and whistles? Also, would I set the partitions as Logical or Primary? Currently the drive is a Primary but if I partition it into 2 partitions what should they be?
My C: drive is 1Tb in size (931.43Gb), with Used Space of 73.8Gb and Free Space of 857.65Gb. I want to shrink the C: partition down to 200Gb, and use this just for my OS and App files - I'm running Vista Ultimate 64 bit. This would then leave me with a new partition of c. 750Gb for my data files and documents etc. However, Vista will only offer to shrink the C: partition by around 260Gb as a maximum. It will not allow me to select a larger size than this. I've tried turning off System Restore / Shadow Copies, but this makes no difference. Any ideas why this should be, and what can I do? p.s. I've tried using Acronis Disk Director as well, but whilst I can select a new C: partition size of 200Gb, when the system reboots, nothing has changed, so ADD won't work either.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just wonder if he has been tempered by all the people asking him "what is it with that vista, why did you release it with so many problems?" questions by friends and technical savvy folk. I'm sure he might not be accepting how bad vista is out in the open. but he has a problematic product in his hands.. If we had a way to snoop into what he really thinks about vista, I think it would be a big surprise for fanboys. I'm sure he is wishing vista would just go away... perhaps that's why they are pushing hard to get win7 ready.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am trying to upgrade my Vista system to Windows 7. However, when it checks compatability issues, it tells me I cannot upgrade a 32 bit system to the Win 7 64 bit system. Problem is my Vista system IS 64 bit (AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core @ 3GHz, 4GB RAM, Vista SP2). Anyone know why this is happening, and if there is anything I can do to correct this problem, or do I just return the Win7 package?
View 9 Replies View Relatedthis will save me a lot of time from having to do a clean
install like we were told we would have to do if we are running
Win7RC. I have so many games and apps installed that reinstalling from
scratch takes about 1 week.
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Vista is slower than XP. Win7 boots slower than Vista. Cathy's boobs are too large so she loses balance when walking. My car is too fast so can't stop properly at intersections. neighbor's child is being a child so he screams, and I hate that man... errr child. China id too large. Will you stop complaining & just get a modern computer to run a new OS? Or let's go back to DOS p- sure it can run f-g fast even on coal-powered machine.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have an existing wireless home network for file sharing and what not. It was no trick to get this working with XP. Vista was problematical, but is now working. How can I connect my Win7 to the home wireless network? I've been searching and experimenting for days, with no success. This is not a Home-group solution, since I have but one Win7 machine.
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