Fucking Windows Vista Nightmare

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  • yahoo-xxx-girls.com
    Confirmed User
    • Jul 2006
    • 3143
    #51
    Hi Lenny2

    Originally posted by Lenny2
    Hey if it's an HP we found a shitload of drivers online today that should work. Hit me on ICQ if you want the links.

    I managed to get Vista up and running again though.
    Apparently when XP sets up a partition on the HD it leaves 8MB of unused space, and Vista did not like this.
    I deleted the NTFS partition altogether and rebooted, and the system recovery part of the hard drive took over on restart and reinstalled everything.

    So I still lost all my installed programs and almost a week's worth of video encoding just because I wanted to uninstall norton, but at least I'm up and running again.
    Good to hear you got your system up again.

    It would be a good idea as to backup your videos on a different harddrive and or DVD...

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      • qxm
        Confirmed User
        • Jul 2006
        • 5970
        #52
        Originally posted by Steve Awesome
        What this proves is that if you buy hardware certified for Vista then it does NOT mean that XP will also work. That's the logic gap. You bought a new machine and then wanted to use an older operating system it wasn't designed for -- and then you bitch about it. Get a fucking clue. I'd like to get my old 5.25 inch floppy drives to work on XP, but can I do that? Fuck no. BIOS' haven't supported that drive type in years.

        Assumptions suck.
        Very Well Put...... same thing happened to me with vista.. I "assumed" the hardware would be "backward compatible" ... some things are .. and some don't...

        I guess as long as I can submit my galleys I'll be fine......

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          • Snake Doctor
            I'm Lenny2 Bitch
            • Mar 2001
            • 13449
            #53
            Originally posted by Steve Awesome
            What this proves is that if you buy hardware certified for Vista then it does NOT mean that XP will also work. That's the logic gap. You bought a new machine and then wanted to use an older operating system it wasn't designed for -- and then you bitch about it. Get a fucking clue. I'd like to get my old 5.25 inch floppy drives to work on XP, but can I do that? Fuck no. BIOS' haven't supported that drive type in years.

            Assumptions suck.
            Dude, the missing driver was for the network adapter. Has there been some massive breakthrough in home networking technology in the past 12 months that I'm unaware of?

            Also, I wasn't bitching because XP didn't work, I was bitching because the built in vista recovery wouldn't work, and I was without an operating system period.

            Some of us have lives and don't spend all of our time in our mother's basement taking apart our computers. Get over yourself.
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              • AdultDatingTraffic
                Registered User
                • Aug 2007
                • 14
                #54
                it more like " asta la VISTA baby " grrrrr " i'll be back ...... "

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                  • jeffrey
                    Confirmed User
                    • Jul 2004
                    • 1864
                    #55
                    Originally posted by cyberxxx
                    As far as I heard, m$ is going to release SP3 for XP with DX10 support. Course it's just a rumor yet. Let's see it's true.
                    Microsoft made a public statement that they will NOT be releasing DX10 for XP.


                    Originally posted by xmas13
                    Vista is fucked, should have never been released to the public, it's costing people A LOT OF MONEY, much more than what Microshit earns in revenue from its Vista product.

                    When Microshit makes a billion, the American public loses another ten.

                    This company sucks so bad.
                    I would like you to explain how its costing people money please.
                    Also from your post, you would be a hypocrite to be using any MS software.
                    Coming Soon!

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                      • split_joel
                        Confirmed User
                        • Jan 2005
                        • 2270
                        #56
                        To blame Microsoft Vista for your HP recovery partition not working is very funny or so I think. Anyways even if it was a fault on microsofts part which I highly doubt, you are a moron not to expect something like this to happen.

                        Microsoft releases every operating system before its ready for one main reason... They make money off the support given to people like you.

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                          • Steve Awesome
                            Confirmed User
                            • Jan 2007
                            • 1575
                            #57
                            Originally posted by Lenny2
                            Dude, the missing driver was for the network adapter. Has there been some massive breakthrough in home networking technology in the past 12 months that I'm unaware of?
                            With that line of thinking I could argue that 8-track tapes should work in CD players because speaker technology hasn't changed in the past 12 months.

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