Hi Guys..
This weekend I spent having a play with Vista and Win7 to see if my main rig (really old spec which I won't go into!!) will run them so I can see if 7 is really better than Vista (don't want to debate at the mo!!)..
Now my system had Ubuntu installed on it onto an old 20Gb ATA drive with 200Gb ATA (bit flakey) and a 250Gb SATA drives as storage for Music/Video etc...
Now I backed up everything externally and using GParted wiped the two big drives, then rebooted with the Vista Disk in the DVD drive and formatted the 20Gb for install, only to find out that 20Gb is a little tight!..
But everything worked nicely it booted no problems..
So I decided to do a re-install on the 250Gb SATA drive (as the 200Gb isn't to be trusted to run an OS).. I partitioned the drive in half so I could also install Win7 later and it went fine...
Now remember the Drives were wiped and formatted before I started fettling with Vista!..
Once the install had finnished I rebooted (after installing some drivers) and for some reason the Boot screen said 'Loading Grub' and then 'Grub Error 22' and thats as far as it got!!..
I tried re-ordering the HDD priority in the BIOS (puttung the 20Gb last and the 250Gb first) but it wouldn't boot into Vista!..
Needless to say I rebooted (in disgust) with the Ubuntu disk in the DVD and re-installed that with no problems and its currently running (and booting) on the 125Gb partition that Vista wouldn't without a hi-cup!!..
Anyone know what I might have done wrong??.. apart from trying to install Vista!!..
Cheers
Sim
This weekend I spent having a play with Vista and Win7 to see if my main rig (really old spec which I won't go into!!) will run them so I can see if 7 is really better than Vista (don't want to debate at the mo!!)..
Now my system had Ubuntu installed on it onto an old 20Gb ATA drive with 200Gb ATA (bit flakey) and a 250Gb SATA drives as storage for Music/Video etc...
Now I backed up everything externally and using GParted wiped the two big drives, then rebooted with the Vista Disk in the DVD drive and formatted the 20Gb for install, only to find out that 20Gb is a little tight!..
But everything worked nicely it booted no problems..
So I decided to do a re-install on the 250Gb SATA drive (as the 200Gb isn't to be trusted to run an OS).. I partitioned the drive in half so I could also install Win7 later and it went fine...
Now remember the Drives were wiped and formatted before I started fettling with Vista!..
Once the install had finnished I rebooted (after installing some drivers) and for some reason the Boot screen said 'Loading Grub' and then 'Grub Error 22' and thats as far as it got!!..
I tried re-ordering the HDD priority in the BIOS (puttung the 20Gb last and the 250Gb first) but it wouldn't boot into Vista!..
Needless to say I rebooted (in disgust) with the Ubuntu disk in the DVD and re-installed that with no problems and its currently running (and booting) on the 125Gb partition that Vista wouldn't without a hi-cup!!..
Anyone know what I might have done wrong??.. apart from trying to install Vista!!..
Cheers
Sim
