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Vista install on old crashed hard drive
Any other folders in "AppData" store data that will be reacreated when you re-install an application. If there IS some user data there, This is what my user folder looks like: * Volume in drive C is Vista x64 Volume Serial Number is 18A6-E51B* * Directory of C:\Users\Peter Dzomlija* *11/02/2008 15:33 <DIR> .

MB Upgrade
Especially since people are scrapping fully functional machines just to run Vista. A backup doesn't have to reside in another computer to be "elsewhere"! Install your original harddrive as the secondary HD. Boot up your machine from the new drive, and then read your documents from your old drive.

SATA - PATA Hard drive issues
If not, I'd like to know how (basically install order and filesystem types) to install Windows 98 and NT on a single harddrive. My goal is to have Win 98/NT on the first drive and Linux on the second harddrive, but I need to know how to get 98 and NT to coexist. TIA -- Mark Wagnon Chula Vista, CA mwagn...@home.com.

Upgrade Clean Install? 32-Bit to 64-Bit?
Info will be very helpful if I cannot install directly from DVD to the partition setup for Vista. RickC "Richard Eagle" wrote: On this computer with XP (32 bit) w/SP2 , I installed the full retail version of Vista HP (32 bit) on a second hard drive. My XP drive has C, D and E partitions on it. I setup a new 2nd

Second Wubi install
retired fire retiredf...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Have you tried making a Complete PC Backup to your second hard drive and then restoring it using the Vista DVD???? I suspect it will not work on your computer either.......... Would be curious to know if you were sucessfull in

Dual Boot
I have two 250 GB Sata hard drives on my Vista system. I'm trying to use the "Backup Computer" utility to backup my computer to my 2nd hard drive (D:). It only allows the backup to go to my DVD drive. When I installed Vista Ultimate on this clean system, I had the Vista install process format both drives as NTFS,

True Image 11 back up C: Restore to D: then boot to D:
XP pro, sees it's partition as drive C. When I boot into Vista, which I have on it's own hard drive, it too see's it's partition as C. I tried using VistaBootPro. When I launch it from within Vista, I first get an error message that " there is no vista installed, or it is on a hidden partition".

Computer Backup to 2nd hard drive
Dave -- Dave "Arne" wrote: Jonathan, Johathan, Make sure you have at least two partitions on the hard drive. Use the C partition for the OS and put all of Jonathan-- I haven't needed to do a repair install of Vista, but doing a repair install might work which is not the same as upgrading Vista on top of Vista.

FAQ? (or how to install multiple OSes)
Try removing the second hard drive. Turn off the SLI functions in your BIOS. And, if you can, install with only 2GB of ram. Install with updates turned off. I keep getting an error while trying to install vista x64. This is a new system and I'm installing xp pro w/sp2 x32 then upgrading to vista x64.

What is using so much hard drive space?
"Cal" <csne...@ktc.com> wrote I just purchased a new computer running Vista Home Premium and wish to install a second hard drive (ATA from my previous computer running XP sp2 - w/all updates) in order to make the programs available on the new "box" without having to reinstall them. This computer has an SATA drive

How to force Vista Boot Menu
I have windows Vista Premium. I did install internal second hard drive (D: )for backup but vista's backup utility does not detect this drive. How can I fix it? Thanks for any help. Mark On my computer, drive D: is the section of the main hard drive that is reserved for system recovery. On my computer, my second

Vista Backup
Restore the image to this drive. 5. Boot into XP. 6. Shut down/unplug the computer and connect the second hard drive which will hold Vista. If it is IDE set it as Slave. You now have both hard drives in the system. Boot with the Vista DVD and install it. Vista will see XP and put an entry in its boot manager.

Vista MBR vs. XP MBR
Does that mean you should forego experimenting with Vista beta and Office 2007 beta? Nope. Consider getting a second hard drive and creating a dual boot on your current computer by installing Vista and Office 2007 on the second hard drive, thereby protecting the stable configuration on your current hard drive.

assigning free hard drive space
I then decided to reformat my C: drive and install Vista on it. To my amazement Vista put the boot loader on my 'second' hard drive - something I didn't want. I installed Vista on a 2nd drive as a clean install (instead of custom). Unfortunately it wrote the boot manager to my 1st drive so now I can only boot

STOP MAKING 32bit VISTA
Have you changed the "slave" setting on the old hard drive to "master"? "you now have to reboot with original boot disk, which you no longer have"? So I put this drive into the 2nd pc as MASTER (see this Mick) and attempt to install Vista. I get past the "loading software" and then the "windows" progess bar

Restore XP after Vista install - help!
Metal Ghost MetalGh...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows mediacenter I actually had them do a clean install of the Vista OS because my It's also possible that Vista automatically copied the original XP HP complete PC backup to the 2nd hard drive and took over the whole drive for the sole

Vista and XP on 2 separate SATA hard drives. Dim.9150.
"David B." wrote: Plug in the second drive, go into BIOS setup and make sure the correct hard drive is listed as the boot drive. When I loaded Vista I changed the primary hd (raid) at the same time. I have a second hd (ide) and unhooked it so windows would install the new drive as C: Everything is up and

Attempt to install second hard drive
YMMV Richard wrote: One of the alleged magic tricks you can do with a laptop and a high end version of Vista is install a "Hybrid" Hard Drive or a second Hard Drive consisting of one of all solid state memory instead of a rotating disk. Has anyone tried this yet? If so does it in fact speed up any process or reduce

XP install clobered Vista
Hello RC White, I installed Vista Ultimate from the DVD, it told me that the upgrade option was disabled and that I should do a clean install. It did offer to partition the corrupted hard drive, which I let it do and it installed correctly. I managed to get some settings back from a One Care back up.

Confusion on upgrade vs. full versions - please help!
Mike The "extra harddrive" approach is one I am using with my laptop. My 100G 7200 hard drive with Vista Business is waiting in the wings until I have some time in which I want to play with Vista. I didn't think about using that with my XPS 410 desktop but now that you mention it, my recent 250G second hard drive