my stepdaughter's laptop's hd crashed (unusable), she of course lost the system disc. I have my laptop and system disc, both laptops are gateway but different models 6752 and 6836. I have a new hd on order, and I will install vista with my disc and her windows product key (her laptop) I shouldn't have any problem with that right? thanks

A Vista Business 64-bit was booting fine until an Epson printer decided that the ink was low, put a two page document into the queue, and never operated properly since. We first deleted the printer object, connected to another printer on another workstation, and were able to print. But that failed on the second attempt to print, so we waited for the refurb Lexmark to arrive. The Lexmark...

A Vista Business 64-bit was booting fine until an Epson printer decided that the ink was low, put a two page document into the queue, and never operated properly since. We first deleted the printer object, connected to another printer on another workstation, and were able to print. But that failed on the second attempt to print, so we waited for the refurb Lexmark to arrive. The Lexmark...

I am trying to upgrade XP to Vista. After the information gathering process finishes I get a message to the effect that "upgrade installation disabled - cannot determine if another operating system is present - fix boot record and run again". I do not have another operating system installed. Anyone know what is going on here and how I should proceed? Thanks.

Each time I reboot i get "BOORMGR missing , hit ctrl-alt-del". does this everytime. i put in vista disc and repair it and will go into windows. how do i fix this.. When i do the repair option on the cd it does not find the OS installed on the hards drive. Im think that my hard drive has crashed any ideas on how to verify that the hard drive is gone. -- tweety1001

Each time I reboot i get "BOORMGR missing , hit ctrl-alt-del". does this everytime. i put in vista disc and repair it and will go into windows. how do i fix this.. When i do the repair option on the cd it does not find the OS installed on the hards drive. Im think that my hard drive has crashed any ideas on how to verify that the hard drive is gone. -- tweety1001

I cannot install .NET 3.51 sp1 on Windows Vista Home Premium (32bit). When I try to I get the dependancy message indicating .Net 3.0 is not installed. I checked the Control Panel and tried Turning it off, rebooting and turning it on again. Yet, .NET 3.51 still says it's not installed. Also, I cannot install the VC++ 2005 or 2008 redistributable library. All kinds of problems, sometimes I...

I cannot install .NET 3.51 sp1 on Windows Vista Home Premium (32bit). When I try to I get the dependancy message indicating .Net 3.0 is not installed. I checked the Control Panel and tried Turning it off, rebooting and turning it on again. Yet, .NET 3.51 still says it's not installed. Also, I cannot install the VC++ 2005 or 2008 redistributable library. All kinds of problems, sometimes I...

I have a new Toshiba laptop with Vista Home Basic pre-installed. I want to upgrade to Vista Business. The system easily meets the min specs. Will I have to track down drivers for this change or should Business have enough included? I understand that at the least I will have to do a Clean Install. Has anyone done this type of change?

Hi. On a number of identical computers, I've attempted to create a dual boot system, where I've used an acronis backup of vista on a separate partition in order to use it in combination with a windows 7 upgrade over the original vista version, to create a dual boot system (using easybcd 2 and easeus partition master). So for instance, the disk is 300 gb, I've divided it into 3 partitions, 100 gb...

Hi. On a number of identical computers, I've attempted to create a dual boot system, where I've used an acronis backup of vista on a separate partition in order to use it in combination with a windows 7 upgrade over the original vista version, to create a dual boot system (using easybcd 2 and easeus partition master). So for instance, the disk is 300 gb, I've divided it into 3 partitions, 100 gb...

Installed RC1, clean install. I have a HP Pavillion DV2000T. 2.16 Intel Core, 128MB Nvidia Force 7200, 2 GB RAM etc. In the Appearance and settings i do not have the option for aerio, only Vista Basic. I have followed the instructions in the Windows Help file.... and the nvidia drivers are up to date. Any suggestions? ( display settings are 32bit, refresh rate is 60hz, theme is...

This is the message I get when trying to run the setup with the digital locker... Cannot extract Windows Vista Setup to your hard drive. Please ensure that you can create files and folders in the same folder where VistaSetUpPrep.exe was downloaded. Any suggestions??

I have tried at least 5 times now to install Home Premium. Every time in the expanding step (the second one in installation) I get error message 0x80070003 stating some files cannot be found. What is wrong, obviously all the files I have are on the disk. I am clean installing it on a wiped hard drive that I format with the Home Premium disk prior to installing. Someone please help.

PROBLEM - Hey every one! I need a little help with my Windows Update. On the 25th of October, the update was fine and everything. Now, when I went to go update on the 31st it said the 25th was the LAST day it auto-update on! I went "WTF" so I decided to manually check for the updates but I did not expect a slap to my face with a smooching red error code: 80070424 ('screenshot of the...

I have DELL OPTIPLEX GX620 PC. It has 64-Bit hardware. I installed Windows VISTA Ultimate (X64) and after that audio driver is failing to install. I ran windows update but the issue remained unsolved. Following was the explanation given in "Problems and solution". "This problem was caused by Realtek RTL8187 Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps USB 2.0 Network Adapter. Realtek RTL8187 Wireless 802.11g...

For all those unfortunate souls searching and Googling for how to repair the Windows Installer Service, I have some info for you. A couple days ago I tried to uninstall one of my apps and stalled on an error "Windows Installer Service cannot be accessed". After many trials and errors trying to fix this issue, I stumbled upon a new fix for this issue that has worked in all these situations...

What is Happening? This message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin discontinuing newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums. Why? As you may know, newsgroups have existed for many years now; however, the traffic in the Microsoft newsgroups has been steadily decreasing for the past several years while customers and participants are increasingly finding solutions in the...

I got a virus which I was successfully able to remove from my system but now Windows Media Player doesn't work. I get the following error: http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/6/8/1/5/6/0/webimg/357378217_o.jpg] Clicking yes just takes me to their website where there isn't a version of WMP for Vista, only for XP. From what I've found there isn't a way to reinstall WMP for Vista. Is there a way to...

Gee, talk about a dead forum.... I'll have to post this elsewhere to have any expectattion of timely help. -- boweasel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ boweasel's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/212441.htm