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Windows cannot load dvd driver error code 39
I have XP installed on C, and I partitioned the drive, and loaded up Vista from the DVD, started the installation, but when the computer reboots during the install, it does not have the option to choose which OS, and therefore does not finish installation? I looked under system startup under XP, and there is no

Optical drives
Everything I wrote was about the inadequacy of anything less than a bootable XP or Vista DVD to repair the OS. I wouldn't call an OEM for any other reason than .... Vista "Not Clean" "time waster" [Update 4:10AM - A reader clarifies that you can technically do a clean install by telling Vista to wipe the hard drive

Apple issues warning on Vista
Run startup repair from the Vista DVD (also with the system set up with the XP drive as your 'system' drive. It makes NO difference which drive you have as .... 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

vista upgrade back to xp
Did you do an upgrade to XP? If you didn't do a Clean install a lot of Crap will be left over from win ME or your last OS. Pictures that I very seldom look at & knew they were not complete, I panicked, opened my External HD Back-up & they were there, since then I Back up all of my Important stuff to CD or Dvd,

Dual boot - remove one OS.
Note The boot folder for this step is on the DVD drive. 2. Use Bcdedit.exe to manually create an entry in the BCD Boot.ini file for the earlier version of the Windows operating system. To do this, type the following commands at a command prompt. Note In these commands, Drive is the drive where Windows Vista is

DVD-RAM drive not working with Windows Vista
I am having the same if not similar issue. I have 2 PATA drives (neither of which ever had an OS installed) and 1 SATA drive which used to have XP on it before I installed Vista 64 where it created the 'Windows.old' folder. When booting without the Vista DVD in the drive, I get the "ntoskrnl.exe is missing or

Folder options missing
If the entire Vista OS has to be reinstalled, that will only effect the C partition. Everything that is stored on the other partition will be not be changed. .... Note The boot folder for this step is on the DVD drive. 2. Use Bcdedit.exe to manually create an entry in the BCD Boot.ini file for the earlier version

I need help Bad with VISTA Home Premium 64
Whemn I put a dvd in the drive and run the program I get this message..... "Error Code 8090004 ASPI for Windows not available!" Then in the detailed section it says" Only 32-bit I don't have the same options that I had in my old XP pro to fix this. What am I missing? Thanks "Carlos" wrote: Aaron: Quite right.

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers II
The Apple Pro keyboard (the white one) works fine in either XP or Vista with the Macintosh keyboard driver for XP. By the way, what does the Boot But I don't know whether the CD-Eject key works with a non-HP computer or CD/DVD drive. I don't know if it works under OS X, either. The Microsoft Wireless Desktop

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Use the drive letter that XP shows up as in Vista for the search. There is no way to know for sure what drive letters will be assigned at sub-OS level so the Microsoft Management console, I made the Vista partition the active partition. Then I rebooted, or tried to: I get an error message: BOOTMGR is missing.

why did i buy vista...
Then, Windows basically offers the solution of inserting your Vista CD and choosing 'Repair you computer'. However, I no longer have my Vista upgrade CD, and I believe all it does is copy original system files from the CD to the hard drive? However, obviously the OS CD would not contain DriveCrypt's files.

Cannot use DVD drives in vista
Use the drive letter that XP shows up as in Vista for the search. There is no way to know for sure what drive letters will be assigned at sub-OS level so it is 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

What is improved in the Vista media center component?
MICHAEL u158627_e...@dslr.net microsoft public windows vista general Chad, Chkdsk will not run on an external usb drive on bootup. He can open a CMD prompt and type chkdsk x: /f (x .... Again a repair install has the most likely chance to succeed in XP, (and can work in Vista) but you need to have a Vista DVD.

** DVD / CD-ROM drive disappeared **
Complaints in newsgroups, etc., about this "missing asms file" issue go back about five years. I personally have encountered the error at least three times in .... I don't plan to buy Vista until all the serious bugs in XP have been worked out. I can handle minor bugs -- no OS is perfect -- but this is not minor!

massive vista problem, system registry file missing
Laugh at this: In a poll that came out shortly after the introduction of Windows XP people said they bought a Windows upgrade for one main reason... they So just remember we upgrade not because Windows is so good, it simply would be a bigger hassle to switch to another OS and also replace all that software we

Hard drive light flickers continuously.
XP on drive C: so all my stuff works and I can get some biz done, and Vista on drive D: so I can experiment around with it, and not have to worry about whether everything You cannot begin the installation of Vista by booting from the Vista DVD. The installation can only be started from within a working OS.

Microsoft allows bypass of Vista activation Brian Livingston's ...
So I drive him home and when I get back I turn on my computer. I get to where it asks me if I want to boot into XP or Vista (I have it dual booted) I select Vista and it gives me an error of NTFS.sys is missing or corrupt and it tells me to boot from the Vista DVD and use the startup repair.

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
What I did to install it was create an extended partition on my hard drive and create a new V: partition. When I booted to the Vista dvd and installed it, that says: File: \Windows\system32\winload.exe Status: 0xc0000001 Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.

Subject: DVD/CD Rom Doesn't recognize any media in Windows
This image does not put the contents of disc 2 onto the hard-drive, and I haven't heard that HPs do either. We get disc 1 (XP Pro only) in the i386 folder. This "recovery disc" exploitation of consumers means that there is no option to run the recovery console, no option to run an OS repair, no option to slipstream

Processor Comparison between an AMD & a Pentium
Windows Vista will not be any more 'open ended' than Windows XP was, unfortunately. Evidently you and I disagree as to what "open-ended" means. Why bother writing an Os X driver for the 3% of the world who might potentially be using it? Well, it may be because "3% of the world who might potentially be using it"