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3 dozen Linux installs, not a single one worked
I installed the very very bad vista adn trying to do the same thing and recover my windows xp. i get the same fricken file that cant be recovered. In the beginning the DvD drive was not working. Later it started to work. I disabled the restore system in my computer recently because I suspect the computer was

dual boot not working
... a dvd burner, one might not have any of those thigns. i don't think i can be any more clear yet i think you are missing my point. won't try to explain any further. as long as you are hapy with your purchase then it dosen't even matter. good luck. And what OS -- Vista vs. XP, or in Ron's case possibly Linux.

vista upgrade back to xp
I know for fact that if I bought a new computer the first thing I'd do is format the hard drive and install Win98 or XP. No Vista for me whatsoever. That would be your loss, to be honest if you did not like the adverts format, get the windows install DVD re install windows Vista and then install the programs you

XP Professional OEM to Vista Ultimate Upgrade Transferable?
You bet! Sidebar and Gadgets Sidebar in Vista is OK. It is really not as cool as widgets are done on Mac OS, but it's good enough I suppose. .... The XP driver for my USB MIDI interface actually works and allows me to use Cakewalk Music Creator with my synthesizer setup, however it kept causing a blue screen at

Vista installation will not complete!
I had the entire drive backed-up onto a 2nd hard drive. Main drive: during boot complains that some windows files are corrupt or missing, Opinions on XP vs Win2K Pro? Some IT folks at work claim XP bogs their system down. I'm not hip on spending $150 for XP until it will truly buy me something.

install xp or vista
I keep getting error messages when I try to shrink the XP partition. "John Barnes" wrote: Run the Vista DVD and run start-up repair. That should put boot manager on Single HDD with two partitions: With XP installed on drive C:\ and Vista on D:\, how can I get rid of XP on C and change the Vista partion from D to C?

Multi-Boot is not Working, Vista was added to a WXP Pro System
-Michael * 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 .... 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 Drive failure in Windows Vista
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, .... I could not see my light scribe DVD Burner. Wasted hours trying everything and still no CDROM. I thought it may be related to a corrupt or missing cdrom.sys but I

Uninstalling OneCare disabled all of my CD/DVD Drives
Do I need to give up and reload the OS or is there someone out there with enough registry knowlege? Did you try updating to the latest firmware for the drive? http://sony.storagesupport.com/dvdrw/dru810adwn.htm My Sony drive will not detect a blank DVD or CD, how do I resolve this?

Dual-Boot Issue; XP Pro ---> Vista
The Arcsoft Photo Impression program interferes with the device driver, and there is NO way to get the drive back without reinstalling the Windows Operating System to Factory settings. I kid you not. This is not fun, since you cannot do a backup because, catch 22, the CD/DVD Rom is what is missing!

More On Vista
First, I'd like to hear thoughts from people who know Vista about whether or not I should just switch to XP Home. Second, if the opinion is to use XP, how to do it without loosing drivers and applications such as LightScribe for the DVD/CD/multi thingy drive, since HP doesn't give you any disks with a new PC.

I need help Bad with VISTA Home Premium 64
Here are some for Vista. Also did you install any 3rd party CD / DVD burning software? Optical drives do not work as expected after you upgrade a computer to Windows Vista http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929461/en-us CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive appears to be missing after you install Windows XP or Windows Vista

DVD drive no longer recognized Drop to 32 bit Vista
I don't doubt that you're having consistent disk access, it just may not be excessive. One piece of information missing in this issue is the applications you have loaded Athlon 64x2 duel core processor, Maxtor HDD 80gb, Nec DVD-RW ND-3550a, ATAPI DVD D DH16D2P dvd rom, Nvidai Geforce 6200, 2gb RAM, XP home sp2.

vista upgrade back to xp
Do you pull one of the 250 GB WD Caviars and plug in 30 Gb SATA and you can install Vista? DVD/CD drive does not seem to belong here. Why did you mention 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.

VISTA Ultimate Problems
Stupidly, I didn't read my DVD boxes properly and tried to install Acceleration first. That attempt failed with an error complaining about missing C++ modules. The same FSX DVDs install just fine on XP SP2, single cpu system. Flight Simulator X is NOT Vista compatible. At least not for 64 bit Vista Ultimate on

windows XP MEDIA CENTER PROBLEM
AJR ajr...@comcast.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Jeff - May be a stupid question - but it is a DVD . capable drive? 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

VERY Disappointed with Vista
I know Dell has promised to ship a Vista DVD on their blog with a new PC so I assume it's a Vista DVD. I'm not sure how you know hardware is not part of the For example, Description for earlier Windows version can be "Windows XP" or "Windows Server 2003". • Drive:\Windows\system32\Bcdedit /set {ntldr} device

Vista won't load after XP re-install on dual boot system
All the OSs I installed on this machine are XP and Vista. As you suggested I used Vista's startup repair, and it solved the "BootMGR missing" problem. 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),

Dual boot - remove one OS.
My XP partition is now a Logical drive on an Extended partition. XP was the first OS I installed, and I created that partition using the XP installation utility. COM were missing from my XP partition - obviously removed by Vista since Vista does not use NTLDR to boot. I ended up formatting the Vista partition

Top Ten Reasons to Not Wait for Vista
Hachiroku ハチロク Tru...@AE86.gts alt os windows-vista alt os windows-xp comp os linux advocacy comp sys mac On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:55:19 -0600, I took all my songs, photos, etc and put them on a FAT32 drive so I can access them either way, and I have Nero for Windows and Linux, but wind up using K3B much more