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Vista Disk Read error after removing xp drive
scsa20 scs...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices I used to format my system every 6 months as well with XP, I plan on purchasing vista soon. the problem is that after i install perhaps a couple of months I probably will upgrade most of the hardware in my computer,

Vista PC Backup and Restore
This will at least give you that opportunity to backup any critical data you need to keep before totally removing the XP drive and then re-installing Vista. Is the XP drive smaller than the new drive? Why not just backup your data, remove the new hard disk, format the old XP drive and install Vista there,

Advice - Best way to transfer settings to a Vista Clean install.
I'm writing this email on a new Dell Vista Home Premium PC and Dell supplied a Vista Re-installation DVD but I don't know if Repair my Computer will accept format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft

Vista constantly rebooting after this week's updates ...
Titled, "Vista Installation Fails After First Reboot" If someone can come and help me out as well, that would be great. I then format the hard drive (its sees the 80gb drive fine)etc to do a clean install not an upgrade. It then starts installing, uncompressing files etc. Then it reboots once it finishes its

Change BLUE selection color in file explorer
If at anytime you chose to run only one OS...delete the other OS or format the other drive..you would still be able to boot into the unformatted drive without any modifications to the Vista boot loader....you have 2 bootable HD each with their own OS. The other way of coure is to just do a fresh install and the

Vista installation stops after a while
There are 3 types of installation for Windows Vista. Clean, Format and install and Upgrade I bypassed the key code and had Vista format and then install then did an upgrade using But, right after the format and install I did an uipgrade as per a response to me post a week ago. Since I missed your original post.

Dual booting Vista Ultimate 64 bit with XP Pro
AMD wrote: ... in the vista install it finds the hard drives fine. so i install to the raid 0 drives. it boots fine after the install. as soon as i take out the dvd it So I have delete partition so none is there. format so one only is there. install vista, same issue. then i have tried deleting the partition,

Updates
Unformat the area on the hard-disk where you want to install Vista and let Vista to do a full clean-install into that area ( with partition generation and format) .... or alternatively start with a blank hard-disk. After Vista is installed, you will then find that all of your current disk-manipulation tools,

Second harddrive cannot be read after installing Vista
After it I didn't see it. Only that message. arounf 3,4 etc hours. I didn't write very much moments. But I don't know - people get attention to it subj or not. There is one moment. When I install windows I have created partition for it under vista PE (subj of win vista installation environment).

Install/startup problem: Vista on Intel RAID controller (ICH8R etc
So I even don't get to choose yet whether I want to repartition and format my drives. I tried the same thing by doing a flat installation after W2K is started up. That would tell you the SATA drivers on the install DVD are working, at least. BTW, did you format the Vista partition from Win2K?

Itunes installation issue
There are 3 keys there: Detect Download Install On this machine both the Detect and Install had Errors that were NOT 0x0, while Download had en Errors entry that but that didn't help either, probably since the manually download file is in *.msu format and I was unsuccessful when trying to unpack it in any way.

Could not reinitialize the deployment engine
Paul, I have used EasyBCD v1.6, the latest, it's great for multi-boot configurations, so just relax and as long as you don't format those other partiotions all is well. So download EasyBCD v1.6 install it under the Vista OS and then begin reassigning and configuring the drives. I currently run an AMD Opteron185

Successful install of XP after Vista
This system uses Windows Vista Basic as operating system and is based on a 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN. I wonder if: 1. It is possible to create a Vista Install DVD allowing in case of serious problems with the hardware on one PC to format the hard disk and reload the Operating System, Configuration, Programs and

Format
Paul Graham paulgra...@pobox.com microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance thanks mikey I tried again with the Repair option after manager. if you format the xp disk wiping out the vista boot manger you will then have to REPAIR the vista install to restore the vista boot manger. not a big deal,

Computer Management & Event Viewer consoles dont open after SP
When Vista brought up the screen to select which hard drive to install Vista on, it did not allow me to format my 80 gig. do I have to worry about not being to reactivate Windows when I add new hardwares? You may need to telephone MS to re-validate after new hardware, but I hear that it's not difficult.

Virtual PC - Vista Install
Make *certain* that you check in at Windows Update immediately after reinstalling IE7 to install any critical updates offered. After format the disc I was installed Windows XP SP2 and Internet Explorer 7. Few minutes after start the IE7 crashes and appear the following message: The Internet Explorer have

Vista install fails after 1st restart
After entering the Product Key I was told I needed to install form the operating system. So, I restarted and ran setup from my existing Vista install. I got to the 'Where do you want to install Windows' there was no selection at the bottom of the screen for Drive options to allow me to format.

Virtual PC - Vista Install
To clarify, the time that I did get into SAFE MODE, it was when booting from the Vista Install DVD. After booting from the DVD, I tried to do a System CHORUS: You just format the drive , Clive Get a New Mac , Jack Y'don't need that crap toy, Roy Just get yourself free Boot from a *nix, Jix You don't need to

Clean Install of XP Fails after Vista Install Success
Vista overwrote the XP MBR on the C drive and created a dual boot. I would suggest you run this way for a couple of months to see if Vista stays stable for you. If you decide to Uninstall XP...after you save everything you need to from the C drive...just format the C drive from within Vista and then restart your

Vista constantly rebooting after this week's updates ...
I cloned the disk with Acronis & all that was needed was a repair job with the Vista install disk (which wouldn't work on the original). Which is more evidence of a hard drive problem. I formatted the original disk & it seems to be ok. Likely just because the bads that showed up were spared by the format operation.