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 RepliesHad vista & windows 7 dual booting & then i installed xp pro & lost my dual boot. How can i get it back?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI just purchased a machine with a 64 bit OEM. I have created another partition because I want to install 32 bit on there. However, it is not working so I was wondering if there was something I am not doing right here. I want to use the 32 bit for internet access and itunes and the 64 bit for gaming. I do not have any discs with the 64 bit OS on it either everything I have here is 32 bit.
View 9 Replies View RelatedCan I partition my HD to two partitions, Install my copy of winXP pro on both (its only on one comouter so that shouldnt violate anything) and then upgrade one of them to vista using an upgrade disk? Will both windows work fine?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a pc running win xp media centre mp pc is dual core amd 64 bit 5200+ 2gb ram nvidia pcie 256mb graphics my hard disk is partitioned and xp is installed on the first partition I am trying to install Vista ultimate 64 bit on the second partition.
The vista installation will not complete I get an error when it is completing setup, saying that the pc shut down before installation was completed & the installation can not continue. The pc works fine under XP, are there any known installation issues with a Vista XP dual boot system?
I've just got a new computer with Vista. I want to set up a dual boot system so that I can also access XP.
I have read that this is much easier to do if XP is the first OS, followed by installing Vista, but I can't do that.
I have also read that it can still be done by creating a new partition from within Vista, then installing XP into that. I understand that this process will overwrite the Vista boot loader and the computer will then only boot into XP, but that a programme called VistaBoot PRO can then be used to reset that, and you are then left with dual-booting.
But has anyone had any experience of doing this? Or are there any foreseeable problems.
E.g. - when I start installing XP, will it need access to the motherboard/graphics card drivers?
One thing I'm wondering about is, at the stage where I can only boot into XP, the hard disk is a SATA one (no RAID set up) and I seem to recall XP having issues with these at boot-up?
Dirve 0: Primary Partition for current XP, another Primary Partition for a new install of Vista Drive 1: The data drive. I absolutely must have the data drive, Drive 1, be the D drive. I have a lot of applications that expect to find the data there and I need to switch between the two OS's seamlessly (I am a software developer and testing in both OS's)
I have tried installing Vista twice now and both times the D drive is the XP primary partition. It looks like Microsoft is using the XP partition as the boot partition, even when booting Vista. The XP partition is first, so I am not surprised. What I need is some way of booting up so that the partition that XP is on is hidden, which I know is one of the states a Primary partition can be in. Back in years gone by, I did this with System Commander, but there has to be a less expensive (free) way of doing it today.
I have been playing with Ubuntu guest virtual machine on Vista host.I am toying with the idea of dual booting and installing it properly. Can I run an Ubuntu Live CD on a Vista machine (to check whether all my hardware is compatible, etc) without it affecting my Vista installation in any way ? As I understand it, I will just be booting from the CD without putting anything on my hard disk at all.But I would seek assurance that it really isn't going to do me any harm.
If I decide that my hardware is OK (its a fairly high spec machine running Vista Ultimate 64 bit) what is the best way to go about it? I have a 750Gb disk which I reckon I can afford to give 200Gb to Ubuntu. Should I repartition from windows? Do I need another program (if so what?) or does Windows itself handle this? How do I install Ubuntu but still retain control over which operating system I want to run? Vista will still be my main OS. I don't particularly want ubuntu to have control of the booting process.....
I have had visa and xp in a multi boot configuration. However, decided that I do not need xp any more. I have vista and xp on two physically seperate hard drive. So I used 'Vista boot pro' to delete the windows xp MBR. When I reset the computer it worked fine and their was no option for loading xp. Than I decided to erase the drive that xp was on (not vista), using East-Tec Eraser 2008 to wipe the drive. This took 5 hours as the drive was 100 gb. When it finished I then reset the computer and the screen said 'No operating system found'. I then used the original visa dvd to fix the boot record, however, when I tried there was no record of any operating system. I know that the installation is still there as I saw it using the find driver dialog box.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI normally work in a straight Windows Vista Business environment on my laptop using Ghost 2003 to image my setup (which occasionally causes problems with the image files but that is another issue) - I was trying to setup a dual boot - XP SP3 and Vista SP1 environment with XP as the primary boot partition installed (20 GB) and the rest of my laptop's HDD for Vista (130 GB approx) I got the dual booting done with BCDedit to fix the Boot Manager but after I ghosted the image (successfully), verified the image (successful) and did a test restoration (successful) - I was unable to boot into XP or Vista - XP would complain at NTLDR and Vista at first about WINLOAD and after repairs with my Vista DVD, would BSOD during boot - what did I do wrong and/or how can I fix it?
View 4 Replies View Relatedi am running window 7 and vista. vista is on a 250 hard drive. window 7 is on a 500 hard drive. now to change window i turn my pc off. and change the red cable from drive to drive. now what i like to know is. if i connect the 2 red cable on the 2 drive do i get to choose window on boot up. or do i need a special program to make it work. now it is with 2 drive not a single drive .
View 9 Replies View Relatedis it unheard of to dual-boot Vista x64 on a dual-core computer with x32 on an external drive (same software package)?
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 RelatedDo 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 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 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 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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