How does Vista decide which partition is made the system partition?

I have installed vista build 5600 on my Asus A6R and all drivers working with the exception of the Irda which is built on to main board, it states Code 32. A driver (service) for this device has been disabled. An alternate driver may be providing this functionality. (Code 32) Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft and to see if there is a solution...

Hi I have an Asus A6R Laptop which has built in infared, however vista says A driver (service) for this device has been disabled. An alternate driver may be providing this functionality. (Code 32) Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft and to see if there is a solution available. i assume this is due to bios as this was a clean install, any help would be...

I have recently built a new PC and installed Vista Ultimate (non OEM). I think my motherboard is faulty and I need to get a replacement. Hearing all the stories about Vista's activities to prevent software piracy, will this have any consequences. Can I do it and if so, will it reduce my future options to make hardware changes. One of the reasons for building my own PC was to allow me to...

"Dave R." dwragle at drbsystems dot com wrote in message ... I have a process control system that uses two computers connected by RS232 serial ports. One end is running on Windows XP Pro, and the other is now on Windows Vista Business (used to be a DOS machine). Unfortunately, as soon as we put the other end on Vista we...

Hi, I am having problems with one of my machines with Vista Home Premium installed (release version). I have a Sony CD/DVD rewriter but vista is not recoginising that it has Writing capablilty in Window media player 11 or in Windows Explorer. However the backup and restore program allows me to backup to it sucessfully. Vista has recoginised the drive as SONY DVD RW DRU-510A SCSI CdRom Device...

I made the mistake of plugging my Wacom pen tablet in before installing the driver. Vista recognised the device and installed a default driver which does not work The Driver installation disk will not install untill the default driver is uninstalled. How do i do this

Am I missing something, did I miss the boat or is MSFT missing the boat on their own product? I read news posts, blogs and just about everything I could before diving into Vista. I even built a new PC so that I could experience everything Vista had to offer. I have a Vista score of 4.6(Core 2 Duo 6600, 2GB RAM Dual 300GB SATA drives, 7900 GS video) Now don't get me wrong, I am using...

I am trying to get my MP3 player (Sansa m230) to work in vista, and I have made a lot of headway, but... When in normal use (moving music in or out, and playing) it seems to work fine. In windows explorer it shows up as drive "J". When I switch the device internally to "MSC" mode (required to update firmware) it shows up in explorer as drive "K" and I get an error message- "Exception...

I have a spare WD EIDE HD sitting around and would like to stick it into my HP machine. The C: drive is a SATA. Can I connect my EIDE drive in-line with the CD drive, which appears to have the same connector? If so, what do I set the jumpers to on the EIDE drive? TIA -- Dave T. Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, Because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

Win Vista Home Premium HP A6009 desktop AMD athlonX2 64 3 gigs ram Hi, I have several USB memory sticks that have the U3 software on them. Following some advice from several NG's I took them to work to format them on an XP machine, but when I get home and plug them into my Vista machine the U3 software is still there. I checked them at work after quick formatting and they appeared to be...

HP Pavilion A6009N desktop 3 gigs RAM AMD +64 dual core processor Nvidia 9800GT Graphics Microsoft 1000 wireless keyboard & optical mouse Problem - Computer refuses to go into sleep mode. When I force sleep by clicking the power button on the task bar the computer goes to sleep for about 5 - 20 seconds and then wakes up and stays awake.

Hello all, I have a spare EIDE internal hard drive I would like to install to my machine, but I don't have a spare bay. Can someone clue me in about USB HD cases, how do they work and what to do to set one up? Does the drive just plug in to the case, or does it come with cables? I never knew that these things existed until recently, so am ignorant of them. -- Dave T.

Hi folks, Win Vista home premium. I am installing a legacy WD hard drive in a USB 2.0 enclosure and am unclear about how to set the jumpers. Would being on a USB connection call for the single setting, or master/slave? It is an EIDE drive. The prob I am having is that the USB driver installed ok, the drive shows up in Disk management as a healthy FAT32, with drive letter "F"

Hi group. My machine is Vista Home Premium SP2. It came with a CXT PCI Soft Data Fax Modem installed, and Realtek High Definition Audio. My question is this; Shouldn't this modem be able to transmit voice signals over an analog phone line? When I connect my phone line to the RJ11 connector of the modem I am able to use windows phone dialer to dial out, make a connection, and I can hear the...

I installed HP DVD movie writer, but the program can't find the DVD writer when I try to use the program. I suspect the problem is as follows: There are 5 drives on the computer - C,D,E,G,H. C&D are the hard drive; E is the CD/DVD drive built into the computer; G is labeled "rremovable disk"; H is the movie wrtiter drive. The problem seems to be that the software for this program is...

Righto. I have an external HDD - Western Digital Elements 500GB. I formatted it to NTFS a while back. The HDD itself is fine. Vista Ultimate x64 has serious issues though. I am administrator, yet suddenly I cannot rename any file. I can't press F2, I can't right-click and do Rename (it isn't even on the right click menu), it isn't on the toolbar menu, just gone. I've been renaming files all...

Is this normal for vista to show this? Im running the 32 bit version

I have three users accounts on my HP Pavilion DV9260, running windows vista ultimate. Two accounts open up fine but one stops and indicates Explorer is not responding, and when you press search for updates I get a blue screen. My event viewer reflects the following Bluescreen error: Fault bucket X64_0x9F_nt!PopBuildDeviceNotifyLis****chdog+2f, type 0 Event Name: BlueScreen Response: None Is...

Microphone Drivers, Just did a clean install of Win Vista RC1. Windows Vista Ultimate Dell Inspiron 1300, Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.40 GHz , 128MB video card, 1GB RAM 80 GB HD. 32-bit OS. I passed the compatibility test before i installed it. I have a system rating of 1.0 in the windows experience index. I am unable to use my microphone. when i try to go to , windows speak...