I am currently in the process of building a new PC. I got it all put together but now I can't get Vista Business Ed. 64bit to install. I run the boot disk and I get to where it asks for where to save. It then does not detect my HD, I try to load drivers for my HD (seagate 160GB) but on their site they do not provide drivers saying that xp and vista have them already build in. I've tried to...

Passing through a department store in Geneva I saw an Acer Aspire L100 small desktop PC discounted to circa 50% normal price. Because I needed another PC on impulse I bought it. At home in Berne I started it and, of course, the OEM Vista Home Premium OS was in French - okay, I thought, I could live with that although my French was pretty terrible. Then I saw that included in the CDs was an Acer...

As I was stumbling around installing Vista Ultimate 32 I made some mistakes causing me to start over. The second installation went fine and the machine is runnin great. The only problem, really just an iritation, is when it boots up there is a multi-boot screen offering me two Vistas to choose from. Fortunately, the first one seems to be the good one so it will go ahead and boot without...

I tried to install Vista Ultimate and it crashed twice during install, so I grabed Vista Business and installed it and it works fine. I am trying to figure out what is different between the 2 that would let Biz install and not Ultimate. Any Ideas? --

I have 4 harddrives. 2 SATA 2 and 2 IDE. 1 is my primary with Vista 64 Ultimate. The second is the one that holds my License codes (I don't ever want to touch this drive). My third is blank (IDE). 4th is a back up of everything. I want to install Win XP SP2 on my second drive. I can't describe how much I love XP. Anyway, I disconnected all drives apart from #3. I formatted and then installed...

Upgrading from XP Pro SP2 to Vista Business VLK terminated with the following error: "Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration. Installation cannot proceed" Reviewing the setupact.log reveals the following error (hard to find but search is your friend): 2007-02-06 16:02:59, Info IBS

Vista SP1 x64 While trying to install Office 2007 Ultimate, I got the error message 2303: Internal error has occurred c:\windows\installer\4120be.pie Please help. Thanks.

So, if you have a machine with SoundMax drivers on it, you have to uninstall them before you run sysprep. If you forget to do this (I have, unfortunately), you hose your Vista install and need to start over. Has anybody figured out a better way to deal with machines that have these drivers in them?

I formatted my hard drives in Vista 64-bit, now when I try to use them on Vista 32 they can not be found (other than in the BIOS). Someone has told me that the disk format between Vista 32-bit and Vista 64 bit is different? They also said that the format in Vista 64 is not reversable (like in the old 16-bit and 32-bit file formats). This does seem strange to me as I can't run FDISK and the only...

GRRRRR --- HELP I'm searching all over the net and have tried everything to no avail 1 year old dell inspirion 1750 - came with vista - got a virus Have reformatted, repartitioned, installed drivers at correct spot and install clean Vista - Dell had me swap some things around in BIOS etc to no avail ... I go fine thru the clean install until I get to the "completing installation" and then it...

this isn't a problem with installing Windows Vista, but rather Microsoft Installer has become corrupt. You know the one. It uses .msi files now-a-days. whenever I try to install anything that requires the use of Windows Installer, it crashes out with an error. there are many ways for installing a program, and every program uses one installer or another. the ones that use a third party...

Garibaldi wrote: When attempting to use Windows Anytime Upgrade (WAU), I get the 'Upgrade is disabled' error message, please could somebody tell me why ?. i thought that i'd purchased an unused WAU DVD but does this message prove otherwise ? My C: drive is NTFS, so that is not the problem. Please help, thanks

Without warning on my Dell XPS 1530 laptop (Vista Home Premium - pretty much up to date) I found that my system would no longer boot. I could get to the User Select step, but it was just a Blue Screen from that point forward. I sent some time today with a Dell tech and we tried to run a Restore (F8 on boot - Repair your Computer - System Restore) on a couple of different restore points. They...

I have an old system with Win98SE2 on it and installed an All in one printer. I was able to scan paperwork into MSWord with no problems. I now have a new system with Windows Home basic and using the same printer, I can no longer do this. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

to who ever can help recently my computer just totally failed on me so i had to reboot from windows home disk, everything was installed and now its asking me for activation key which i have on my tower i have tried and tried over again to put the key in but it keeps on coming up wrong key.. what should i do and how can i fix this??

Hello I am using wix to create a Windows Installer for a 64-bit Platform that adds some dlls to the GAC_64. Any information will be helpfull

Hello, I got Vista Basic with my new notebook. I upgrade it online with Vista Home Premium. Then I wanted to run XP in another partition but the system refused to install XP from Vista. Installing it separatly, I did not get the multiboot screen and to boot back from Vista I had to repair Vista, but then I dont have access anymore to XP. Installing XP first and then Vista, I got the...

Hey all, Ok, I'll give you guys an idea about what's happened. I've an Asus m50s Laptop. I had Vista 32bit and 64 bit on two separate partitions, on the same hard disk. The IDE configuration was set on " Enhanced" in my Bios. I wanted to install XP 64bit onto over my Vista 64 bit. Once i booted from the disk. it read "Couldn't detect a harddisk" So i read up on some forums and told me to change...

Hi, I have a laptop with Vista Home Basic and a desktop with Vista Home Premium. Both run slow and unstable. A friend told me that Vista 64 bit version runs more stable and seems snappier on the same hardware since he has tried both. So, I want to know if I can install Vista 64 bit for Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium for the licenses I have or do I need to buy new licenses for the...

Since I formatted (one or two will remember me having had to do this) I now notice that I have no Windows.old folder, is this normal? I used to get it but since formatting and installing Vista due to my previous installation troubles it has not shown itself.......I thought it should have been there, but no. I must admit that I always disliked it being there, and had in the past (year or so)...