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Computer wont boot..... help please
... http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/microsoft-weighs-in-on-save-xp-petition-sort-of/ and most amusing... low piracy rates of vista intreptreted as a good thing it has to have improvements over XP that I will use or I won't bother to switch (except for perhaps a dual boot/2nd drive, to satisfy my curiousity).

Vista frozen after vista updates installed
XP is faster and better on the same hardware my a margine of at least 20%... and whatever you feed vista in ram it wont get better especially in the case of A client of mine who has dual boot keeps telling me how slow vista is, an a very fast 2 core machine with 2 gigs of ram... each time I go to his place for

insp 1501 help
I want it to boot into XP by default, I only want to boot to Vista, by making the selection to do so. Ok,while in Vista, below is what is shown under computer: Won't hurt. The ideal thing would be to simply do a fresh install of Vista from the XP desktop but I can understand that you might not want to do that.

How to delete XP partition
No, I have ONE drive with three partitions, C, D, E. I had a dual boot XP (on C) and Vista (on E) . First was XP, Vista installation through XP. .... my XP parition, will my Vista partition suddenly decide that it's the C partition and not the F partition--which I think it ought to be, but won't that mess up some

System will not boot
I only get a disc-read-error upon first reboot (after expanding files) because Vista quite obviously fails to install a proper boot-sector after removing the old XP-Boot-sector. Why that happens? Who knows? But since this hardly can be any error due to driver issues or installed software it must be something

Vista 64 dual boot changing drive letter
50 Ways to leave your Vista.... 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 discuss much Install XP, Lee And get yourself free "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsrepl...@jonathankay.com> wrote in message

As usual Vista sucks
Let's revisit what I just posted, then: As said, the key point is: they all load the boot sector of the active partition. So when you install xp after vista, the key point is to restore the boot sector. If you don't, you can write all the MBRs you want, they won't fix your problem.

vista seems very sensitive to hardware changes
I have a problem with my Windows XP Professional operating system. I get an error message every time when my PC is going through its normal boot process. vista policy violation: Microsoft optical mouse detected penguin patterns on mousepad. Partition scan in progress to remove offending incompatible products.

Reset Password
I have a Seagate diagnostic program that I have used many times to scan drives, used in the XP system. When I tried to use it in Vista, Vista rejected the program. Yeah, I considered it myself at one time to satisfy someone who was pushing Ubuntu on me but my system won't boot from a USB device.

Ext HD triggers new device, Won't install
And my wife will only be using XP, so she won't be confused by having the choice of which os to boot into, it will automatically boot into XP for her. If it works for you then you are good to go. my memory is bad but I'm sure Vista did set up some kind of boot screen which let me select which op system I wanted to

Vista Ultimate - wont boot anymore
There is a lot of info about installing Windows XP and Vista on the Intel Macs using Boot Camp on Apple's site. If you had READ the articles on their site you wouldn't have had the problems that you did. Even installing Windows you need to follow instructions or you'll have problems. You just don't stick a disc in

Windows update to Vista then wont boot
Checked Toshiba web and found that neither available BIOS works with XP! They pulled a Steve Jobs on me by not being backward compatible with software! If I wanted an Apple... BTW, you don't want Vista right now... Anyway, read your BIOS notes and use the appropriate latest for XP. (After installing XP, dual- boot

Dual boot - remove one OS.
Jason jason...@gmail.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Hi Yes the main board worked fine with Windows XP Pro installed. microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 1:06 AM Subject: Re: Vista wont boot with 2x 512 Ram modules "Jason" <jason...@gmail.com>

xp wont boot after ghosting
I've got a dual boot system and this runs perfectly well in XP pro, I've tried installing different drivers and uninstalling the hardware etc. I've tried running the hotfix drivers from the sapphire website and it still won't work, any ideas out there? -- Mike S.

Cannot Delete Shortcut from Desktop!!
... os windows-xp On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:55:27 -0600, "Just Another User" <latinl...@comcast.net> wrote: You dont say what happens when it wont boot any error Perhaps with Longhorn (aka Vista) there was a chance that it would be replaced with MSH (aka Monad) but that's been pulled therefore once again the long

Best Way to partition for dual boot XP
Hi, It begins the boot process, the little rectangle with the cycling green blocks 'almost' apears and it reboots. I can do a new vista instal but it wont accept my key... I suspect my 'reinstal' problems are down to the double-upgrade (xp to Vista-B to Vista-U). The mobo change was from a p4s800-mx-se (2.8G P4) to

vista just wont start up
If I had to rely on XP, I'd probably stick the computer in the attic and never touch it again. I never tried Vista, and from what I have heard about it, I wont. Maybe a Mac is in my future, but for now the plan is to have a friend help me set up a dual boot with 98 and 2K. I guess I'll have to learn to live with

error loading operating system
If I try to disconnect my old regular ATA IDE drive but leave the SATA drive plugged in by itself, Windows Vista won’t boot. What is the deal here? How come I can have the SATA by itself as the third master and install WINDOWS XP with no problems and have a workable system, but VISTA doesn’t install.

Vista won't load and enters reboot loop
Be aware, when you first assemble and boot it up, it will probably default to 800 mhz, you'll want to go in and change the speed to 1066 mhz and set the timings Be aware, with a 32 bit OS, like Windows XP or Vista, it won't recognize all 4gb as being available, it will see only app 3.25 gb, and reserve some of

Dual booting Vista SP1 and XP SP2
But it still wont boot into windows proper..Any Ideas.. It just hangs..Forever.. Thanks You might want to try posting this in a public Vista group, your newsreader at: msnews.microsoft.com I think some 6800 cards have problems with any drivers rated 8x.xx and it affects both 2000/XP/XP64 and Vista apparantely.