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How to repair Vista?/Startup Repair/ and other methods not co
The problem with the x86 UE is that it has to run from a desktop and that locks the system volume on which the user must replace the old OS with Vista. The XP splash screen appears on the Win98 desktop and off you go. There is no way to reformat the system drive because Win98 is using it and so it is locked.

Change drive letter 4 a partition that Vista marks as system w
After the initial loading of the temp software, (on SATA or SATA RAID) I get a message that the driver is missing for the DVD/CD drive (SATA) and to install it. Please help me, I am not dumb, I use to do this for a living and never had this mush trouble out of an OS. I think I will go back to Win XP 64.

Dual boot - remove one OS.
Install Vista with the hard drive in the computer on which the OS is to be used. I have also tried the reverse (from compaq to HP PC): Same result! Yes, of course. With XP I could boot into safe mode or just boot normally and XP would detect and install the new hardware it finds. Not reliably.

XP Professional OEM to Vista Ultimate Upgrade Transferable?
MICHAEL: Chad, Chkdsk will not run on an external usb drive on bootup. He can open a CMD prompt and type chkdsk x: /f (x being his usb drive letter) or he can use /r (bad sectors) and .... 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.

Cannot Install
The DVD drives on D and E. to cut a long story short, i had to re-install vista and after doing so Vista now shows the XP localdrive as drive "D" and the DVD F. This cant be good for the programs ive already installed on XP when it was drive F i cant boot into XP anymore. I get that "\NTLDR missing" error msg.

Reviews and Opinions on Vista
I am trying to remove Vista from a new Dell. The only media that I can boot to in the CD/DVD drive is Vista. XP, Win2K, BartPE all give me STOP blue screen. I have used the Vista DVD to format the Vista partition. So no OS at this point. But the XP CD will not fully load up. Gets part way and then STOP blue screen.

Windows Vista Complaints Department (Chris Prillo)
If I delete the C partition, my XP parition, will my Vista partition suddenly decide that it's the C partition and not the F partition--which I think it ought to 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

Recovered my XP install... still one problem. (Vista testers ...
So you open the drawer and close and then the GUI will ask "BURN A DVD?" or "TAKE NO ACTION". Hell, all I want to do is to play the damn thing, not burn it. sound, and its security features will drive you crazy. So Vista is the second worst OS, and it trashed *all* of your software--literally.

Is Vista Just Advertising?
Sorry i think you both are missing the point i know how to setup bios to boot from cd first but it wont do that it gos to first boot then comes up press any 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

Mossberg's not only a fan of Macs
Rock R...@nospam.net microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices <crispin. proc...@gmail.com> wrote Hi All, After a really long day and lots os swearing, I give up. Does vista not support DVD drives? ;) CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive appears to be missing after you install Windows XP or Windows Vista Beta 2

Allan/Janice - A Question
My MS Vista Bios says I can boot from either a CDROM/DVD, or a main hard drive, or a USB harddrive, or boot to a LAN. Apparently the XP 2003 OS will not work or upgrade at all on a MS ME computer. When I see written that XP and Vista can be used in multiboots, I can't tell which XP version (2002, 2003, 2007?

BSOD (ntfs.sys missing/corrupt) on HD and DVD Startup
But FYI, if you are upgrading an XP box, you better back up all of your third party media codecs first. Vista will wipe them out. Exactly why I would never upgrade a production machine. You have no idea what will survive the upgrade and if it will work properly or not. It doesn't matter what OS I'm using when going

CD and DVD burning
Under XP this is typically under a GUID such as C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\{6AF0EFC6-B937-4704-A430-319EB93F4C12} , Vista is a bit No NOT move or delete the cache of files under C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\{GUID} (or equivalent location depending on your OS).

OS stopped working
Apparatus: 1 Compaq Evo PC, 1 HP a1700n PC, 1 40 GB HD, 1 20GB HD, a 3rd HD drive with a functioning Windows XP installed, 1 Vista Ultimate CD, one 2 GB flash drive I spent some days creating a Vista image to clone PCs. I created the image on DVD and CD media, 1 DVD for the OS (C:) and 1 CD for the data (D:).

A USB Hard Drive of a 16bit MS ME OS booting from a 32BIT ...
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

I apologize for ever posting to comp.os.linux.advocacy
Default OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Entry #1 Name: Windows XP Pro BCD ID: {ntldr} Drive: C:\ "Changed to D:\" Bootloader Path: \ntldr Windows Directory: Entry that again Vista will not boot from the boot.ini. Boot from the Vista DVD and select repair startup. Frank The boot loader will load the BCD to C drive.

Cannot Install
Make the C drive the first drive in boot priority in the BIOS. Using your Vista DVD run startup repair (sometimes you have to do 2-3 times). .... 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 always

DriveCrypt Vista Boot Problem
And honestly: would you like to see KDE run (or should I say "crawl") on top of the Vista OS? It would instantly give KDE a bad name ... It would instantly make KDE millions of times more popular than it's ever been. Ah, so you admit that KDE isn't bad at all? I like KDE, and some KDE apps. If not for KDE I

Mike computer Not booting,
"AJR" wrote: Jeff - May be a stupid question - but it is a DVD . capable drive? "jeff" <j...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 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 bootloader and to do

What is improved in the Vista media center component?
And I understand it's suppose to be an upgrade to XP, but if I get the option to install it on another drive or partition, then I'm missing why MS cares. It has been tested for XP Pro 64 bit and Vista Ultimate 64 bit. It has not been tested with update-only media (CD or DVD) or with other OS versions.