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Booting Vista on Different PC Computers No label
All 4 notebooks used Windows Vista. The error that I receive when I try to load a program from a CD is "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" I have already gone through the troubleshooting section with no help at all.

Top Ten Reasons to Not Wait for Vista
While I realize that a company has to make money off of a commercial Operating System, surely Microsoft could have worked out a better arrangement. Why not ask people to turn in their old Windows XP serial number when they get their Full Vista DVD and then blacklist that serial number from Windows Genuine Advantage

Dual boot - remove one OS.
I have a Seagate diagnostic program that I have used many times to scan drives, used in the XP system. When I tried to use it in Vista, Vista rejected the program. Drive bad or missing or corrupted boot files. It sure would seem that way. If trying to boot as a USB drive your system might not support that.

Vista: May not innovate, but don't discredit its value....
A logical partition should not be marked active. Your cleanest bet would be to mark the G partition as active and rerun startup repair to put your boot files .... I'm trying to change a drive letter to a partition in Vista using Disk Management. I don't have an OS installed on this partition (nither Vista nor XP),

Are You Ready For Vista™? Microcenter
Saucy Lemon ytr...@asdfgflkjhj.com microsoft public windows vista general And OS X is looking dated. And the silver / white is virtually uncustomizable and has If you move a step up, the $1299 MacBook adds a DVD writer, more RAM and a bigger hard drive. In comparison, BestBuy has Windows (Vista) based Toshiba

Why should a user care about Linux?
If you set the XP drive as the boot drive and then boot the system with the Vista dvd you will get variation of the drive lettering (no real problem) and Colin, He's not in a dual boot situation so each drive is individual. You would have to do this if Vista was the boot manager. Don, Choose which ever OS you

OS stopped working
What the hell.... by looking this up online it could be any number of things at this point, the equivlant of the doc saying i am sick but not telling me what i got. "NTLDR is missing" means you foolishly left a non-bootable disk in either your USB, DVD, or floppy drive when you rebooted. It means "can't find an OS

Dual boot - remove one OS.
You need a DVD drive to install Vista (although there are Home Basic and Business versions available on CD instead of DVD), and you need a minimum of 15GB At first glance, Home Basic does not seem to be missing much, there is partial support for notebook features, Windows Mail, Calendar, the gadget Sidebar and

vista upgrade back to xp
First off there are far more computer professionals that use Windows than use OS X. OS X is actually based on Unix which is older than Windows NT which is the base Late in 2005 I tried out an HP Pentium D with XP Pro on it. After some research I discoverd that XP Pro is 32-bit and would not utilize the extended

Change drive letter 4 a partition that Vista marks as system w
There are sooooo many things missing from Media Center (even Vista) from a European perspective that it is a sad joke. .... Other than XP will become unsupported sooner than Vista I do not see any reason to choose it over XP.The HDCP DRM only comes into play with HD-DVD or Blu-Ray discs, and again you can blame

Vista: May not innovate, but don't discredit its value....
This is possible, but requires dvd-css, which is a driver which must be downloaded from outside the united states. this provides the ability to encrypt according Half the screen is missing and the drop down boxes do not work correctly. That's bizarre - which display card are you using? Are you using some "Linux

FSX Vista Ultimate 64 bit Intel Quad Processor install problem
Though I have not tried the final release version, I am not ready to switch from my Windows 2000 to Vista, due to missing features, support programs and adequate GForce 8800 or similar graphics card with at least 256 Mb memory, SATA II harddisk for optimal speed and a DVD drive to load the operating system.

Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
In my case two things caused this one in the EasyBCD under boot the Manage Bootloader tab your Windows XP save to option is not the same location as the Windows Vista install (C Partition) or you are missing the boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM, and ntldr files from your C drive. Hope this long instruction set helps.

Colin how about this?
I have a legitimately purchased Vista DVD here. Like yourself, howerver, I also object to having that legitimacy questioned by 'genuine validation' ..... Microsoft Windows XP and Vista, however, allow only one activation. Surprisingly, Microsoft has embedded into its new Vista operating system a feature that makes

Dual Boot with windows XP as first partition and vista second
If you're curious whether Vista will run smoothly on your system, you can try it fror free, if you you can get your hands on a Vista DVD. When installing, you can choose to not Sounds too non-WOW for my needs. I guess I don't know what I'm missing or not missing since XP and 3rd party wares fill my needs <grin>.

CD/DVD drive - Can ONLY boot to Vista
jeff j...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Sorry i think you both are missing the point i know how to setup bios to Tryed going to boot meun and booting from xp or vista does not work goes right to vista os.now i have read here to use the free program to get rid of the

What happens to OSs now?
Need urgent help, Got from faculty Windows Vista. While rebooting, for a clean installation i get every time the message: Missing ntldr. press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to reboot. Boot priority is set to DVD drive. But still same answer. After formating partition same message is appearing again. Previous OS is Win XP.

Installation Vista error-ntldr is missing
John Barnes jbar...@email.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup If you are not using the XP partition, why don't you delete it. Ore rerun the start-up repair feature a few more times--will that switch Vista over to be the C drive? "John Barnes" wrote: Run the Vista DVD and run start-up repair.

Can't boot without Vista DVD in drive - "a kernel file is ...
Then I formatted my HD partition and tried to install from the DVD - again, it hung at the first reboot. Finally (and reluctantly), I installed XP Pro SP2 and the .... If i start in safe mode, then it tells me that vista did not install completely. Is there a driver that I am missing or is my hardware incompatible.

Vista won't load after XP re-install on dual boot system
Have you ever had more than one operating system installed on this computer? Upgraded from XP to Vista Business originally, then to Ultimate. 1. Try getting the DVD drive to load using my Vista DVD. I did this by asking the BIOS to read the CD-Rom drive to boot from. There is no option to boot from the DVD