RE: [OT] Vista expert needed !!!

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll just chip in & add that after much weeping & wailing
& gnashing of tee=
th, I have now reverted back to XP on both my laptop and my desktop PC. -
t=
hat despite actually paying =A3104 for an OEM copy of Vista ultimate for
my=
desktop machine.

I tried... I really did, but Vista just kept on pushing me to the brink of
=
exasperation so I've finally given it the finger... =A3104 isn't too high
a=
price to pay for my sanity....

I'm even wiping the preinstalled copy from the new laptop that I bought
for=
SWMBO for xmas, - that despite the fact that I'm going to have to jump thr=
ough a fair few hoops to get XP on there... - No floppy drive on laptop,
& =
XP needs SATA drivers installed during setup from floppy.. - tried USB
flop=
py, but that only works for the first part of setup (i.e. F6 and select
dri=
vers, prior to formatting the disk) - during the subsequent file copy, XP
n=
o longer sees the USB floppy, so can't get the files into the build... I
ev=
en tried pulling the disk & part-building it in another machine... -
that d=
idn't work either due to different HAL being loaded... :-(

I'm now thinking the only option that's going to work is to build a
customi=
zed XP install CD with the SATA drivers slipstreamed in... - but even this
=
is worth the effort to get rid of this stinking pile of rat-puke that is
Vi=
sta...

All IMHO of course!

Paul G.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of=
Stuart Grimshaw
> Sent: 07 January 2008 13:09
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Vista expert needed !!!
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> You could always look at virtualisation, something like VMWare and
> install your XP on that ...
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> That's what I do at work for all the various OS's and I use Parallels
> on my Mac to work the same way at home too ...
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> On Jan 4, 2008 10:36 PM, Keith Doxey <ukha@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Thanks James,
> >
> > I guess the new machine will come with a recovery disk rather
than a Vi=
sta
> > install disk so at least I will be able to put it back to factory
condi=
tion
> > if it all goes pear shaped !!!
> >
> > Keith
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf =
Of
> > James Crossley
> > Sent: 04 January 2008 21:59
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Vista expert needed !!!
> >
> > Hi Keith,
> >
> > First hit on google should help you.
> >
> > http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 4, 2008 9:38 PM, Keith Doxey <ukha@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >   Hi All,
> > >
> > > Following a disaster over Christmas when my faithful old
laptop
> > > trashed the registry and forced a complete rebuild, I have
decided
> > > that the time has come to buy a shiny new laptop.
> > >
> > > Now the crunch..... Everything now comes with Vista of which
I have
> > > very little knowledge but some searching for info on the
programs tha=
t
> > > I use the most reveals that all of my most used programs
have problem=
s
> > > with Vista :(
> > >
> > > From the laptops I hve looked at so far, most seem to have
the hard
> > > drive as one massive partition, what I want to know is....
> > >
> > > 1. it is possible to shrink the size of the Vista partition
from Vist=
a
> > > itself and create another partition without having to trash
the lapto=
p.
> > >
> > > 2. if that is possible, can I then install XP Pro on second
partition
> > > and have a dual boot system.
> > >
> > > I have just managed to make a desktop machine XP Pro/Vista
so that I
> > > can familiarise myself a bit more with Vista but am
wondering how to
> > > get XP as the second OS installed when Vista is already
present.
> > >
> > > 3. From what I have read so far, even though IIS can be
installed on
> > > Vista, Home Premium will only alow 3 simultaneous
connections which
> > > isnt sufficient for what I want to do :(
> > >
> > > Its bad enough that I occasionally hit the connection limit
on XP Pro
> > > at the moment.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > >
> > > Keith
> > >
> > >
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