I'm not sure about if this is the right place for this thread, but if it isn't, I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. Anyway. So here's my question. I have a Windows XP, and was thinking about downloading the Windows Vista RC1. Now, I downloaded the"Advisor", and it says that the Basic Edition would be great for my PC, though some programs might not run due to compatibility issues....

Hello I have a Sony desktop with Soundmax intergrated digital audio. I get no sound after upgrading from Vista beta 2 toRelease Candidate 1. It worked well before. In the device manager I get an error code and message that states This device cannot start (code 10). Thanks in advance.

If I use the following senario will I be able to reinstall Vista to another hard drive (other then the one its on now)? I now have a duel boot system (XP on drive 1 and Vista on drive 2). I want to clean install Vista on drive 3 without destroying XP. I intend to delete Vista off of drive 2. The following is my plan. Insert the Vista DVD while in XP, don't let it run. go to a CMD prompt and...

I have attempted to installed Vista RC1 several times. I'm sure my computer is compatable. I have an INTEL x975xbx motherboard and an INTEL dual core processor extreme (955) at 3.46mHz and 4gigs of 800mHz. The latest INTEL Bios was released in August in which I downloaded for the NVIDIA GeForce 7950 x2 grapics card. I install 64bit Vista from an MS Disc which I ordered. Everything...

Mulitple OS set up; PQMagic BootMaqic is used to select the OS. I have a DOS partition (hda1), win2k in a primary partitiion (hda2), and Linux distros. I have plenty of space in the extended. In what ways will installing it in the extended partion (1) affect my boot manager and (2) affect the win2k installation, especially if/when I uninstall RC1? Thanks,

First off Vista installed on first try. Looked great until I started looking at my devices and and restarted without a disc in the DVD drive. Let me list the issues and see igf anyone has any suggestions. 1. Vist will not boot unless the install DVD is in the drive and Boot order is optical drive first. Any other settings give a boot disc missing or a forced restart. 2. Sound... I see many...

Loaded Vista Beta from disc and made the mistake of not installing cleanly. Have had lots of problems. Discussed this with tech and deceided that as I had just downloaded and burnt to disc the RC1 Version it would be better if I installed it. Got a dialog box saying "Enter new serial number". This I did but could not get the "GO" button to highlight, tried going into "Safe Mode" to see if it...

Hello, I have downloaded Windows Vista RC1 build 5600 and i have a problem.First of all i have a 250Gb HD and with it i made 2 partitions,the 1st with 160Gb and the 2nd with 70Gb.In the 160Gb.I have Windows XP SP2 in the 1st partition and in the 2nd with 70Gb i installed the Windows Vista RC1.I did everything perfect,and in the 3/4 of the installation the screen becomes black and nothing...

I downloaded the above and burned it on a DVD. My AMD Athlon 64 fails to find the File during boot-up and passes on to the Windows XP boot. What am I doing wrong? Thanks

I downloaded this File and burned it on a DVD - Vista 5600.16384.060829-2230 x64fre client-Ir1cxfre en dvd. On re-start my BIOS does not recognize the Data, passes it by and starts WinXP What am I doing wrong? -- an old - old guy who tries to keep up!

Installed Vista from disc that I received from Microsoft and made the mistake of not doing a clean install. Lots of problems with installed programs etc. had a number of conversations with various people at MSN and it was deceided that it would be better to do a clean install as I had just downloaded the RC1 version in the last few day's. Got a dialog box to enter serial number into. Entered...

Hi all, Is it possible to upgrade from RC1 5600 to RC1 5728 without doing clean install with RC1 5728? Thanks Kunal Shah

I am trying to upgrade Vista Beta 2 to RC-1. It makes it fine throught the compatibility test. When it reaches 10% on the file copy task it simply says that it encountered an error and terminates the install. Is anyone else encountering this problem. Any known fixes?

This has happened four times using disks created at x2 and x1 on a Dell 9150 with a D950 and 3 Gig Ram, currently running Dual Boot XP Pro and RC1 x86 with no apparent problems. Doing a clean install to a fresh 80Gig partition. Install starts, allows me to enter Product Key, then thinks for a short while (10 secs) and gives me the following Error: "Windows cannot open the required file...

I've had Windows since 3.0 (!) and have done many, many installs of the many versions. One thing during setup is setting the time zone/date/time if your system clock and the dialog box selecting your time zone doesn't get the hour/day/date correct based on what your system clock already knows, and what Windows applies according to your zone selection (GMT + or - or whatever). Usually I see...

I downloaded RC1 and burned a DVD and backed up my system I used Partition manager to re-organise my disk and created an empty 50Gb (Drive G:) primary partition. I also have ‘Recovery’ (primary) and a Dive C (primary, active) and an extended partition with 3 logical drives. Tested and XP still OK. I ran the Vista install, selecting to install in the G partition, with update...

Wow, where to begin. I would like to start off by say that I have about 3 iso files on my hard drive of Vista RC1 32(which shows on my my overall hard drive space) but none of them show up. I am running Windows Vista Beta 2, and have tried everything to locate them. The only way I can see them is if I actually try to save another iso file in the same directory. Then I can access them, but to...

Where is my downloaded file? There seems to be problem with the Vista build 5384 and Akamai ActiveX download manager. (Using download manager with XP worked as expected.) The problem surface after the file has been downloaded and verified. Good so far, but I had set the destination folder to be “C:\Users\Peca\Download� and expected to find Vista RC1 image file there, but I was wrong. By...

I have my OS of XP install on my first HDD and Vista setup on a 2nd HDD. I had a error msg when I tried to install Vista on the 2nd to create a multi boot. I had to pull cables off the 1st HDD and set the other HDD as a stand alone to install. How can I change the boot.ini file on the original HDD (1st HDD) to do Multi boot?

hey i have done a clean install of vista rc1 i hadto wipe my xp anyways... ive been running fine for about 3 weeks but for some things i still want xp. how do i go about installing xp now? i have dual booted with the beta 2 but i already had xp installed but now if i go ahead and install xp on a second partion will that wipe my mbr? or will the xp boot manager still see vista? i dont want to...