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Installation and Setup of Vista Installation problems and questions using Windows Vista. (microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup) |
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VISTA INSTALL AND OUTLOOK CONNECTOR
I was not satisfied with the install process. The computer on which I
installed this version of Vista had XP Prof installed on the primary hard drive. I installed Vista by loading it from the OS on that partition and then installing it on a clean hard drive, for a clean install. Vista did install on the clean hard drive, but it installed the “System” onto the primary hard drive partition containing XP Pro. I wanted all components of Vista on only one hard drive, so I could retire the old hard drive. After installation I was stuck with the situation of needing to have both hard drives in the computer in order to boot Vista. I solved the problem by creating three partitions the new hard drive, installing XP on the last partition and then loading Vista using the XP OS. That worked fine, with the first partition now containing Vista, and the boot.ini, ntldr, crash destination, etc. That was a lot of extra work and time to accomplish something that should have been an option in the installation menu of Vista. Also, I needed to install Vista again anyhow, since unplugging a SATA HD caused Vista to become corrupted and not boot, even with both HD in the computer. I thought Vista supported plug and play with SATA drives. Even if it does not, it should have error prevention code that would prevent the Vista OS from becoming corrupted just by unplugging a HD. Does this mean that anything that interrupts a read or write to a HD will corrupt Vista? That was not true on Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000 or XP. Another issue I have is the lack of a “Save as” command. In Word 2007 or Excel 2007, I can only find a save command, which saves the file exactly as is, without the opportunity to change the name in order to save it as a later version. I always change the name of an Excel file as I create different versions. I will probably also want to save two copies of any files I want to share – one in the new format and one as a .doc or .wk extension. I also need to do this to work with one of my other computers which are still running Office 2003. The most important problem that is still not solved is that I cannot download Outlook Connector from the MSN member site. It apparently does not recognize Outlook 2007 as a valid Outlook program and insists that I need to download Outlook 2003, crippled version. In the past I have always loaded Office first, but not initialized Outlook until I downloaded Outlook Connector. Then, when I initialized Outlook, Outlook Connector was my only e-mail option and my Personal Folder became Outlook Connector. This avoided the nuisance of having to export the Outlook Connector calendar into the Personal Folder Calendar in order to synch with my PDA. Another major issue is that I cannot load Symantec Systems Works or Ghost under Vista. This is a major problem, since I back up my computers every night using incremental Ghost backup. Right now, I am stuck without a way of backing up Vista if it gets corrupted or of fixing accumulated registry errors using Win Doctor in Systemworks. Ron Sellner ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...allation_setup |
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