I've been working on this all night and have just about given up... I have 2 NEW SATA hard drives. I have a clean install of Vista Ultimate on one (DISK 0), and a Norton Ghost of my current XP installation on the other (DISK 1). I cannot seem to get my XP installation to boot from the Vista Bootloader menu. They each boot fine when they are on their own. I've tried all I can think of an...

Do you have to have a version of Windows installed on you PC in order to install the Vista upgrade? I recall with Windows XP's upgrade install all you had to do was insert the install disc from a previous version during it's install (Windows 98, ME, 2000). That was enough to supply proof that you owned a previous version of Windows. Has that changed with Vista? Thanks,

After a great deal of searching, I am still unable to find a resolution to this. I am upgrading WindowsXP to Vista Business...well, at least trying to. Have tried a number of times now after making various changes and still no joy. Have tried the registry fix with PartMgr (but it did not need to be fixed in the first place). At this point, I am ready to put Vista back in the box as it does ...

Since my XP to Vista Ultimate upgrade, no Internet site using Flash will load properly. The Macrovision Flash site says Flash 9.0 is loaded, but the users of it cannot get past some kind of blocking. I have Spybot, but the "Immunize" function is turned off. I've faithfully followed the Help and KB fixing ideas and prompts.... to no avail. Thanks in advance.

I've tried, unsuccessfully, 5 times to upgrade my XP Media Center Edition to Vista Ultimate. Upgrade runs fine until the final reboot, and then I get the BSOD with the above error about the paging file. Restore back to the old OS, and check that the paging file is system managed. Retry. Same error occurs. It gives a memory error as well, but the screen is there for a second, and then it...

I have installed Vista Premium on one hard drive and have XP Pro on another. When I try to boot to Pro, the system now thinks I need a password to load. I have never had or used a password. Vista loads OK, it just won't load Pro anymore.

I am currently dual booting with XP on my C: drive and Vista on a V: partition. How can I delete the C: partition and make Vista the entire drive, adn then change the letter to C? No program will let me do this.

I went from XP to Vista on my Toshiba Satellite 17" laptop.... all pictures, all icons etc. are too wide.... stretched so everyone and everything appears fat. I've spent hours in the Help menus.... I'm not smart enough to find the fix (as I only have a Masters in English....) any ideas gratefully received. The display is obviously de-anamorphosing to fit the wider screen, but the...

I downloaded the upgrade advisor and it says my computer is compatiable with vista. So I installed it on my SATA drive, and when it boots up for the first time. I get an installation failed error. It only lets me rollback to XP pro. And in the whole process it screws up my lilo bootloader so I can no longer boot up in linux. My PC configuration is as follows: Custom Built PC. Abit KN8 Socket...

If I knew which Microsoft Redmond boy wonder wrote the code for improving "security" in Vista I'd have my hands around his throat about now! Just kidding... but damn, in the real world, this is a disaster for anybody that moves files around on their system a lot like I do. Consider: People send me via the Internet or email, video files which I edit and

Jonj How did you do this? I need to do the same thing. I can open BCDEdit but am not sure which commands to use and how to edit the file. Thanks.

I want to upgrade to 64 Bit Vista Ultimate. I am running 32 bit XP Pro. Is Vista going to require a clean install? Can a clean install be completed with the upgrade download or do I need to buy the boxed upgrade?

I purchased the Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade.. Installed as upgrade from Windows XP - I have run into some snags and would like to Re-Install as a FRESH install (wiping clean - hard drive and so on....) Which can be done w/o a problem but I am concerned if I reinstall a fresh copy that I won't be able to "ACTIVATE" windows.... Will Microsoft see this as trying to install on a second...

At 12:00PM I started a Vista Ultimate upgrade which took approximately 2.5 hours, actually it was more like 1.5 hours and the other 1 hour was finding drivers for my Intel SATA raid controller and my 3Com SOHO NIC card. Lessons learned: a.. have drivers ready when ask or you better have another pc up and running to fetch them (.5 hrs lost). b.. if you are un-sure of the type of hardware,...

my computer as a Nvidia GE Force FX 5500, does anybody know if this card is compatible with vista

Just clean installed Vista ultimate on a Dell XPS M1710. When I try and run Windows Experience (WinSAT) to update the rating after installing NVidia video drivers; all I get is a blank window with "This Page Failed To Load" written across the middle. I have NEVER seen this problem before in much testing from Beta 1 onwards. Is it a Dell M1710 problem, an NVidia problem or a Vista...

On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:02:38 +0000, Dr Teeth wrote: I have an OEM version of Vista. I want to install it to a clean partition and a) use a third party boot manager and b) not have Vista place any files in my XP partition. Partition Commander 10 from Avanquest does everything Partition Magic does... and its cheaper. I picked up a copy some time back and it...

I can't install Adobe Reader because it says the temp folder is inaccessible and to check to make sure I have write permissions to the temp folder. How do I solve this?

So i was opening up an exe from a download manager and it asked the standard "open with" question - i was so busy clicking around and getting to understand vista that i chose INTERNET EXPLORER by accident. Now i cannot open up any EXE files as it just opens IE over and over again. How do i restore the "application" default back to the EXE file, it is not listed under the file types and...

I want to know if I can buy any version of Vista, and decide later to upgrade to a different edition. It seems to me this was supposed to be a feature, and now that it's out I'm having trouble finding info on this. Say I buy a Dell with Vista Home Basic preinstalled. What if I want ultimate later on? Can I pay Microsoft and unlock the features without having to get new CD media? Same with...