Posts by Cloaked

If you can get Vista Home Premium to install, I have my doubts since Ultimate won't install, you will be able to upgrade to Ultimate. The reason I have my doubts about HP installing is because Ultimate and HP are the same except for a...

Here is what I like about it. Keep in mind this is only from using for about 2 hours. The keyboard is much better than most. Larger keys for one. It has a number pad which for me is great. I have to use a USB addon with my laptop as...

My wife just bought one at Newegg. It was delivered yesterday. Cost her $1400 for 2 gig memory, 200gig hd, c2d t5500. I like it. The only thing I don't like about it is all the junk that hp installed on it. If it was mine I would format...

Delete windows.old. Have you tried shrinking the partition you don't want in Vista?

The idea behind creating the recovery cd is to copy the files from the partition to multiple cd's. That way if the hd dies you'll still be able to recover. I changed the hd in my 5670 and used recovery cd's to restore without a problem.

Could be a number of things. AV, anti-spyware or defrag utily doing a scan. Look in precesses tab to see what processes are running. That should tell what is causing the disk activity. If you run Vista then it is indexing your files and...

The first partition is hidden and can't be formatted or removed unless you boot to Linux with live cd and use qpart to remove it. You can safely remove D if you wish. It doesn't have anything on it and I don't know why Acer sends laptops...

I installed the mouse driver and camera drivers/software to a clean install of Vista Business on my 5670. The other drivers I didn't need as Vista installed them. Make sure you upgrade the bios also. I got the drivers from the ftp link...

If the hardware is similar it should work. You could remove the ide/sata drivers before you create the image. The main problem with moving OS from one set of hardware to the other is the incompatibility with the ide/sata drivers. If you...

Yes you have it right. Some usb sticks and sd cards are not compatible with ReadyBoost. What is does is loads the programs you use most into a ram drive created on the removeable media. It will speeds thing up. It won't be the same as...