Hey guies. I am sincerely hoping and praying that one of you more techy
people on here can give me a hand with something.
I'm needing to reinstall my OS. I have some disk errors which don't seem to
be fixable. I've posted to a few forums about my following question,
however all of them don't really seem to care anything about accessibility,
and just tell me basically, to get the heck out of the forum as a blind
person has no business using a PC. Frankly, that just made me laugh at them
in shame, but, anyway, that's neither here nor there.
Basically, I have a 360GB SADA hard drive in my machine. I plan to put
Windows vista Home Premium SP2 on it. You may ask, why not Windows 7? I
have my reasons. I love Windows 7, but for reasons beyond my control, I
*must* do Vista. Anyway, I know the process for booting to an XP CD, and
doing a fresh install. I know from ground one, I know about hitting F8 to
accept the liecnese, I know about hitting c to create a partition, etc. etc.
However, I know that in Windows vista the process is ever so slightly
different. I'm not going to have anyone sighted any time soon who could
help me. I'm confident that I can do this, but I just need to know
keystroke by keystroke how to step my way through that initial installation
procedure, until the point I can get narator up to finish it, driver wize,
and software wize, and installing jfw, I'm fine with. that won't be any
problem in the least. I don't need help with any of that, I just need help
knowing how to get through that initial introduction of the setup.
Again, this is a full clean install I want to do, with a full disk format, I
have no other drive perifrials, like external hard disks/USB flash drives
attached, and a 360GB SADA hard disk, I assume SAEDA drivers are
slipstreamed into the Vista OS, unlike they are in XP, so I doubt I'll have
to use NLite, although if I do, it's no problem. I can handle it. I want
to partition my drive into one big partition, so it's not like I'm needing
to set up a multiple partition table, so that'll make it easy, I'll just
have the one Active Primary, and that's it. No secondary. Again, will be
using a Vista Home Premium SP2 DVD. this isn't an upgrade nor recovery
disk. It's the full retale copy that I bought a few years back directly
from Microsoft. Yes, I do have access to the product key, so that is also
no problem.
If anyone can help, and can provide me the keystroke steps, I'd be a happy
camper. LOL!
Thank you ever so much for any help you may can provide. I understand this
is slightly off topic, and that knowing it is such probably doesn't make me
posting this on list become right to do, but I'm kind of between a rock and
a hardplace. You all pretty much are my last hope with this. As I said, I
googled like none other, and also wrote on multiple forums with no one
really being all that terribly helpful, surprisingly enough.
If no one knows, I totally understand, but please don't bash me on or off
list for writing an OT post. This is the only OT yhou're gonna see of me
regarding this. If you'd rather write me off list, which I'd personally
prefer anyway, my address is:
[email protected]
Thank you again.
Best wishes,
Chris.
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