Delete Vista And Install Xp Pro Sp3

May 8, 2009

I have a compaq presario v6000 notebook with vista preinstalled and i want to delete vista and install xp pro sp3.

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VISTA OEM Install: Install Of Vista Instead Of Using The Recovery Disks

Feb 28, 2009

I have hp laptop with Vista Home Premium (OEM) installed. I've made Recovery Disks using the Recover Manager. I wish to have a clean install of Vista instead of using the Recovery Disks. I've read previous threads but I have to say I am only getting more confused.

- Can I perform clean install of my Vista OEM?
- Can I use any copy of Vista OEM cd and use the Product Key sticked behind my laptop?.........

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Unable To Delete Partition For Fresh Install

Sep 12, 2009

I am having some problems with my drivers so I am trying to delete the partition on the operation system drive and do a fresh install, operating system and drivers. However, no matter what I do I cannot get my computer to boot from the windows vista DVD so I can delete the OS partition. Here is what I already tried:

- My BIOS is set to boot from CD ROM first

- I have tried both DVD drives

- I verified that the DVD is good by trying it in a different computer where it will boot from the DVD drive

- The DVD drive works because I can initiate installation from the DVD drive. But since it isn't on start-up, I cannot delete the partition and all the drivers.

How do I get this dang computer to recognize this DVD on boot?

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Install Directly (x86) Eventually Uninstall And Delete

Sep 19, 2009

Is there any reason for me to install a program to the other program files, or is it there just to provide stability? Im trying to figure these 2 out, and really I would perfer to only have 1 program files, just so I dont get them confused. Is there any way to have every program I install go directly to (86), and eventually just uninstall and delete everything in the original program files?

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Check The Memory For Errors BEFORE I Load/install Windows Vista Home Premium X64 To Avoid Install Hang-ups

May 25, 2008

I would like to check the memory for errors BEFORE I load/install Windows Vista Home Premium x64 to avoid install hang-ups. Can you make an ISO CD of this program, load it in your CD/DVD drive and check your memory for errors? I recently updated the BIOS on the board (DP35DP) and it does show all of the 4GB of Kingston ValueRam PC800 1.8v (2x2gb) installed. I have good reason to believe that it's from a respectable manufacturer. Just want to make sure the memory is good before I load up the OS.

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Delete Folders Which Vista Says I Don

Apr 21, 2009

I have several folders on one of my drives which I cannot delete. Vista responds that I don't have permission, yet I am logged in as the administrator with full rights.

1. Folders are not in use.
2. They are on an external 750GB USB-2 based drive (NTFS).
3. I also tried to delete them from an XP based system to no avail.

How can I get rid of these folders? There must be a simple way to do this without having to mess with the permissions. After all, I am, supposed to have "god rights". That is, I am the administrator of my home system with full RWMD rights.

Computers used:
Main computer: Vista Business SP1 (x32)
Laptop: XP Home SP3 (x32)

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Why Does Vista Delete All Restore Points

May 29, 2009

A customer has been hit with the "Startup Repair" loop issue. The Startup
Repair cannot repair the problem and shuts dow the computer, no restore
points are available and "Last known good configuration" are useless. The
computer needed to be recovered from the recovery partition.

After recovery and purposely setting several restore points manually I
thought I was finished with all updates and such so I set my final restore
point. I uninstalled an application that was not needed any more and on the
next reboot I got a BSOD. Startup Repair was the option so it ran thru its
paces and gave the message that it could not repair the issue and so I
attempted to do a system restore to the last restore point I created before
this happened. Vista reported again that I had no restore points (I know I
manually create 5 of them). So this time "Last Known Configuration" did
work. I went to chech the restore points and sure enough ther were none.

Why did Vista delete my restore points?

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Reinstall Vista: Delete The Files

Mar 24, 2009

I want to reinstall vista, if i choose the option 'install clean copy vista' will it delete the files i have in my harddrive?

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Delete All Trace Of Vista Black

Oct 12, 2009

Talk about angry i return from a 3 week break @ Egypt and still feeling down i find my son has ver installed my Vista Home Basic which was working fine b4 i went away with what he said he didn't know a pirate version of Vista black edition. Knowing i would be most angry i now find i cannot go back to my old version any help on what i can do to

1) Delete all trace of Vista Black

2) Get my old operating system back

the vista basic disk when installed only gives me to options reboot and some other at the bottom which is no good

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How Do Find Delete Temp File In Vista

Feb 13, 2010

How do you find and delete the temp files in Vista. Not the temporary internet files, just the temp files that are not needed.

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Vista Copies Files Delete The Original

Apr 9, 2009

Whenever I try to move any file or folder to another place other than the recycle bin, the file is copied, making me have to delete the original.

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Transferring From Xp To Vista Using Easy Transfer Dose All This Delete Stuff As Well

May 31, 2008

This is probably a very simple question, transferring from xp to vista using easy transfer, over the years theres been a lot of stuff duplicated and deleted on my xp machine. I believe all these deleted copies and all the other deleted stuff stays on the computer, just not visible. Does esay transfer transfer all this deleted stuff as well,and if so is there anything special I should do to my xp machine to stop these copying. Don't want to fill the vista before i've used it with deleted stuff.

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Deleting Remnants Of A VISTA Search, Delete Browsing History Completely From A Pc

Apr 7, 2009

I want to delete my browsing history completely from a pc. I had done all the usual, tools, internet options & delete. I have also used the Vista search function and found a couple of folders containing relevant material and deleted those. I have deleted the cookies manually by unhiding the directory and sniping those out. HOWEVER, if I type the name of a site into the VISTA search - a string of references appear above - as if they are still in the browing history - but they are not as I have deleted them. Is there some other reference I need to delete somewhere? perhaps some sort of shadow directory structure? The references appear as http// etc above - but these do not lead anywhere if I click on them. They must be embedded in some some sort of script somewhere.

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Having Two Copies Of Vista On One Computer: Install Vista On The Smaller Drive, Boot With That, And Access Files On The Other Drive

Dec 25, 2008

Right now I have a single 640 gig HDD that everything's on. I've got a laptop too that I'm gonna be taking out on rotations eventually. I wanted to get a new smaller (250GB) HDD and put my Vista on that, so my 640 will be data only (then I could take it with me in an external enclosure and leave the desktop for my mom to use til I come back and collect it). I was gonna DBAN the 640, but I wanted to get the data off of it first- about 170 GB of stuff that I'd rather not lose.

My question is-

Can I install Vista on the smaller drive, boot with that, and access files on the other drive? Would it work if there's another Vista running on the other drive? (both SATA).

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Install Sp1 On Vista

Jun 2, 2008

Is anyone having any problems after installing sp1 on vista?

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I Can't Install Vista 64 Bit

Mar 23, 2008

I have Vista Ultimate upgrade. I'm currently running Win 2000. Obviously I can't install Vista 64 bit from this OS so I'm following the instructions here which says you can boot from CD to install Vista 64 however the previous operating system must not be removed prior to install. In my system Win 2k is on a different hard drive than the one I'm installing to. When I start the install process, on the screen where you select the custom option, it says that upgrade is disabled. I assume this means it did not detect my previous OS? I can install my Win 2k on the hard drive where I wish to install Vista. In the past however, when I had the previous OS on the C: drive and I installed
Vista on the same drive Vista would end up on the next available drive letter (i.e. E. Nothing really wrong with this but it's kind of awkward and can't be changed later.

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Vista OS Want To Install Dos 6.22

Feb 15, 2010

I have vista operating system on my laptop. I want to install DOS 6.22 as well. Can I do that? Or is there any way to run it in my laptop?

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Cannot Install Vista 64 Bit

May 13, 2008

I have Vista Ultimate 64 bit. I install this program (Shipping Assistant) and it will not open (however the previous version worked fine). I get this error:

Description:
Stopped working
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: shippingassistant.exe
Problem Signature 02: 3.3.21.0
Problem Signature 03: 48230c97
Problem Signature 04: System.Data.SqlServerCe
Problem Signature 05: 3.5.0.0.............

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Jun 25, 2009

I have Vista Ultimate x64bit and trying to install SP2 Standalone onto my Dell latitude E6400 and is telling me to install SP1 first, but SP1 is installed. Did anyone have simular problem, or suggestion on how to solve this issue? besides installing OS with SP2 included. I googled the S_it out of it, but no go.

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Vista Dvd Will Not Install

Feb 13, 2009

when i try to reinstall vista i get this error. i bought and installed a new hdd and want to install vista on it. when i try to boot (turning comp on with vista dvd in drive) with vista dvd i get no boot device found. also when i run f2 setup at boot i don't see my dvd or cdrom.

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Oct 8, 2009

Can anyone tell me the best and easiest way to re-install Vista which was pre-installed on my PC when purchased. I'd like to re-install because of performance problems. I have the business edition.

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UNABLE TO INSTALL VISTA X64

May 14, 2009

I am experiencing a whole deal of difficulty running a clean install of vista ultimate x64.

Now upon install it seems to boot fine and get into the initial install setup of keyboard type (US etc...) and the selection of the OS, I select my HDD to install vista on and the installation goes away copying files and extracting files ... then upon the reboot to setup the rest of windows this is where it all goes terribly wrong, i have had several different errors and BSODs examples are below:

0x0000001a
0x00000024
0x00000034
0xc0000005
iqrl_not_less_or_equal
CACHE_MANAGER
BAD_POOL_HEADER

Now i have researched all the errors i have had show up and can define nothing in common with them all, I have removed the X-FI creative sound card, wireless kbd and mouse and gone back to basics, i have checked all my hardware and it IS compatible with x64 but still no luck.

My system consists of:

M/B - PN5-E SLI
PSU - Thermaltake tough power 1100W
CPU - Q6800 quad core
PGU - EN8800GTS x2
ram - 1G x4 kingston ddr2
HDD - WD 500G

i can get no replication of the error it just goes mental on the initial reboot after installing windows, and then reboots over and over, sometimes it gets further and gets back into windows but then i just get told the pc rebooted unexpectedly or the install was interupted to reboot and reinstall, i have tried to repair the half install but still no resolve (the even weirder thing was i tested vista ultimate x86 (32-bit) and all installs fine.

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VIsta SP1 Fails To Install

Jun 17, 2009

Vista Ultimate - Win SBS R2 Domain member Symantec Anti-virus Corporate edition ISA firewall client. I have 2 vista systems on my small home network. I tried the push update of SP1 and it failed and I tried the downloaded SP1 and it failed with the usual error codes. I wnet through KB947366 and actually got the long install but it failed in pass 3. My other system had no problems and is at SP2. Both vista systems have nearly the same applications and both are domain members.

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Unable To Install Vista's SP2

Jun 3, 2009

I have been unable to install Vista's SP2. Otherwise, the system runs fine and all previous updates have been installed. Will the system be lacking something if I just continue with normal updates?

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Mar 23, 2008

Can you do a clean install of vista and install SP1 right away or do you have to get some updates from WU prior to installing SP1?

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Drivers Need Before Install Vista?

Dec 1, 2008

Im currently running XP and Ubuntu, however I will be installing Vista x64 in the next few days instead of XP. What I need to know is what drivers I will need to get before I install Vista? Should I get all the drivers now and put them on a cd for when Vista is installed or shall I just install them when Vista has installed? Im not sure what the best way to do it is?

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Vista Not Install If More Than 2 Megs

Mar 23, 2008

64 bit Vista will not install if more than 2 megs of memory is installed. Must install over 2 megs of memory after 64bit Vista is installed.

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Vista Wont Install

Mar 16, 2009

vista won't installation issue resolved

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Install Software Won't Run On Vista And XP

Jan 7, 2009

it possible to install XP and Vista on one hard drive..let me know if it is and how to install it because some of the software wont run on Vista...

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Vista Wont Install, Rebooting

Mar 26, 2008

Last night i tried to install vista, but after loading the disc in and rebooting, it went through the windows is copying files bar with the black background, then it went to the green vista loading bar, then it went to a blue/green background with a mouse cursor and said installing windows. I left it there for an hour, and it didnt change. I then rebooted into XP, and ran the installer from windows, where i selected which drive to install to, and then it copied and expanded the setup files. It then rebooted, and after the
vista load bar it went to a black screen with a mouse cursor. i left it there for an hour and no change. Ive got new hardware in my computer, and after running the vista compatibility tool it said i'd have no issues running any version of vista. I was trying to install Home Premium btw.

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Vista Premium SP1 + Install Games

May 14, 2008

So when I first bought my Gateway laptop it came with Vista premium, and sure it looked all nice and shinny, but once I tried to install my games and play them I got punched in the face by Microsoft. I got horrible frame rate with ALL my video games. Of course I researched if my games were compatible with Vista.

I know its Vista that makes my games run like crap cause just a month ago I installed XP on my top and got perfect frame rate with all my games. The only reason I went back to Vista is because I couldn't find all the proper drivers for my laptop with XP since its built and only supports Vista. It makes me cry a little inside cause my girlfriend has a Gateway laptop with worse system specs, yet she gets alot higher frame rate cause she uses XP, QQ.

So now comes to my topic; After all the research I did and tricks I tried to improve performance I heard, this was months ago btw, that there wa a service pack coming to Vista that would improve performance. So after hearing that and getting all hyped up I waited and waited... So now we come to today. I just installed SP1 and was kinda excited!

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