nightmare vista install

waveydave79

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I just had a really bad expierence with vista. I have 2 hard disks both IDE I have cleaned both drivers and installed Vista on the master 80GB Vista went on fine, no problems, although I didnt like the driver support and its really bad for gaming at the moment so I wanted to dual boot with XP... This is where the problem starts.

Little did I know that XP would hate going on slave drive, and the horrors ahead. I booted from the xp disk, to save time did a quick format of my slave 40 GB drive it did the first restart and then said "error loading os" Neither vista or xp would load.

To make things worse and this is where I really got worried. It tried to boot from the XP disk again to do a full format this time, it said "Setup is inspecting youre computers configuration", and just sat there, NO boot! darm!

- I tried changing the IDE cables no luck, swap tested the CD rom and tried another CD rom. NO LUCK! of course I m now thinking the worse,

- Tried installing vista again that got to the first restart and then would stall.

I fixed this problem by booting of a disk doctor cd, and did 0 write to the hdd (Primary), removed the second hdd, hey presto I have a clean system again and now its doing the full format.

Maybe it was me cutting corners not doing a full format, could have been becuase windows xp was in the slave drive I dont know. I just think this is really wieird. Hopefully I will have xp back up and running. It has made me think again about buying vista for now!!!

David.
 
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You want to cut the swearies out first ;)


I installed Vista the other way round, after XP, and it worked ok. But they are on the same HDD, just a different partition.


And XP will not mind being onthe slave either.

Are your jumpers on the hard disks set to Master/Slave?
If so, change them both to CS and try that.
 
xp will be fine installed to another drive, but it does need to be installed first. Vista has a new boot menu system, that xp installer has no idea how to integrate with which is why things fell apart.
 
I installed the Vista Beta 2 yesterday 'just to see what it was like'.

It literally took about 12 hours. Won't be doing that again. Hello XP.
 
koolcrusader said:
Not Vistas fault.
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What what it then? I'm keen to know - was it really my hardware [check sig]? Or maybe the fact that upgrading and keeping all my files took it a while [even though my hard drive is only about 20GB full].
 
Lysander said:
What what it then? I'm keen to know - was it really my hardware [check sig]? Or maybe the fact that upgrading and keeping all my files took it a while [even though my hard drive is only about 20GB full].
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I have installed Beta's and RTM copies of Vista and none of them took more than 40 minutes tops. Its much quicker than 2000 or XP on installation.
 
It seems to take an age if you upgrade XP to Vista. If you do a clean install it will take no longer than 40 mins.
 
Right, thank you. I don't feel so bad now.

Tonight when I'm at the dual boot screen I'll take the 'earlier version of Windows' option. This Beta is far too slow and annoying for me. I'll wait till the final.

EDIT - will there be an upgrade from XP option on the final version too? Hopefully it won't take as long to install...
 
Lysander said:
EDIT - will there be an upgrade from XP option on the final version too? Hopefully it won't take as long to install...
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Only if you buy the upgrade version and not an OEM etc. I always advise against upgrading an OS, in my experience its much better to backup and do a clean install.
 
Lysander said:
Right, thank you. I don't feel so bad now.

Tonight when I'm at the dual boot screen I'll take the 'earlier version of Windows' option. This Beta is far too slow and annoying for me. I'll wait till the final.

EDIT - will there be an upgrade from XP option on the final version too? Hopefully it won't take as long to install...
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are you saying the actual os is slow?

Seems strange. as with others ive installed it on my main rig and just this morning on a brand new sony vaio, both installs only took 20mins and the os is fast as you like. much better than xp.
 
By 'slow' I meant the whole process of drivers not being compatible and needing updating; AVG saying its not compatible; being asked twenty times for 'permission' to perform actions. Granted this is more likely to happen at the beginning of an upgrade than any other time, but I can't be bothered to go through it.
 
i'v been using XP and Vista for while, XP is on C: partition and needs to be installed first, then u can install Vista on D: partition or seperate HDD and it will install a new bootloader on C: which will let u select "Previous Windows" or Vista
 
This is the Beta 2 I'm using since as far as I can remember I didn't get round to downloading RC1 or RC2. What are the main difference in speed/compatibility/stability between these builds?
 
you just need to look at some of the websites that tell you how to stop all the questions etc. as far drivers i was surprised it installed on this new laptop but its running flawlessly.
 
Lysander said:
I installed the Vista Beta 2 yesterday 'just to see what it was like'.

It literally took about 12 hours. Won't be doing that again. Hello XP.
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The vista install is far faster than XP's, must be something else causing the prob
 
When i tried to install RC2 it just froze at the bit where it started copying files after selecting what drive to install it on
 
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