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I have a Sony Vaio laptop running Vista 32-bit. I'd like to get it to a clean installation of Vista for the purposes of selling it (i.e. rid it of any data). I do not have a Windows installation disc (thanks, Sony!), and the computer does not have a recovery...
Started by tnorthcutt on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
There are lots of places on the internetVista....
Vista Home Premium) and download installation media for your particular edition of Windows Vista.
installation DVD matching the product pre-installed on your laptop (e.g.
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Is there a way to reinstall Vista, or reset Vista to it's default settings so that it's like a brand new install without installation disk
Started by Roland on
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This can be found....
You could try using System Restore to restore it to the earliest possible restore point available .
Unless you have a recovery partition from your OEM, or a backup (Windows Backup and Restore, Ghost, Acronis, etc) then you need the DVD .
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When I try to install Vista SP2, it fails and gives me the error:
error_smi_primitive_installer_failed(0x8007371c)
It happens if I try it through Windows Update or with the standalone installation.
Does anybody know how to fix this?
Started by Jim on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
It looks like the process needed to fix this error is to use the Vista Installation DVD to either do....
This article contains answers to exactly your problem supplied by Microsoft Support :
"Vista SP2 and outdated or corrupt drivers.
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It's my first time to use Windows Vista. I've only heard of the annoyances from others and I want to avoid all of those by configuring my installation early.
1 item per answer please.
What are your post-installation setups and configurations for Windows...
Started by Randell on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
First thing, use vlite to slim down the installation to only the partsAvoid all preconceptions regarding Vista, see it as a separate OS from XP, don't try to do how you like it- most of these can be ....
Is very important in Vista).
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I installed Windows 7 side-by-side with my old Windows Vista OEM install. Now, as it's been over a month, I'd like to delete the original Vista installation from within Windows 7, to reclaim some space (as you'll see from the attached screenshot, space...
Started by Redandwhite on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
There are two options:
By far.
In Windows 7, delete the Vista partition with any partition should now be controlled by Windows 7 and Vista is no longer needed.
First, backup everything just in case.
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Hi,
I have a Dell pc and when I ran the Vista installation disk which came with the machine, there is no obvious reference to the disk manager where you can add/delete partitions.
Can someone please explain how to find this? Is this an issue with the ...
Started by gss5 on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
In the Vista installation CD?.
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I am trying to install Vista in a virtual PC on Windows XP Pro. I have VPC have the Vista iso mounted. Somewhere during the beginning of the installation I get an error "no device driver were found. make sure that the installation media contains correct...
Started by Tony_Henrich on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
The installation is having trouble reading from your dvd and that's why you get that cryptic error to install....
Automatically?No device drivers were found error in vista installation can be solved by the boot sequence, make.
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Hi,
I am a bit of a newb with virtual machines, so go easy on me. I am currently dual-booting Windows 7 and Windows Vista. I want to convert the Vista installation into a virtual machine, and then remove that physical partition (the virtual hard disk ...
Started by Wild Thing on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Do the first ....
You need to tell Vista to detect the right HAL at boot and to use the standard (old) IDE driver.
If you want your current Vista image to boot in VPC, you need to change two things.
Then restore inside the virtual machine.
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I'm trying to get a PHP debugger working and currently keep failing at the very first hurdle. I have a clean installation of IIS7 running on Vista with PHP 5.2.11.
The XDebug section of my PHP.ini looks like:
[XDEBUG] zend_extension_ts="E:\Program Files...
Started by Stuart on
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If worse comes to ....
Zend_extension_ts="E:/Program Files/PHP/ext/php_xdebug-2.0.5-5.2.dll"
If that doesn't work, try making [XDEBUG] all lowercase .
This may sound stupid, but in your path to the DLL, try replacing the backslashes with forward slashes.. .
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I've always done clean installations in the past when I've upgraded Windows, it seemed like a smart and sensible thing to do, but an article on Ars Technica made a passing comment that an in-place install to Windows 7 might not be that bad.
Normally I...
Started by Johnny W on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
The other important facet of this is that the Vista build on my machine was a clean anyway, go ahead and do the upgrade....
I performed a standard upgrade here at work (from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Business) and have the compatibility advisor.
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