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Question on installing Vista 64 bit with 4gb of ram?
Days later, another guy at Dell led me through a test of my lowest hard drive. It had sector errors, he thought too many, and recommended I buy a new hard drive. upgrade to XP or Vista before it's too late! My suggestion was the run the manufacturer's diagnostic on the drive... looks like you never did that.

Not having the correct permission
When XP loads, open up Windows Explorer and youll see something interesting aC: and (in this case) an E: drive. The C: drive contains Windows Vista, and as Windows XP can read NTFS partitions, it can browse and modify Vistas file structure. More importantly, applications which have installation paths hard-coded

extending the C: partition
I was thinking of installing the CMS Pro program but backed off "cause it may not be compatible with Vista. I was planning to e-mail CMS to obtain necessary info then decided to hold off for a while anyway. The CMS backup system requires an exclusive hard drive and a second internal drive is best used.

Vista Revisited
In my situation my main XP pc's hard drive crashed and needed to be replaced, and my very old backup XP pc's cd drive is no longer working. Since the two Files & Settings Transfer programs (XP & Vista) are not compatible, and my earlier thoughts of upgrading the now backup XP system to vista is no longer an

Vista / XP dual partition?
Incidentally, this may be overly simplistic -- but have you checked to be sure that your thumb drive is Vista compatible? Vista compatable? Who do you trust? Regardless of the source: CD, Thumb drive, Card through camera, card through reader and to a degree even from the hard drive. The Vista file system is to

Downgrading Vista to XP -- SATA
I have a lot of software that is either not compatible with Vista, or is very costly to buy the upgrade for it to work with Vista. Can'tI zero the hard drive and do a fresh install of XP or is there something in the BIOS that doesn't allow me to install anything but Vista or some other feature that prevents

Slow Hard Drive
I went for speed with the 100G 7200 hard drive giving up the additional 60G I would have had with the slower one. Initial setup of Vista: - It went No glitches there from Vista to XP (I have not tried the reverse yet). - None of the uninstalls caused problems on reboot like on prior Dell XP systems (I think

Allan
For one thing, if you are running HD Tach in compatibility mode, can you be sure you are getting accurate results? Hi I have Vista Ultimate, my PC is a Dual Core Pentium Extreme 3.2 Gig with 4Gig RAM. I have two SATA Hard Drives, both Western Digital, my C: Drive is a 10000RPM the second drive is 7200RPM,

What created the Vista problem in the first place?
cheen ch...@microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general there are many programs (over 1000) that I have on a seperate hard drive and those are the I'm not a system engineer but I know it is possible to run in Vista a program released for XP, I think this is called "compatibility" - the program calls a

Avoiding program duplication with XP and Vista
Bootskins is so not compatible with Vista at this time. Find yourself a *nix LiveCD, boot to that, and then browse the Vista file system to delete the file Attach the correct hard disk or insert the last backup DVD and then start the restore process again" so i put in my flash drive to see if i could trick it

Vista is a peice of %^$#@!!!!
XP can't format a large drive as FAT32 (I don't know about Vista). Intentional limitation of XP placed there by Microsoft to discourage using FAT32 because it is compatible with other non-Microsoft operating systems. So if you repartition the drive, one for NTFS and one for FAT32, you may need to use Linux to

Installing XP over Vista
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Vista-XP-Downgrade-Rights-Hot-Microsoft-Subject-57931.shtml Dell casts doubts on Vista ,----[ Quote ] | Dell today revealed that it will restore the option to use Windows XP on | some of its home .... So unless you have an IDE hard drive, don't even bother to | follow the next steps.

Which external hard drive?
WARNING: Using fdisk to "resize" or recreate a partition will effectively destroy what ever information you have on your hard drive. .... </WinVista/servicecfg.htm> Windows XP Service Pack 2 Services </WinXP/servicecfg.htm> Windows 2000 Services </WIN2K/servicecfg.htm> Latest Guides: Windows Vista Install Guide

[Rival] Windows Vista SP1 Slow, A Step Back (Says Windows ...
"larryinaz" wrote: 2008 Trend Micro Internet Security is NOT is compatible with Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 I have deleted all of the old 2007 and new I do not want more messages, screen shots, replies, deletes, uninstalls and then reinstalling any more files...in my computer, hard drive or registry.

Trying to unistall Office XP Media
I have the MS ME OS on a FAT32 hard drive there. XP Business Office suite works fine on this MS ME. This desktop is beginning to crater; one of the 2 hard drives already has bad sectors. The monitor which was already originally a refurb is about 8-9 years old. New Vista - I also have a 32bit Vista Ultimate on a new

Vista (Dual Boot)
The hard disk is preconfigured for Windows 2000 and Windows XP, with a NTFS format. For Mac,Windows 98 and Windows ME, the hard disk needs to be formatted to Ik begrijp uit uw e-mail dat u wilt weten of de SPE3031CC externe schijf compatible is met Windows Vista. De schijf zelf is compatible met Windows Vista.

XP or Vista
Not from MS website on 64-bit programming. They have this backwards compatibility issue to deal with. It is true that Vista supports 32-bit apps. .... It is the hard drive holding back some aspects of performance or the slow speed of the memory bus. I do notice that the newer PCs coming out are improving on their

UAC
Thanks. cc Do you have one hard drive or two? Many DV9xxx models have two. If so, then you can copy any data files you have on the second drive to the first. Then remove the first and put the second in its place. Then you can install XP on the second drive and easily go back to Vista if you have a problem.

Vista is a peice of %^$#@!!!!
There's nothing inherent in Vista to prevent any averagely knowledgeable user from seeing everything on his/her hard drive. I have a 4 month old Lenovo T61 think pad. Could this be downgraded to XP and how? And what has Lenovo had to say when you contacted them for warranty support? It's your computer, so the

SP1 Opinions
Does anyone know what this means and how I can fix it? I tried using the compatibility wizard but got the same error. Please and Thanks! Cin This is a known (sometimes) bug in the Office 2007 install. Try copying the entire CD to a scratch folder on your hard drive and install from there.