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Thread starter i-hate-vista Start date Feb 17, Status This thread has been Locked and is not open to further replies. The original thread starter may use the Report button to request it be reopened but anyone else with a similar issue should start a New Thread. Watch our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Joined Feb 1, Messages 7. Hi there. I bought Dell notebook with Vista. All worked good,but sometimes BSoDs appears.
I decideed to re-install Vista first. The installation process works fine until after the 1st reboot that goes to "completing installation".
Joined Feb 17, Messages 6. What is this I love Vista and u not, even in your signature it gives ideas of views about your attitude towards Vista. Windows XP is greatest tradegy in PC history. Win XP. Gulo Luseus. Joined May 12, Messages 2, What sort of BSODs were you getting? Some are fixed easier than others. If you want XP, then make sure all the hardware has drivers- new computers are often made for vista, and drivers may not be available.
If that works, I would suggest, as you said, wiping everything, then install XP as normal from the disk- dont use a slipstream version for this- , then install Vista from within XP, you should find it works fine.
Trying it the other way round is a real pain. Gulo Luseus said:. Joined Sep 28, Messages 3, I would give full compliments to the author, if I could remember their name If a new computer arrived in your recent past, or you plan to buy one in the near future, chances are it will come with Windows Vista installed. Although some manufacturers still give you the option of getting XP on your new system, that option is likely to dry up for most consumers later this year when Microsoft stops selling Windows XP.
If you're not ready to dive into Vista all at once, there is an answer: set up your Vista computer to dual-boot between Vista and XP.
In a separate article coming soon, I'll give you some additional tips that save disk space on a dual-boot system. Although some sources, such as Computer Shopper Magazine, advise that you need an add-on product like VistaBootPro to dual-boot, you can accomplish the same thing without any additional software other than the two operating systems.
In addition, it's a good idea to make a complete system backup before beginning an operation like this. Once you've laid that groundwork, you're ready to go to work: Step 1.
In Vista, click Start, type diskmgmt. Click Continue if prompted by User Account Control. Step 2. Right-click a drive and choose Shrink Volume. Specify the amount to shrink, which in this case is the amount you want for your XP partition.
At a minimum, you'll need around 2. I suggest you select a larger partition to leave room for updates and other files that may need to be on the same drive as XP. Because I wanted a 5GB partition, I typed representing 5, megabytes in the available box.
Click Shrink. Step 3. Right-click the newly available area and choose New Simple Volume. Follow the steps in the wizard to assign a drive letter now, or wait until the next step.
Something very bizarre has happenned. Laptop running quite satisfactorily in Vista last night was shut down at about midnight. Booted up this evening and it came up in XP. I don't believe for one minute that we didnt do something, but I have no idea what. Its the wifes laptop, she hasnt installed anything, wouldnt know how and I dont give her those permissions, but that doesnt mean that she didnt select something on boot up.
It has brought forward network connections, but has lost email profiles and files etc. Any ideas what happenned and how I can get back to Vista?? Maybe she just hit the wrong button during startup. Posted by: Nish Rana 10 Sep Posted by: haseeb 11 Sep Posted by: sbrobbs 05 Oct Hi, I bought a second hand Alienware Aurora M laptop with vista home premium already on it. Wanted to install xp pro on a new gb hardrive.
Before doing this contacted alienware support they said I need to change some bios settings but would not tell me what as they did not support second hand systems. Posted by: sbrobbs 09 Oct Hi ED, Did try it it seemed to install fine until I came to update the drivers.
I've never seen this before. I also tried to run a diagnostic program to tell me what was on my system but all it did was open a black window for a split second and then nothing but this worked fine on my desktop.
Posted by: Raj 18 Oct Posted by: Barry 02 Dec I could not get XP to boot up and making that one change fixed my problem. You da man! Posted by: Cat Cooter 11 Feb I havce Vista on a Dell inspiron and hate it. Nothing but issues. I have all my music stored on an external seagate drivce and can unplug it but will it still work right? We can also copy everything off my computer and save it to a harddrive to reinstall, pictures etc.
Will this work? FInal problem. I have a Seagate 1. It was working fine. I downloaded many anime full series on it and used it for back up then it quit doing the back ups. Next it said there was new software. After we installed the new software it totally screwed up my computer. It took my husband hours to get it working again, but the Seagate cannot be used. I think we need drivers? Is it possible to fix this or am I just screwed, and will trying to downgrade to xp make things worse?
I'm most concerned at this point about getting my big external running again. It's tricky even for tech savvy folks. At this point, I would check the Seagate website to get the latest Vista drivers for your device.
Posted by: Garry 12 Apr Posted by: Ryan 20 Apr I'm trying to downgrade upgrade a dell from vista home basic to xp pro. The xp disk is original and is from another computer. The computer I'm trying to put xp on is a dell that a friend gave me. His wife insisted that I wipe the hard drive right away but they didn't know where the original factory disks where. I figured it was no big deal and I would just over write everthing using the xp disk.
I got as far as the part where they ask for the product key, typed it in but no matter how many times I checked and double checked it would not except the number. I call MS tech support they passed me around from one hard to understand operator to another for about an hour I finally hung up on my 5th operator while she was in the middle of telling me some irelevancie that I had all ready heard from 3 prior operators. I've been looking around to see if anyone eles has had the same prob so far they havn't.
I saw in several differant places instructions that involve choosing the f2 start up going to drives, then sata options and pick one of the two choises. The problem with that is for some reason those options arn't on mine The bios is 1. All there is is the cmos features,advanced bios features boot dev.
So far in everthing I've read not one person seemed to have trouble finding these options and in all of the downgrade trouble I've read about so far none of the people where able to get as far as the product key part. So now I'm confused and stuck with as nicer computer I can't use until my buddy brings the disk but, there's no telling when that'll happen.
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