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Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Don d.burne...@clothes.comcast.net microsoft public windows 64bit general Just installed Vista Boot Pro. When I launch it , the first thing I get is a warning message as follows: " VistaBootPro has detected that Vista is either not installed or is installed on a hidden drive. You may experience minor problems using

Installed Vista and IE7 won't connect but Firefox will
I installed Vista Home Premium Express Upgrade. I have upgraded drivers including the sound drivers, web cam, NAVIDIA, etc. After going into Device Manager I note the following: Sound, Vdeo & Game: the Conextant High Definition audio works fine. However, under that same heading: ADS Instant HDTV PCI has a yellow

Linux preferred. How to deal with pre-installed Vista ... or ...
Frank f...@osspan.clm microsoft public windows vista general jxzk wrote: I guess this is a slap in the face to the blind supporters of vista, who claim "you have to be smart to install vista", implying that the people who have problems or just dont like it are not smart. Lets see who laughs last though!

installed windows xp on acer 3680..had vista home basic device man
The ideal thing would be to simply do a fresh install of Vista from the XP desktop but I can understand that you might not want to do that. In any case, even if you leave everything set up like it is, you should still make the registry entry in XP. It doesn't matter how you installed the operating systems,

Linux preferred. How to deal with pre-installed Vista ... or ...
With this version I can not connect to the network without a drive designation which I need to be able to do, so I need to go back to XP Media Center Edition 2005 that was pre-installed on my computer. When I boot the computer I get the options to start with VISTA or another operation system.

UMAX Astra 1200S suggestion
However, in Vista you can modify folder permissions in Windows Explorer via right-click -> properties -> security -> edit In a short test that works for subfolders in %programfiles% too, I seemed to be able to create and modify a form in "c:\program files\test55" that way. IOW, it's similar to what you had to do in

just installed vista
Richard "Richard LeBlanc" <da...@explornet.com> wrote in message news:AE5F4C80-55B9-433D-934C-DF4ECF0478C0@microsoft.com... I have a new Acer PC with the OS pre installed. Does anyone know if it is possible to dual boot using the pre installed windows Vista and install vista on a new partition and how to go about

just installed vista
You may doubt this is possible, except my XP install was once part of a different Vista install, so has already been modified Before you draw conclusions, I wanted to basically re-install vista on this hard-drive and migrate my setup, while keeping XP installed on Hard Drive A. I was unable to easily get vista

Unable to install Vista.. (ERROR After Installitation.)
Rick Rogers r...@mvps.org microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Hi, Have you checked with support for the game you are trying to install? You may need to check that you This has never happened before - can anybody fix this problem. Note - I have already re-installed vista but the problem staill remains.

Dual Booting XP & Vista
ALVARO DE CASTRO VASCONCELLOS vasconcellos...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general Install again. Use Microsoft update. I am getting the "Windows Vista Service Pack 1 cannot be installed....supports only English, French etc. " I once had other unsupported languages installed, but I have removed

Installed VISTA now need to go back to XP Media Center Edition
Andy 1...@2.3 microsoft public windows vista installation_setup On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:33:00 -0800, qwer0321 <qwer0...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: my computer was preinstalled Vista home without DVD setup disk. system be recovered by harddisk when disabled. i installed xp pro in D:. the Vista is not bootable.

Pre-Installed Vista Business 32bit to 64bit
If its a defective Hardware Y will it install Xp in first place....???? I was unaware from your previous messages that you had installed XP. What are the references to GRUB? Have you installed that as your boot manager? Please give us a complete description of what software you do have installed and how it's

New laptop with semi pre installed Vista Home Premium
Why when I boot into windows xppro does it recognize the partition it is installed on as D: and when I boot to Vista Home Basic and see the same partition that XPPro is on it is F: ? I want to dual boot the two operating systems? Un able to change drive letter to D: in windows vista home basic?

Newly installed Vista does not recognize my 2nd hard drive.
I turned off the firewall, I have no other security or anti-virus software running, keep trying things, Vista tells me my high speed connection is fine except nothing works to get on the internet, not even Vista's own help can get on the internet. Suggetions? If it's just after you've installed, I've found it to be

Vista Memory Problem
Now I have installed Vista and the magic packet has been gone. When I turn on the nic card may wake my pc it wakes up all the time. With magic packet turned on only a wol tool could wake up the pc. Tried the Vista driver and Nvidia driver but no magic packet. Only wakeonlan from Poweroff.

installed windows xp on acer 3680..had vista home basic device man
Now Don, the reason you have this issue, is because your XP drive was plugged. That is one amongst many reasons that experienced users prefer to use bios option than Vista boot manager. As you can see from my pic, BCD store only shows Vista, but can't see XP because I unplugged the drive when I installed Vista.

how to make partion on my laptop?[installed vista premium ...
Hard drives like floppies. Less than US 30.00. m "Richard LeBlanc" <dandr@explornet. com> wrote in message news:AE5F4C80-55B9-433D-934C-DF4ECF0478C0@microsoft.com... I have a new Acer PC with the OS pre installed. Does anyone know if it is possible to dual boot using the pre installed windows Vista and install vista

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Charlie Tame char...@tames.net microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance lesley wrote: Hi I have just installed Vista and my PC is so slow it wont play games that were installed before the Vista experience - I have up graded my memory but it is still running slow If you started with a clean disk drive

Installed Vista
John Hasler j...@dhh.gt.org comp os linux setup Ottavio Caruso writes: You are going to go through a lot of hell, starting from the fact that the manifacturer will not support you if you change the partition table or install anything else from the OEM image. Do they actually say that in the written warranty?

Installed Vista
Richard, Successfully upgraded to Vista over the weekend and used the Easy Transfer as you recommended. Basically I just inserted the Vista CD, when the autorun starts you have a screen that offers to install Vista and also at the bottom a link to start Easy Transfer. It's a bit worrying at first as it seems to