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Anyone experiencing their CD/DVD drive drawers opening randomly?
Carry the external drive around to each computer, and make an image (or use a DVD, like you said you would). I've not used TrueImage before, but I'll assume it is Windows Vista ... will come with a built-in disk-imaging tool: ImageX". THE SITUATION OF MY NETWORK IS THAT IS A WIRELESS NETWORK WITHOUT SERVER,

Reinstalling Windows on an OEM PC
Quad core processors should be showing up with some variety this year, and there is a slight chance that I could upgrade without having to start over again You need a DVD drive to install Vista (although there are Home Basic and Business versions available on CD instead of DVD), and you need a minimum of 15GB

Bootup Woes
I was a beta user and had the problem of trying to install Vista to SATA NVRAID Volume with a PATA (IDE) drive present as a storage only device as well. I'll mention here that I've heard of a tool out there that lets you re-write the MBR so that you can fix this problem without a re-install, but I've never

Vista Seemingly Random Reboots
The Vista install completes and the user removes the DVD. Upon startup, the user finds that Vista will not boot. Vista is looking for the boot code on the drive where the user had The problem is that I have no idea how to install Vista onto the SATA drive without it resulting in this restarting error cycle.

Install Vista from SATA DVD drive?
If your internal DVD doesn't work, you'd need to get a bootable external DVD drive (and, the BIOS on your laptop must support booting from the external drive - not all machines do this). There's no way to do a clean install, without booting from the DVD media. If you want to do an in-place upgrade from XP to Vista,

Install a fresh Copy of Vista Ultimate w/ Upgrade Disk Possible?
I've got my Vista disc and my old XP discs and would like to try installing again, but I can't use it because all the computer will recognize to boot from is the 3.5 diskette drive. Any ideas on a way to restore my computer to pre-Vista state? This is not a Vista issue. It can't impact access to the CD/DVD when the

XP Professional OEM to Vista Ultimate Upgrade Transferable?
Windows Vista ... will come with a built-in disk-imaging tool: ImageX". THE SITUATION OF MY NETWORK IS THAT IS A WIRELESS NETWORK WITHOUT SERVER, SO FOR MY CASE THE IDEAL SOLUTION WOULD BE TO MAKE AN IMAGE ON DVD OF EACH INDIVIDUAL PC WITH THE CONFIGURATION OF THE PC AND OF THE WIRELESS NETWORK POSITION WITH

Install Vista FROM HDD instead of DVD?
... then Vista started rebooting itself when it felt like it, sometimes when installing stuff from my sata dvd drive, sometimes when just installing stuff. and mouse connected at the moment, though I do have an internally connected panel that connects the power supply to the motherboard, I shall try without it.

Vista constantly rebooting after this week's updates - "Config
I did try to boot the win 98 install CD with the new CDROM drive without the floppy in it and it went no ware. Above you are showing a lot of C prompt commands I guess assuming I am beginning to wonder if the original DVD drive was OK and it is something else that also is not allowing the new CDROM to work.

How to delete XP partition
Stephen Petrowski bsa2...@adelphia.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup philo, Mike is trying to say is that Steve needs to backup all his data on the Any ideas on how to do this without losing anything? You cannot change the letter to C: Unless you go back and re-install to that drive.

Halflife 2 and Halflife 2 Episode One, insert disc problem ...
If there is you are good to go, the system will upgrade itself to 64 bit without affecting your movies, etc. If there isn'ta upgrade option, boot into to DVD, and when it asks where to install windows, select the drive with Vista. It should give you an option to either replace it or not.

Vista activated ITSELF with Auto Activation turned off!
What I want: To install Vista x64 Ultimate What I DO have: Working XP x86 Pro SP2, Image file of the DVD(copied the dvd on one of my friends' PC) What I do NOT have: DVD drive(that's bad, I know:confused:), removeable media, capable of mounting the DVD. So, I copied the Vista Ultimate x64 DVD to an image file.

Vista Ultimate crashes whenever a DVD is inserted
I can get to windows xppro if I use install cd and go to recovery and fix boot. After I reboot to vista home basic dvd and do repair startup. reboot and get options for Any help as to how I can change partition drive letter in vista to D: or how I can get them(op systems) to both boot without clean install?

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 02-04-07
The good part about the steam stuff, is that I keep my games on a another hard drive. If I re-install my OS or in this case, Install Vista, That worked for Episode One but with the regular HL2 Steam tells me to to a DVD install first. I't won't activate without the dvd install having taken place.

Unable to install vista (unexpected completing installation re
Didn't want to install off the original DVD by boot from CD, didn't either by installation from XP, copied the content of the DVD to a drive different from the one that i wanted to install vista to, without success. I tried to install on another drive, and it worked. Thing is, on the disk i wanted to install Vista

Vista entering reduced functionality mode without warning
Ensure you have the Vista DVD image emulated or in the DVD drive. Go to "Start" and "Run". Type in "e:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force" (without quotes, David wrote: Anyone install Vista, all by itself, then try to get rid of it ? 3 hours into it now, and cannot even format the drive it was on .

Partitions recognized with different drive letters - x32 vs x64?
philo ph...@privacy.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup "Stephen Petrowski" <bsa2...@adelphia.net> wrote in message Any ideas on how to do this without losing anything? You cannot change the letter to C: Unless you go back and re-install to that drive. However: it will not hurt anything to

Are You Ready For Vista™? Microcenter
I finally find an old DVD drive that does not do this and install vista. Now that it is running, I cannot use the drive at all. The above also rules out the MB has it can detect them and use them, so long as it's not vista. I installed Linux Ubuntu from the same drive without a problem (On the same MB) Any

Installing Vista on SATA drive
Had to re-install Vista, but now the "CD sleeve" is put away. Thank you for your posts. "Dizzledorf" wrote: Finally, I disconnected everything save for my primary SATA Raptor drive, ran the Windows repair on that... and now I can finally slip that Vista DVD back in its sleeve. Thanks for the pointers, guys.

Can I restore Windows 98 from an USB external CR-rom drive?
Hi, I just received my Vista Business DVD (thanks, Power Together!) and installed Vista on a freshly formatted NTFS partition on my 36GB WD Raptor SATA drive. The install has gone well. However, I cannot boot my computer without the original (won't recognize a backup I made) DVD in the drive on bootup.