Soldato
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- 17 Mar 2004
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Off sick yesterday bit bored, so installed my copy of Vista on my HTPC setup.
Installation was pretty swift, but as soon as I booted up for the first time I noticed that my backup drive was missing. After playing about for some time, and the help of rpstewart cheers mate
, I discovered that my drived needed to be converted to 'basic', 'dynamic' which it was setup as on my MCE2005 is not supported in the 'Premium' guise M$ 
Anyway put in my Norton Ghost from bootup, and was able to access my backup drive and save most of my data but was restricted on drive space PC 80GB Sata (Backup) 120GB!.
Now happy I had saved most of what I required by copying and pasting into a backup folder on the C:\ I then changed the backup 120GB drive to 'basic' and formatted.
Right now onto setting up my TV/Sound setup. Vista is good in this respect and found the correct drivers from the website, and installed them during the installation process.
So I went about launching media centre, and configuring my Sky connection etc. Compared to MCE2005 this was a quick easy process, with no codec etc issues as before.
Then the sound, unfortunatly the drivers from CMI do not enable the Toslink to work correctly, but after much searching on Google came across some homebrew drivers, which allow digital pass though so I have DD and DTS working.
TheaterTek - Slight pain, trying to get this to work, which required a lot of installation/deinstallation of both the software and FFDShow/AC3 filters. But this is also working.
Only thing left is that when viewing my videos in MCE, it crashes, which I have narrowed down to the Codecs for both DIVX and FFDShow enabling just to show thumbnails, something MCE 2005 did not do. I have looked on www.thegreenbutton.com and have seen others also affected, and see that there is a release of beta FFDShow which combats this issue. Going to have a look at this tommorrow.
So overall, quite impressed, the sleek gui is nice, and MCE guide is much improved with the mini guide option.
Worth upgrading?
Hmm not really not much has changed, with the fuctionality between 2005 and Vista.........but being slightly OEM exploit, it did not cost me anything, as the disk supplied with my laptop worked along with the OEM key which has activated with no issues.
Installation was pretty swift, but as soon as I booted up for the first time I noticed that my backup drive was missing. After playing about for some time, and the help of rpstewart cheers mate
, I discovered that my drived needed to be converted to 'basic', 'dynamic' which it was setup as on my MCE2005 is not supported in the 'Premium' guise M$ Anyway put in my Norton Ghost from bootup, and was able to access my backup drive and save most of my data but was restricted on drive space PC 80GB Sata (Backup) 120GB!.
Now happy I had saved most of what I required by copying and pasting into a backup folder on the C:\ I then changed the backup 120GB drive to 'basic' and formatted.
Right now onto setting up my TV/Sound setup. Vista is good in this respect and found the correct drivers from the website, and installed them during the installation process.
So I went about launching media centre, and configuring my Sky connection etc. Compared to MCE2005 this was a quick easy process, with no codec etc issues as before.
Then the sound, unfortunatly the drivers from CMI do not enable the Toslink to work correctly, but after much searching on Google came across some homebrew drivers, which allow digital pass though so I have DD and DTS working.
TheaterTek - Slight pain, trying to get this to work, which required a lot of installation/deinstallation of both the software and FFDShow/AC3 filters. But this is also working.
Only thing left is that when viewing my videos in MCE, it crashes, which I have narrowed down to the Codecs for both DIVX and FFDShow enabling just to show thumbnails, something MCE 2005 did not do. I have looked on www.thegreenbutton.com and have seen others also affected, and see that there is a release of beta FFDShow which combats this issue. Going to have a look at this tommorrow.
So overall, quite impressed, the sleek gui is nice, and MCE guide is much improved with the mini guide option.
Worth upgrading?
Hmm not really not much has changed, with the fuctionality between 2005 and Vista.........but being slightly OEM exploit, it did not cost me anything, as the disk supplied with my laptop worked along with the OEM key which has activated with no issues.