Another dual boot question!
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:08:22 +0100
I am considering setting up a dual boot on my 64 bit Vista Ultimate beastie.
I have a total of 4 hard drives all SATA 2 all 500gb and set up as two RAID1
drives C & D. I was thinking of putting XP on D
Question: In a dual-boot install when inserting the XP CD would I need to F6
and load SATA & RAID drivers or ...
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Dual Booting
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:42:14 -0500
Hi I just bought and external hardrive for my Toshiba Satellite A-200
laptop and I was wondering if there was any way that I could dual boot
xp and vista with vista preinstalled. Because it is preinstalled I do
not have the boot disc. BUT. I do have the xp disc that I own. I was
wondering if anybody knew about a tu ...
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COM ports
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:19:29 -0700 (PDT)
I'm trying to install a bluetooth device that requires two ports
within the range of COM ports 3-9. When I install the device, COM
ports that are too high are automatically assigned. However, when I
try to manually change these COM ports, it tells me that all the lower
ports are "in use". This is because I've ha ...
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Weird folder
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:42:15 +1200
I have been running Vista Home Premium for about a year now and recently I
installed SP1. I have noticed a new folder in the root of the drive with the
weird name of "bd6ab1ab976e46603d85b4fd7ce0". When I look into it there
seems to be a pile of stuff related to SP1.
SP1 installed trouble free, and I have h ...
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Reformatting Vista - Error
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:35:16 +0530
Hi All, I have been trying to reformat my Vostro 1700 laptop. I know
very little about computers so I am trying my best and I can answer more
questions.
I somehow managed to download a trojan, I think my son did in a World
of Warcraft file actually, but anyway, so I thought the easiest thing to
do is to reformat ...
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express upgrade to windows vista
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:41:02 -0700
I have a valid copy of the express upgrade to windows vista. When entering
the product key in during installation, it comes up "invalid". How do I go
about fixing this issue? ...
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Vista Ultimate 32bit Upgrade - STOP Error
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:20:19 +0530
Hi,
Hoping someone may be able to help me with this.
I bought the Vista Ultimate Upgrade from ebay and received it today,
but i'm having trouble upgrading my XP Pro machine.
I go through the install process and there are no conflicts or
anything, i've uninstalled Norton.
When it reboots the first time a ...
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Office Home and Student 2007 from Dell to HP
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:38:55 -0400
I have a Dell XPS 420 with Mic.Office Home & Student 2007, Vista Ultimate
32bit, wired to a Linksys WRT600N router. The disc I have from Dell says
(OEM). I have been researching for an hour but I can not seem to find a
clear answer. I just ordered a HP dv7t series laptop, they did not have
Ultimate 32bit, so ...
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Trying to install Vista Home Basic - 64 Bit on boot
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:21:24 -0500
Hi, Currently I use Windows XP Pro (32 bit) and I just received Vista
Home Basic, 64 Bit edition and I try to run it on boot..
When I run the CD on boot I get "Windows is loading files" and as soon
as the progress bar is finished I get the following page:
Windows Boot Manager:
Windows failed to start a recent hard ...
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Vista booting vs. boot.ini
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:23:05 +0200
Hi,
Can someone explain to me the logic of Vista booting?
I have a PC with:
- one SATA HD
- one DVD drive on IDE2 master
- one HD on IDE2 slave
I installed XP on the SATA drive and have used for some time without any
problem. I then wanted to test Vista, which I installed on the 2nd hard
drive. Ever ...
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