I don't know if I would blame any of that on Vista. It sounds like there
were several operator errors.
I would only load Vista if you have a separate computer. I have loaded
the Betas and RC1, they are not quite ready for prime time. RC1 is
close, though.
Fly......
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Or maybe it should be called "Doing the Vista jig"!
>
> Since the Vista DVDs were first offered I have been experimenting with the
> developing versions of Vista and have made several installations, both as
> upgrades and as dual boot and everything has always been great. Except
> last night!
>
> While trying to dual boot my new Gateway with Vista, I was SURE that I
> had directed the installation to install on a second partition created
> for
> that
> purpose, I either goofed or something went wrong and Vista installed
> itself
> on my "C" drive, taking my Gateway OEM Media Center with it. No great
> problem, right? I've got my OEM recovery set. Wrong!
>
> I tried doing an OEM recovery to get my OEM XP Media Center back and
> found out how tenacious Vista is. The recovery failed with an error
> message
> "Boot.ini error". The next step was try to reformat "C", also a no go.
> Well
> there's still F-Disk isn't there? Wrong again. Vista is on a non-DOS
> partition and F-Disk only works on DOS partitions. Then I found a program
> in
> "PC Beginner" that said I could delete everything off a drive to clear it
> for an
> OS reinstall. Worked great, but it deleted all four of my partitions
> including
> the OEM recovery partition.
>
> Ha, Ha, LOL. I had copied my OEM partition to a DVD. And, the PC
> comes with a Bootable DVD recovery disk, but now, the DVD does not
> recover my Laptop as it did before. It only recovers XP Media center
> without OEM programs or drivers. So once Windows is reinstalled I
> still needed to run my "OEM partition backup" and reinstall all the OEM
> drivers and programs one at a time. Then I had to use Partition Magic
> and re-create my partitions.
>
> What's the moral here? Make sure you have your stuff saved to a safe
> location, and watch what the h..l your doing. And if your going to do
> foolish things, do them early in the evening. Bye
>
>
> Emile.
>
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