Incomplete Installation Disk Manager Not Work
Feb 6, 2009
I have Vista Ultimate x86 on my main harddrive. Yesterday I tried to dual boot the beta of Windows 7 on my secondary harddrive which is clean. During the final steps of the installation, I had an electrical shortage. My installation of Windows 7 was incomplete on my second harddrive. Now when I try to open my computer, booting into Vista on my main drive is very slow and has limited functionality. Opening "My Computer" and the Vista disk manager does not work so I cant format the harddrive in question. However when I disconnect that harddrive from my computer, Vista loads fine. So if anyone can give me solutions for formatting my harddrive without having to log into Vista that would be great.
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Dec 15, 2009
I originally had Windows Vista Home but Business was all he had so that is what I tried using, both 32-bit. I deleted all files thinking I would just be able to install it and get it over with. So now I do not have any operating system installed. Everything works fine up to the point where it restarts and I get to
the Completing Installation (Last step) and it will run for a while on that point and the screen will flicker twice and after a moment the computer will lockup and then it will not go any further. The computer I am using is an Acer Aspire 5515.
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Mar 26, 2008
i have a legal vista ultimate license unused on any machine and NOT OEM. i would like to install vista ultimate 64 on a new laptop. it came preinstalled with home premium 32 (the T7500 processor so it can take 64bit) i would like to create a custom install disk containing the OS and the HP vista 64 drivers. I would also like if possible to include some of the pre installed bloatware (I know, I know, I dont want MS works or norton, but I would not mind the HP help system and the system monitors and system update etc).
I have created a recovery disk which contains 6 or 7 .wim files each about the size of a CD. I presume the windows (home premium) as well as all the bloatware and drivers are included in these image files. I installed the WAIK and tried to use to GUI image manager (or whatever it is called) to mount the files but could not. I was able to dir using imageX command line, but was unable to mount the image file or files using imagex /mount rw if i could somehow accomplish this maybe i could build a custom image file with the ultimate 64 and drivers and etc/ I guess an alternative is to use vlite, and HP vista 64 drivers that I download
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Mar 23, 2008
I read there is a performance boost with raid -0, could this be true? I am interested in setting up a 4 drive riad -0 in vista anythoughts? And will VistaBusimess Disk Manager use 4 drive in raid 0.
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Oct 17, 2008
Well tragic few days for me... First my samsung dvd drive (sh-s223f) failed to read any sort of media, i tried all the fixes i could find and now its being RMA to scan. So i replaced it with an old IDE drive and all was good, everything worked fine, the second time i turn it on after replacing the drive it says bootmgr or whatever is currupt, so i loaded in my install DVD, (OEM btw) went to do a repair install for startup repair, it found nothing wrong, even though 5 minutes previous it had told me this was wrong. So i tried a few more times, finally bit the bullet and loaded up Ubuntu as live cd, got any files and programs backed up that i needed. Went to do a clean install of Vista assuming that would work, and it failed. Got an error number and explanation saying that bootmgr is missing! So now my CD is worthless what should i do? Will microsoft replace it? Would the company i bought it from replace it? So yeh where should i go from here? All i can assume is the broken drive did something to the disk when i did a fix recommended to me.
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Feb 10, 2009
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Apr 25, 2008
I have the regular Vista installation DVD, and I have downloaded the full SP1 file (which I installed, BTW). How can I create a "slipstreamed" Vista SP1 installation DVD (equivalent to what was possible with XP)?
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Jun 8, 2009
I'm an instructor for the Hernando Computer Club here in Florida (600+ members). A couple of our members with laptops are having a peculiar problem. Organize > Layout menu for viewing files is incomplete. They have no details pane and no preview pane options available. It just occurred to me that I neglected to find out which version of Vista they are running and I'm wondering if this could make a difference.
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Mar 23, 2008
i have a legal vista ultimate license unused on any machine and NOT OEM. i would like to install vista ultimate 64 on a new laptop. it came preinstalled with home premium 32 (the T7500 processor so it can take 64bit). i would like to create a custom install disk containing the OS and the HP vista 64 drivers. I would also like if possible to include some of the pre installed bloatware (I know, I know, I dont want MS works or norton, but I would not mind the HP help system and the system monitors and system update etc).
I have created a recovery disk which contains 6 or 7 .wim files each about the size of a CD. I presume the windows (home premium) as well as all the bloatware and drivers are included in these image files. I installed the WAIK and tried to use to GUI image manager (or whatever it is called) to mount the files but could not. I was able to dir using imageX command line, but was unable to mount the image file or files using imagex /mount rw if i could somehow accomplish this maybe i could build a custom image file with the ultimate 64 and drivers and etc/ I guess an alternative is to use vlite, and HP vista 64 drivers that I download, but I dont know if this would give me the system monitoring tools
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Apr 11, 2010
Bought a Toshiba Satellite A100 from ebay with a cracked screen. I changed the screen yesterday, and the laptop worked well with no problems. Then today I decided to do a fresh installation of Vista because of all the previous owner had the hard drive in a bit of a mess. I installed using my normal Vista Anytime Upgrade disk and as soon as it finished installing I started getting all these messages like "Windows Modules installer has stopped working", "Desktop Window Manager has stopped working" and "TFncKy has stopped working". Things I've tried include reinstalling Vista from another disk. Using a different hard drive, changed the ram, installed all the proper drivers, installed vista updates (won't let me install SP1), staring at it menacingly & banging my head off the desk.
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Jul 9, 2009
Recently I had problems with my windows vista so i made a new one but now everytime i turn my laptop on, the windows boot manager comes up with two options, Microsoft windows vista or Microsoft Windows vista. The first one is the old one which doesnt work so everytime i turn my laptop on i have to press down to highlight the new vista option. Does anyone know how i can get rid off this boot manager so my laptop loads straight up to the new vista option.
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May 3, 2008
I have a need to install 4 systems of Vista on a single machine (4 partitions of my main system hard disk). Given that Vista always seems to see its own system drive as C, would it be possible to create my "master image" with SP1, all my drivers, utilities, system tweaks, and other "generic" applications (like Office/Acrobat etc), and then just clone this drive across to all the partitions I need to set up (on D, E, and F). Then, using VistaBootPRO, I could edit the BCD to include all the other partitions. Can anyone think of a reason this would not work?
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Jan 18, 2008
Some program has started to use a lot of CPU cycles during idle. I have a q6600 processor. My logitech g15 keyboard LCD display is showing core 2 (0,1,2,3) to be running constantly at 20-40%. This is unusual. There is very little hard-drive use occurring. I've been running Vista Ultimate x64 since October. This is new behavior. I tried using task manager to find the culprit. That didn't work. This process seems to be preventing the computer from entering sleep mode. How do I find out what's running up my cpu usage? (If I can find it, I assume I can shut it down!)
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Apr 10, 2008
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Mar 23, 2008
I'm not able to make the check disk utility work. I have Vista Ultimate and
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Jun 21, 2008
After contacting hp 5 times disk defrag still does not work on vista. i ran auslogic love it,, but after the $$$ i spent on my computer i want everything to work right. 16 hours and it was still defragging drive c. rann all the diag everything was fine. any ideas out there
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Mar 23, 2008
just changed motherboard to k8n sli platinum but now i cannot use my sata HDD , vista just wont boot when the disk is connected. it just keep on going forever in the boot up screen. but in linux , bart pe and other free dos program, it works just fine. i tried to formate it in all of these OS but still no way to boot in vista, i even cant boot from the vista disk with the HDD connected.
NOTE: i juse an IDE HDD to run my system, so the sata disk is just a storage HDD. if i leave the sata disk without any partition or format ,i can boot up in vista. but when i go to disk manager in vista and trie to formate it in vista, it just freez the program and i got to close the disk manager. but vista still work, next time i restart its back to the same , just staying forever on the boot up screen.
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May 7, 2010
I'm new here, so I'll try not to screw up my post. I have Home Premium Vista, 64bit and 688GB hard drive(size when checking C: drive). I recently checked and it showed less than half full. Then a few days ago I tried saving a file and I got disk full message. I checked the c: drive again and it showed full- no space available, which should not be. I did a defrag, check disk and that did not work. I do remember seeing a warning around that time, but it vanished before I read it all. I think it said a file was not working or was corrupted and may have said something about "Catalyst". I found Catalyst Control Center on my computer, but that seems to be ATI card (graphics card?). I did delete a bunch of junk so it can now function, but latest check still shows only 72 MB available and that can't be.
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Jan 9, 2008
Automatic backup worked fine until December 26 (daily). Since that date it has failed. T'he error code is as follows: Catastrophic Failure, 0x8000FFFF. Also, check disk will not work.
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Jul 15, 2009
I have been playing around with my Vista for some days now. I patched my registry to account for custom visual styles and all. The computer responded fine to all these changes until today. I installed Desktop Maestro 3.0.0.830 which according to the internet is a decent registry cleaner and works with vista sp2.
What I learnt from the net is that desktop maestro will clean registry and will quicken my startup. So i ran it, and it came up with 937 problems in my registry. So the next thing i did was "Repair". and it did just that. But since then my computer hasn't been starting up at all. Before the login screen comes, i get a blue screen, which remains for too short a time for me to read, and reboots.
Turned the computer on in Safe Mode, which worked perfectly. Ran desktop maestro again, and restored the computer to a previous state. This didn't work. it kept saying C: has some errors please check. But the disk check doesnt work.......
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Mar 5, 2009
I am trying to create a recovery disk set that will allow me to image and restore my hard drive, however my last attempt using BARTPE and Driveimaxe xml failed. I was able to backup my hard disk but when i went to restore my partition, I got a bsod. I also tried Acronis home 11 recovery media and it seemed to stall half way through the restore process, backup process wass the same as before. The only way to restore my disk parition is to remove my drive and conect it to an external USB caddy and no problems occur other than it is a little slow and time consuming.
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May 21, 2008
I had been running Vista Ultimate x64 for a few months and recently found that I can only use the original USB mouse?! Installation of any USB mouse would show a new "USB Human Interface Device" in Device Manager but it just won't work. Installation of the very same model of my original mouse didn't work neither. So basically I am stick with the current mouse?
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Apr 28, 2009
Does anybody know exactly what might have happened to require me to use my Vista installation disk to "fix" a Vista boot problem? Here's the situation:
I have five OS installations on one hard drive -- each in a separate partition. When I boot, the Microsoft boot "loader" gives me a choice of "Older Windows Installations" (a separate screen from which I can choose either of two XP Pro installations), Vista 32-bit, Vista 64- bit, and Windows 7 Beta.
Over the weekend I realized I was running out of room in my Vista 32- bit partition, so I ensured all the partitions were backed up individually with Ghost and deleted all the OS partitions but my C: partition (one of the XP installations) using the Windows disk manager. Then I rebuilt and resized the partitions and reinstalled the OSs using Ghost.......................
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Nov 23, 2009
Is it normal for Disk Defragmenter to Analyze the disk AFTER it defragments? I know it does it before and then I click 'Defrag Now' and it proceeds to defrag my hard drive. But today I was watching it and noticed that all of a sudden it stopped defragmenting and the info changed to 'Analyzing disk...'.
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Dec 28, 2008
I have four (4) hard disks C: D: E: F: all are connected with sata cable and power cable.(of course) The F: is outside from the pc and connected via external SATA and power cable (like usb NOT usb) I know,with USB external hard disk i can use the safely remove option.
Is there any option to safely remove SATA hard disk without Shut Down the pc?
1) Start-Control Panel-Device Manager-Disk Drives-Right Click on hard disk-Properties-Policies-UntikDisable the Enable write cashing on the disk??
2) Start-Control Panel-Device Manager-Disk Drives-Right Click on hard disk-Disable??
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Mar 22, 2008
i was messing around with virtual disk programs and made 2 disk drives that are not really there. I can't seem to be able to delete them and its really getting annoying. How can i do this?
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Apr 9, 2008
Is this normal? My disk cleanup shown me a 257GB of files to delete on my 80GB disk. I haven't local network and no external disk. I am using vista home premium with sp1, but this problem was without sp1 too. I attached link (for better understanding) to picture of cleanup.
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Jun 17, 2008
I am a relatively unexperienced windows vista user using windows home premium at 32 bit on an acer aspire 6920 notebook. I noticed that occassionaly my disk space would drop dramatically without me doing anything. 100s of mbs would just disappear for no reason, so probably being stupid i decided to run the disk fragmenter to try and fix the problem. BUT to my horror i was shocked to find that the disk fragmenter began to eat up my hard disk space big style. I went from 79.7GB to 72.5GB in just over an hour. What the hell happened and can it be fixed? can i get my disk space back? i thought the disk fragmenter was supposed to help your computer not rob it. does anyone else have this problem and can someone please help me? im kinda desparate, i cant believe it.
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Mar 29, 2008
My Disk is split into 2 partitions, Vista (C: ) and Data (E, each is about 70 Gb. I do not use the Data partition. I want to delete it and allow Vista(C to use all 140 Gb. The Help pages suggest that if I delete (or reduce the size of) "Data", the free space becomes unallocated? Can I repartition the disk to allow Vista C: to acces all 140 Gb?
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Mar 13, 2009
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