I have a Gateway GT5426E which I am trying to down grade to XP Pro. I installed it but it labeled my HD as H instead of C and the labeled the removable media as C,D,E and F. The DVD is labeled as G. I am having problems because some updates are looking for C to install files.
View 9 RepliesI'm trying to make a dual boot system Vista/XP with my HP Media Center purchased in 2007 with Vista pre-installed. Inside Vista I created the partition for XP (disk D and rebooted with the 'XP Pro SP2' inside. After selecting its correct partition for installing it copies all files on hard disk and it reboots in order to start its installation, upon rebooting and starting first time from hard disk, it says that there is an error in the system and stops. If I install only XP on the system it works correctly even though some newest hardware is not recognized. I had already made a dual boot two years ago with a 2007 XP Student Edition and it smoothly. If it is due to the XP version being too old that maybe cannot deal with the boot record created by Vista
Or perhaps such an old XP cannot recognize a boot hard disk that is not C:?
Is there a way to bypass this point (perhaps fixing the boot record) in order to continue correctly the installation?
Thank you,
Al
I originally had Vista Business edition on my laptop and decided to dual boot with XP. So far I created a partition on the same drive (C: ) as Vista and installed XP on it. how do I choose between Vista and XP when my computer boots up? When I turn on my computer it boots straight into XP and doesn't show that menu where it gives me a choice of which OS I want to boot
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View 7 Replies View Relatedjust ordered a new pc that is on its way pre loaded with WIN XP PRO SP2. It also come with a free VISTA BUSSINES upgrade. I want to set up a dual boot system when i get my VISTA disk. should i use partition magic and set up a new partition for vista or is there a better way of doing this
View 2 Replies View RelatedI initially started with XP and created a separate partition for Vista, installing Vista on the other partition, Vista sees the (XP) Earlier version of windows. When I choose XP, I get the following error: NTOSKRNL.EXE is missing or corrupt. If I repair the XP with fixmbr - I end up screwing up Vista. Then when I repair Vista, it end's screwing up XP
View 3 Replies View Relateddoes ne1 know if vista can dual boot with xp no problems yet only wonderin cuz we are very close to vista, and i want it. i cannot use my dorm room internet with vista cuz of bs security shit.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was dual booting XP and Vista but didn't want Vista anymore. So I got rid of Vista, and that's all said and done now. Problem is, the boot loader is still coming up telling me to choose between "Earlier Version of Windows" and "Windows Vista". How to I get rid of it without using Vista's boot manager?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm currently running Vista on a raid 0 array, and want to dual with XP. I have two partitions, one with vista and the other that I tried installing XP on. After it finishes the initial installation and restarts it says to press any key to boot from the CD. I wait without pressing anything and than it says that there was an error reading the disk. If I remember correctly, after it restarts it goes strait into windows setup. This happens every time I try restarting, but I can get back into vista by putting the hard drive to boot first. In vista I can see the other partition where XP was installed, and inside is just a folder titled WINDOWS and it seems like all the windows files are in there
View 5 Replies View RelatedIt had Windows vista in it and she had someone put Windows XP in it. It now has a virus and my friend wants Vista put back in it. I have a cd here that says TOSHIBA recovery and applications / drivers, Satellite A130/ A135 series, Windows Vista Home Basic 32-bit. I put this cd in the rom and restarted. it did nothing. just loaded XP up again.
View 5 Replies View RelatedHi All. My problem is this. I have a legal copy of XP Pro (OEM) installed on this computer. The hardware is very dated (about 6yrs, AMD 1800+, AGP 2, PC2100 ram) and I want to upgrade to new stuff. So being a good citizen I called Microsoft and ask the question, "How do I legally install the legal copy on my new equipment while uninstalling it from the old?" The old hardware is not going to be reused, just to old and slow. Two reps from M$ told me that I could not use my legal copy with the new hardware while one said that I could but had to uninstall it somehow while online so they could verify and activate it for the new stuff. They never got around to telling me how to do that. I take that as a no that they won't allow the 2nd use. So what OS would you choose at the moment? I think I am going to try to reuse the current copy. If that doesn't work I'll repurchase, but which? XP Pro, XP Home, XP 64, Vista, Vista home, Vista 64? I understand that SP1 for Vista has gone into beta so it shouldn't be long to get that. If anyone has some input or experience I would greatly apperciate it. Does anyone think that this is wrong? I'm not trying to cheat M$, as I said it is a legal copy. Any Microsoft employees out there? If I want to reuse a piece of hardware no prob right? Seems to me to be the same thing. Anyway tell me what you think and thanks.
Mike
PS: By the way I use the machine for general purpose computing and gaming which is why I need to upgrade. I have been getting Fragged alot in UT2K4.
Ok well i have 3 days left of my computer (windows xp home edition) due to the fact that i recovered it too many times and used up the serial number, and it costs $100-$200 for a new serial. So should i just get vista or should i just get the new serial?
View 7 Replies View Relatedbuying a new Media Center PC and should I
wait for Vista to be released? Is it better to buy a Media Center PC with MCE
pre-installed by the company or is it better tp buy the CD-ROM when it comes
out and installing it over my Media Center 2005 edition?
I've got a Lenovo X60 Tablet, which came preinstalled with XP. Last year I installed Vista Ultimate (OEM version), but of different reasons I do not want Vista anymore on my PC and want to downgrade to XP Tablet edition. I have now a XP Tablet edition that I want to install, but it crashes just after it have started the process.
PC is turned on, it boots from the USB CD-Rom drive, it starts to install the drivers, but when it comes to where it says "restarting windows", it crashes and gives me a blue screen telling me that the disk can be corrupted, should be checked for viruses etc. etc. This have happened three times now, and now I have been searching the internet for information of how to work around this. I haven't found any good sources yet and hoped some of you guys at this forum could help me out
I have been running windows XP SP3 and have been happy with it. But I was going to go with Vista on the new bulid (I can get it at a student discount) in order to have a 64-bit OS and have better access to memory. But this week's news has me convinced that I should should stick wiht XP until Windows7 comes out.
I do moderate gaming and lots of multitasking (many open windows, ITunes pumping to my home stereo, etc.)
So, here is are my questions:
-Is windows XP 64-bit even available anymore?
- If so, is it worth it to install the 64-bit version? (will the diferences even be noticable?)
ive just brought this pc about a month ago,it had windows vista basic home os,i didnt like it,i installed a copy of windows xp pro on it,everything went on ok,but i am not getting any sound at all,when i go to control panel and look in sound and audio devises it says no audio device!
View 2 Replies View Relatedlast night i decided to format my pc, so i formated it and tried to reinstall vista, the reinstallation worked fine but then it said i had to have a old version of windows for me to activate, because its an upgrade version.i then formated AGAIN and tried to clean-install XP so i could then upgrade to my vista but during my reinstallation of xp it stopped working. this is where it may get confusing haha, after the first part of the xp install it restarts (the first part meaning where it formats and copys all the files to memory) but just after it restarts it comes up with the screen "press any key to boot to CD." i let it go because ur not ment to boot to cd after that, but on that same screen it comes up with a few different coloured boxes on the screen and it just hangs.
View 1 Replies View RelatedCan Vista Ultimate be installed over xp and pick up all the programs in it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just ordered custom parts for a PC I'm building. They'll be here next week.The basic configuration is:
Asus Striker II Extreme
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (3.0 Ghz)
2 x 2GB Corsair XMS 1066
BFG GeForce 9800 GT (1GB)
Western Digital Caviar 1TB (SATA)
I'm gonna using this PC for gaming and video/audio editing primarily + programming/coding/development secondarily.My main concern is should I install Windows XP vs Windows Vista? 32-bit vs 64-bit? Why?
I have heard lots of bad things about vista but not one good thing. Maybe this is because of who i have asked, but i need to find out!
View 3 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know how to install windows vista? are the old drivers compatible with the new OS? i'm runnning p4 3.0ghz 2gigRAM,nvidia graphic card,cmedia 3d audio...i guess there is c with the new Vista OS..how about the anti virus software compatible compatible?
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy first post - I hope this is the right forum, since this is a problem installing XP.
I have an emachines T5088 (full specs are listed below) that came pre-loaded with Vista, but since Vista can't run some of my old apps, I want to load XP onto it from my factory non-OEM XP disc. I booted from the XP disc, and it went through the usual act of pre-loading all the drivers, then when it went to actually start the installation I got a BSoD. Sorry, I didn't have the foresight to document the actual error messages on it. If need be, I can go through the process again to get that info
I was just wondering about using a pre beta 2 release version of Vista (build 53xx)as my main OS.If you say no. I really need to know why? what would happen I mean all my apps should work (32 bit) and assuming.I get the drivers working.
View 11 Replies View RelatedIm downloading right now and since they is alot of trouble on vista its probably not gonna come out for another year or year n half they were gonna resale it summer 2006.
View 3 Replies View RelatedAnyone know where I can get a RC1 download? or a RC2? if it works with a RC1 key.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm hoping someone will be able to help me. A few months ago, I down graded my laptop from Vista to Xp Pro. Since then If I watch a video, or play a game or do anything other than browse the web, my CPU usage spikes and the computer crashes. I upgraded the memory from 2gb to 4, but it didn't help. If anyone can help with this, I'd greatly appreciate it. I was fine with dealing with it before, but it's really starting to get irritating.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have read some of the dual boot options on this forum but I don't need that information, what has happened is that I got a HP Pavilion Slimline s3713w that had a bad hard drive. After getting a used Serial ATA drive to replace the bad one, I formated the drive and installed a good legit version of XP Pro. The install when quick and flawless until I started the computer to check everything out and I had no Lan and no Sound since it is all integrated into the mother board. NEVER being a Vista user I was not aware that you could not down grade to XP. I have read that it can be done but as of yet not found what I need, most people don't get past the install without getting an error message about not detecting a hard drive.I have tried getting the drivers that I need from the HP site under Vista and XP with no luck.
If this Desktop was bigger I would just install a network card and sound card but there are no pci slots available inside this tiny little unit. I am looking for someone that has had this problem and found a way around it. There was no install disk that HP provided with the PC so I couldn't go back to Vista either. I have a nice little computer that just needs some help.
I recently installed the Vista Transformation pack and didn't like it so i uninstalled it.I forgot to remove some parts from the pack so I went under program files and deleted the folders that were related to the program. I think by deleting one of them, I removed the logon screen because everytime I start my computer the logon screen comes up with just the background and no admin or user things showing, just the vista logon background. Is there a way around this so I can get into my computer and restore the folder I deleted?
View 14 Replies View Relatedso now I have this nearly brand new laptop running vista and all its drivers and such were pre-installed on this laptop. I want to wipe the OS off, and put XP (home, pro, I dont care) on as it's replacement. Do I need to download any drivers or should it automatically find them on the internet? also it came with the thoshiba CD that has drivers on it, but will they work for XP?I am running 3gb RAM and some programs running with vista still say Im low on resources.. 3gb RAM should be plenty while running XP right?
View 7 Replies View Relatedtrying to "Home Network" between Windows XP Media Center Edition service pack 3 & Windows Vista Home Premium. The Internet connection originates thru a DSL connection from "Westell" Modem to "D-Link" Ethernet Switch and is functioning on BOTH computers. The file sharing is ANOTHER story--The Vista OS "sees" & shares ALL the files/drives shared FROM XP--HOWEVER, the XP computer ONLY "sees" & shares "Public" & "User" Folders--when I try to access the C-Drive Folder (which I have set up to share like the others, I get the following message: "C is not accessible. You might not have permission to us e this network resource. Contact the administrator of the server to find out if you have access permissions."
I have turned off my Windows Firewall on Vista & have tried repeatedly to allow access to "everyone" regarding the C Drive on the Vista computer--and after a restart the same issue exists.