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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Dichotomy on February 22, 2011, 05:22:23 PM
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as I go through the steps I get to the part right before it shows me my partition screen and I get the bsod. Google didn't turn up anything obvious. Anybody got any ideas.
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If there is nothing on there that you need Dicho, format before installing fella - as your going from vista to xp, suggest that would be a good plan anyway.
Wurzel
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G
It won't let me get that far. Forays into the net suggest an SP2 or higher. Sadly don't have one of those laying around.
Then they start talking that computer gobbledygook and my eyelids get heavy and I fall asleep.
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Dicho, grab a copy of ubuntu or something, install that first, then try and install XP.
Wurzel
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No worries G I don't feel like fighting it. I'm just doing a clean reinstall of *vomit* Vista then I'll upgrade it to 7. It's a newer box that my folks gave Squid I just have to clean all of the garbage they installed on it (why they do not listen is beyond my ability to comprehend) then I'll take it to 7. He might as well get used to MSgarbage now.
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When you go to install 7 you will be able to keep XP if you desire to run a duel boot. You will need a extra partiotn for 7.
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installing xp after vista is difficult,not impossible but difficult.
However if you install xp first then it's relatively easy to install vista for a dual boot system.
IIRC it has something to do with the ram addressing limit of XP that causes the issue with trying to install xp on a vista machine.When I first got this comp it came with vista and I wanted to install xp but found that it was beyond my abilites but not impossible,there's some programs out there to help with this but I just couldnt be bothered.
Once you streamline vista and provided you have sufficient ram vista has been a very stable OS as far as I'm concerned.
Of course YMMV.
:salute
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Quit making sense morf and let me continue to blindly hate it okay? :D
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If ya got the cash Dicho, I"d suggest ignoring vista completely, and going direct to win 7 (32 bit seems less problematical for ah). I'm running win 7 64 bit, and not had many problems, but others have.
Your choice bud, just a suggestion
Wurzel
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Easy way would be to boot with the disk driver utilities for your hard drive, ie Western Digital for WD drives, etc.
Partition, then load xp or xp and 7 for a dual boot.
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If ya got the cash Dicho, I"d suggest ignoring vista completely, and going direct to win 7 (32 bit seems less problematical for ah). I'm running win 7 64 bit, and not had many problems, but others have.
Your choice bud, just a suggestion
Wurzel
BINGO!!!
Since it's not going to be an AH rig after frakking with it for two nights I just wiped it with the Vista discs, installed Eset 30 day trial, networked it, put the codecs in WMP, and told him we'd pick up seven in a week or so. I'll install that on his and the laptop that everybody semi shares in the house and learn the nuances of seven over time. It's working fine for what he uses his comp for and that's what's important.
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I just got the 3-pack "family version" of 7 and installed it over Vista on 2 systems. For 130 clams, well worth it.
As to going back to XP, normally helps if you pull all but 1 stick of RAM out until install is complete.
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As to going back to XP, normally helps if you pull all but 1 stick of RAM out until install is complete.
Huh? never heard that one before. Whats the reasoning behind this?
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Morfiend touched on it too, but I know I couldn't get my SP1 to install till I removed my extra RAM as was suggested by a forum site somewhere.
I never really figured out if it was the RAM, the MB, XP SP1, or just what the problem was, but after many failed attempts to install, pulled the RAM and it installed perfectly. Then did the updates, then installed the additional RAM.
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Morfiend touched on it too, but I know I couldn't get my SP1 to install till I removed my extra RAM as was suggested by a forum site somewhere.
I never really figured out if it was the RAM, the MB, XP SP1, or just what the problem was, but after many failed attempts to install, pulled the RAM and it installed perfectly. Then did the updates, then installed the additional RAM.
OK..might have something to do with taking hardware to bare minimums although for XP I don't think you would ever want to go below 512MB.
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Here you go.. win7 three pack.. $99 (they are upgrades but can be used as a full install.. just remember it's only legal if you actually own a legal copy of XP/VISTA regardless as to how you install it).
http://www.buy.com/prod/windows-7-family-pack-premium-upgrade/q/loc/105/211406681.html (http://www.buy.com/prod/windows-7-family-pack-premium-upgrade/q/loc/105/211406681.html)
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In bios set dvd as primary boot, it will then give you the option to format C: under advanced install or something like that.
I know it doesn't do a proper format, but at least it doesn't keep all the old junk saved in a file.
I used the 64 bit on both my systems and have had no problems with AH or any other programs.
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Dragon the ram bit was interesting to say the least :aok
And yes I need to go ahead and start slowly getting into 7 since I do low grade tech support at the office and we will eventually migrate there.
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Huh? never heard that one before. Whats the reasoning behind this?
I think this is an urban legend which spawned from the bug in the original Vista installs, pre SP Vista installation crashed on some systems when using 4Gb ram. It had something to do with hardware compatibility with Vista. XP install does not have such a problem afaik.
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I think this is an urban legend which spawned from the bug in the original Vista installs, pre SP Vista installation crashed on some systems when using 4Gb ram. It had something to do with hardware compatibility with Vista. XP install does not have such a problem afaik.
Ok. I have been working with XP for years and still have a few workstations at work that use it because of application compatibility issues with VISTA. I had never come across this in any of the system builds I had completed.