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willhub said:
Did I say that? No, but the main part is in the PC... Yes there is printers, external HDD's, usb tablets. I have USB Graphics Tablets, printers, scanners and I admit the scanner is not compatible with Vista 64 or 32, the tablets work with Vista 32 but not with Vista 64 I dont think, good job I dont use them, external HDD's, USB Hubs, USB Memory sticks, headphones, keybaords and mouses all are usually plug and play so no problem.
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but my point is usb devices can make it unstable.. not only hardware inside.. i had a wintv usb box and it made vista crash a lot..
 
vista is too early in its infancy to declare it an os than never crashes. thats just plain inaccurate, even if you yourself dont have problems with it.


most problems are driver related, but to see just how much IS wrong with vista, you only have to check the fix list for sp1...
 
Ive only ever crashed due to cpu/gpu overclocking. Never actually Vista's fault. Howevere, some of the not responding scenarios are Vista's fault. But i remember getting a few of those in XP now and again.
 
maxtoon said:
agreed, I had been using XP pro for many years but now have converted to Vista64 Premium. It is extremely stable in ways XP can only dream of.

It is a far better OS to use and has never crashed once in 6 months.

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:)

and I've had Vista since April and apparently it has came a long way since then, though I've not had any issues at all. :D
 
lol this thread turned into a vista battlethread! - anyway im really undecided about getting a new pc, the main reason is that i like xp and i have a lot of software installed on this pc that i dont want to lose/couldnt be arsed finding and installing on a new pc. So somebody told me about a program called norton ghost, which i could use to literally 'copy and paste' my old pc onto a new pc. Eg would this be possible?

The new pc i am looking at has windows vista installed and it will not allow me to select windows xp. As far as i know the pc has 2 x 500gb hardrives

My current pc has windows xp media center - could I by using a program like norton ghost, install my old pc on one of the 500gb hardrives on the new pc and then use the other 500gb hardrive for windows vista? i.e a dual boot

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Dual booting would be an option but from the sound of things you may need a little help setting things up, these forums would be a good place to start unless you have a friend who is good with these things :)

As for using Ghost I'm not sure; but I would imagine that it works best if you wanted to move an install of windows to a different hard drive connected to the same machine... It may still work but as suggested you will have to do a complete driver clean/install. Do a google search for Norton Ghost and see what the it comes up with.
 
@ Meathman 007

Mate, just copy all your old files to the new PC, things such as movies, music etc and just install the programmes from scratch. I mean it takes no time at all to download and install programmes etc from the net / discs.

With regards to Vista / XP it is a personal preference, but as already pointed out some people have small issues, other people have zero. I have personally had no problems with Vista 64-Bit.

Please also bear in mind that XP is near the end of it's natural cycle, the reason you can not select the XP option is most PC's are sold with Vista, as it is the new operating system.

Once you get you new PC you could just plug in your old hard drive and copy and paste the files onto your new hard drive, although this will not work for programmes.

Hope this helps.
 
meathman 007 said:
lol this thread turned into a vista battlethread! - anyway im really undecided about getting a new pc, the main reason is that i like xp and i have a lot of software installed on this pc that i dont want to lose/couldnt be arsed finding and installing on a new pc. So somebody told me about a program called norton ghost, which i could use to literally 'copy and paste' my old pc onto a new pc. Eg would this be possible?

The new pc i am looking at has windows vista installed and it will not allow me to select windows xp. As far as i know the pc has 2 x 500gb hardrives

My current pc has windows xp media center - could I by using a program like norton ghost, install my old pc on one of the 500gb hardrives on the new pc and then use the other 500gb hardrive for windows vista? i.e a dual boot

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it won't work if u just copy windows from one system to another because of the different motherboard/chipset. you'll need to do a clean install...

as for dual booting, i will recommand 2 ways..
1. u could use a program like BootIT NG or os selector..
2. u could make 2 partitions on your drive then make 1 of the partitions active then install windows e.g xp or vista then after finish installing windows make the other partition active then install the other windows then when u wanna go in to let say vista u just need to make that partition active...

both ways i recommand because if one OS mess's up it doesn't take the other OS down with it..
 
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