Why doesnt anything work to plan ?
25 December 2007, 01:05 AM
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Why doesnt anything work to plan ?
Friend of mine bought a MESH pc, nice rig.. decided he wanted Vista and XP, comes with Vista.. so he starts messing around with partitions etc.. bascially its at mine now cause it doesnt work 
I thought piece of ****.. bang XP on then Vista jobs a gooden.. but will XP work .. nope
Trying 64 bit now as its a quad core with 4gb ram
I thought piece of ****.. bang XP on then Vista jobs a gooden.. but will XP work .. nope
Trying 64 bit now as its a quad core with 4gb ram
25 December 2007, 07:00 AM
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What MB...
My Foxconn MB categorically states it will not run 98 or its derivatives at all
might be worth checking the MB doccys to see if there are any specific methods to follow
Mart
My Foxconn MB categorically states it will not run 98 or its derivatives at all
might be worth checking the MB doccys to see if there are any specific methods to follow
Mart
25 December 2007, 03:23 PM
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Did it come with extended hidden sector recovery (put simply: a hidden partition)? If the machine wasnt supplied with recovery media then its likely and he has probably lost the recovery partition chuffing about with the partition table.
25 December 2007, 09:13 PM
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I take it that you wiped the whole machine before putting XP on?
At what point did XP fall over? Normal issue is the HDD controller, but I guess you will have already looked at that.
Have a look on Mesh's site. Can you get that machine with XP, if so then you know it has to work.
At what point did XP fall over? Normal issue is the HDD controller, but I guess you will have already looked at that.
Have a look on Mesh's site. Can you get that machine with XP, if so then you know it has to work.
25 December 2007, 09:31 PM
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I take it that you wiped the whole machine before putting XP on?
At what point did XP fall over? Normal issue is the HDD controller, but I guess you will have already looked at that.
Have a look on Mesh's site. Can you get that machine with XP, if so then you know it has to work.
At what point did XP fall over? Normal issue is the HDD controller, but I guess you will have already looked at that.
Have a look on Mesh's site. Can you get that machine with XP, if so then you know it has to work.
XP works.. now I used the 64 bit version .. must have been a dodgy copyVista wont install now though... but I read there is an issue with 4GB memory.. worth trying it with only 2GB in..
It takes ages to get to each screen and cancels after the serial bit ??
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25 December 2007, 11:23 PM
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Vista does not always like 3rd party partitioning software. You can get weird results when you do...I had a real pain a few months back with that.
I used XP to partition it...
26 December 2007, 12:39 AM
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I had this prob with XP home recently, got a newer version of CD and all was ok 
Stuck on the scanning drive, please wait bit (just before it comes up with partition information)
Seen this issue a few times and its the CD 9/10
Stuck on the scanning drive, please wait bit (just before it comes up with partition information)
Seen this issue a few times and its the CD 9/10
26 December 2007, 12:43 AM
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aye, and a RAID array has been set up and the install dies because it can't find the drivers. Also mass storage drivers not detected will not give any hard drives on the option to install but intergrating DriverPacks.net > DriverPacks > Intro those will fix that
27 December 2007, 12:56 AM
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There's a partition shrink utility built into vista's install media. I had to install XP on my laptop and used that. You can boot the vista CD, shrink its partition, install XP, boot the vista CD again and there is a repair option to re-instate the vista boot manager. For once with an m$ util, it worked perfectly for me. I was able to install XP without destroying the vista partition.
iirc, there was then a 3rd party util that you can use to setup the vista boot manager to setup XP as default OS if required.
iirc, there was then a 3rd party util that you can use to setup the vista boot manager to setup XP as default OS if required.
27 December 2007, 01:30 AM
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There's a partition shrink utility built into vista's install media. I had to install XP on my laptop and used that. You can boot the vista CD, shrink its partition, install XP, boot the vista CD again and there is a repair option to re-instate the vista boot manager. For once with an m$ util, it worked perfectly for me. I was able to install XP without destroying the vista partition.
iirc, there was then a 3rd party util that you can use to setup the vista boot manager to setup XP as default OS if required.
iirc, there was then a 3rd party util that you can use to setup the vista boot manager to setup XP as default OS if required.
Faulty DVD drive.. used an external and its all done now.. Winxp and Vista all installed and working perfectly.. time to give it back quick
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