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Hope you can get a solution to this, I don't know if you had something like this before. I have searched the web over & over and can not find a solution.
Some background:
I installed xp on a 30gig Ide hhd (C:) then vist ultimate on 80gig Ide hhd (F:) (ran it as duel boot system - worked very well), used a 120gig Sata hhd (D:) for backup date & 250gig sata hhd (E:) for music files.
Found Ide hhd for vista tooooo slow. Using norton ghost 14 made backups of both os & saved the backups on 250gig hhd.
Then restored the ghost image of vista to the 120gig sata drive (after coping all the data to dvd discs and formatting the hhd and removed the drive letter in comp management / disk management (In both os) and the hhd appeared to be hidden before the restoration)
Restart & would go back to the 80gig hhd for vista os, so I unpluged the 80gig hhd and restart...XP boots just fine but vista gave me error and asked for repair with vista cd & restart. Ran the repair to the boot setup and the got vista to boot, up to welcome screen - enter the password and the screen turns blue (But not the regular BLUE SCREEN) and massage apears "prepairing desktop". On Ctrl, Alt, Del I select to run task manager ( to set Shell=Explore.exe in the registry as some sugested) but nothing apears but the blue screen even if I run the task manager.
Booted from vista disc again ran repair my computer with nothing but the same blue screen.
So not a pain I said I'll plug in the 80 gig hhd, unplug the 120gig hhd and the system will run like before, booting sould not be a problem because I now had 2 hhd's with the same drive letter, but must just plug or unplug one at a time before restart.
To my suprise I could now find the same blue screen on the 80gig hhd(Vista version) (I never changed any thing on this drive except unplug it) so I think the problem is in xp or in the boot setup.
By the way in xp I can still see the 120gig hhd in disc management but not in my computer and now suddenly the 250 gig hhd can not be found at all, although I found it in ghost but it is unavailable. Problem is that the ghost images to restore is on that hhd!
Have not looked @ Bios yet, but do you think thats the route to go? and is there a way to see hidden hhd's
Can do a clean installation of vista but its painstaking to install all the app's again and, and, and....all the e-mail date etc. is still in there
Questions?
1. Is there any hope of fixing vista and xp for that matter at all?
2. If I do Vista fresh will I be able to restore files and settings using ghost 14? (By the way ghost 14 is trail version and does not give me option to coppy disk)
Here's how :
1. Restored my computer To the 120gig drive using ghost 14 - Restart
2. When I got prompted to run the vista disk for a repair I did it - Restart
3. Then using Easy BCD from Neosmart technologies edited the boot loader - Restart
And BOB is your uncle! It worked
The 80gig hhd has no letter assighned to it but that is easy to fix
Tanx for all you that tried to help me, you are my HERO's
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Yes, You can dual boot Windows XP and Vista but you'll be having problem finding drivers if you install Windows XP on this computer since Windows XP supported drivers aren't available on Hp download page. HP has only Windows Vista and Windows 7 drivers for this System.
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Good Luck.
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Hi shuklapawan,
I looked for the specs on the software but could not find the system requirements. You might want to call Oracle and ask if the software is compatible with your Operating Sysytem (Vista, Windows 7). The phone number is 1-800-423-0245
While I was unable to find the official system requirements for Primavera's P3, from the few article I read on it, I don't believe that it is Vista or Windows 7 compatible.Also it is not really a 32 bit 64 bit issue, 64 bit systems run 32 bit software all the time, in fact there are many more 32 bit programs running on 64 bit systems than 64 bit software, due largely to the fact that the software companies are are just now starting to program 64 bit software. This is an Operating System compatibility issue. If you absolutely have to run P3, you might consider installing XP as an additional OS on your HDD with duel booting and running P3 in XP.Hope this helps
To re-install Windows Vista please do the following:
Put the disc in and restart the computer
Boot from the disc
Do a full system install
Delete your partition [contains Ubuntu(Linux)]
and install.
I recently did this last week, went from Ubuntu back to windows 7, and currently I duel-boot both Operating Systems. I hope this helps!
Please don't forget to rate :), Thanks!
Right click on the DMM shortcut and choose Properties.
Click the Compatibility tab.
Under Compatibility Mode switch on the Run this program in compatibility mode for: checkbox, and choose the appropriate operating system e.g. Windows XP (Service Pack 2). Then click OK
4. Click on the DMM icon like normal it should then install.
CHECK WITH
YOUR SYSTEM MANUFACTURER WHETHER OR NOT YOUR WARRANTY IS VOIDED IF YOU
INSTALL AND DUAL BOOT WITH WINDOWS XP. MANY OF THE NEWER SYSTEMS ARE
DESIGNED AND CONFIGURED TO ONLY RUN WINDOWS VISTA. HARDWARE ON YOUR
SYSTEM MAY NOT BE DESIGNED TO RUN WINDOWS XP.
make sure you have taken all the backup of your data from your system bcoz xp will not overwrite on vista you need to be format your drive which will erase your data. for installing windowx xp you need win xp cd as well as all the driver for win xp bcoz the driver is diffrent for vista and win xp .
if you have windows xp bootable cd just place in your cd-rom or in dvd rom .and go to bios setup (bios setup is just press the del button from your keyboard or f2 key it is display whrn you start your system )and change the booting sequnce from hdd to cd rom when it will boot from cd one massage will come press any key to continue just press the space bar and follow the setup instruction .
if you need more help let me know
bye
This adapter is obviously not compatable with Vista as it was originally used in Win98, Win2000 and XP and there are no drivers on this site for Vista.
http://www.targus.com/us/drivers_manuals.asp?SKU=ACB10US
For the price of a new Vista compatible Bluetooth adapter it's not worth re installing another operating system as all adapters should have all the same uses as each other.
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