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post #21 of 43
7/2/06 at 12:24pm
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Originally Posted by polishman
is vista any good? or does anybody when the real thing will come out?

I ran the Beta 2 on my laptop (well, technically, it's still there) and it wasn't too bad at all. A little slow here and there and programs would still exhibit instability. It's nice to play around with but nothing I'd use full time.

I heard the new build out in the RC tree is actually VERY good. I'm talking better performance than WinXP on a decently specc'd machine (yeah, don't ask me how that's possible, but several people have commented on this) and is many times more stable than the Beta 2 release. I'm going to see if I can give the new build a whirl.
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post #22 of 43
7/2/06 at 12:38pm
what is this new build of the beta and if possible, where can i find it?
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post #23 of 43
7/2/06 at 12:48pm
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Originally Posted by polishman
what is this new build of the beta and if possible, where can i find it?



Windows Vista Beta 2: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...y/preview.mspx
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post #24 of 43
7/2/06 at 2:36pm
Actually, I'm talking about a different build. You can find out more here:

http://neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=33744
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post #25 of 43
7/2/06 at 3:38pm
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Originally Posted by abf
if you delete anything yeah, if you just resize your current ones to create a free space, there is always a risk, but i've done it on several occasions where i haven't lost anything.

also: ALWAYS BACK UP!
and defrag before you resize that partition!
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post #26 of 43
7/2/06 at 4:23pm
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Originally Posted by drlouis
and defrag before you resize that partition!



Do you know of any free partition software that I dont need a disk for?
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post #27 of 43
7/2/06 at 4:25pm
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Originally Posted by suddste223
Do you know of any free partition software that I dont need a disk for?


you mean like to download and use from the hard drive you're repartitioning?

if so, then no. I haven't done this but one time, with partition magic, and frankly it didn't work very well, ended up borking my partition table, and I had to reformat and reinstall windows. but if I remember correctly it ran off the CD.
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post #28 of 43
7/2/06 at 4:27pm
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Originally Posted by drlouis


you mean like to download and use from the hard drive you're repartitioning?

if so, then no. I haven't done this but one time, with partition magic, and frankly it didn't work very well, ended up borking my partition table, and I had to reformat and reinstall windows. but if I remember correctly it ran off the CD.


ah, sh!t, then im screwed, I dont have any CD's.
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post #29 of 43
7/2/06 at 4:34pm
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Originally Posted by suddste223
ah, sh!t, then im screwed, I dont have any CD's.
maybe not. Like I said I dont know for sure, I only did it once, and that was a couple of years ago. I could be wrong.

Also you could make a disk image, reformat, then use the windows CD to repartition you HDD and reinstall from the image. Resizing would be easier if it will run off the partition you're resizing, I just dont think it will.

Let someone confirm before you give up hope.
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post #30 of 43
7/2/06 at 4:37pm
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Originally Posted by drlouis
maybe not. Like I said I dont know for sure, I only did it once, and that was a couple of years ago. I could be wrong.

Also you could make a disk image, reformat, then use the windows CD to repartition you HDD and reinstall from the image. Resizing would be easier if it will run off the partition you're resizing, I just dont think it will.

Let someone confirm before you give up hope.



but if I make a disc image, I need to burn it to CD or DVD.
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post #31 of 43
7/2/06 at 4:42pm
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Originally Posted by suddste223
but if I make a disc image, I need to burn it to CD or DVD.
no, not necesarily. You could store it on an external drive. or move it over a network to another box's hdd. or use an online storage solution like iBackup or Godaddys 'Online File Folder'. If none of those are available for you then yeah you'd be left with very few options.
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post #32 of 43
7/2/06 at 4:46pm
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Originally Posted by drlouis
no, not necesarily. You could store it on an external drive. or move it over a network to another box's hdd.

If neither of those are available then yeah you'd be left with very few options.


ah, shit! This Windows Vista is giving A LOT of problems!

I have a network computer but, I have not enought space on it, and I dont have an external drive (well one that has enough space!) and first I didnt have any DVD's to actually get vista installation up! blah!
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post #33 of 43
7/2/06 at 4:48pm
that really sucks
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post #34 of 43
7/2/06 at 4:49pm
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Originally Posted by polishman
that really sucks



I know!
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post #35 of 43
7/2/06 at 4:52pm
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Originally Posted by drlouis
no, not necesarily. You could store it on an external drive. or move it over a network to another box's hdd. or use an online storage solution like iBackup or Godaddys 'Online File Folder'.

If none of those are available for you then yeah you'd be left with very few options.



and I forgot that, I backed up all my files, and the F@@king restore, doesnt restore!
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post #36 of 43
7/3/06 at 8:28pm
This is a total re-edit of a long thing I wrote and decided was not what you needed.

Basically, troubles with Vista result from Vista's very different boot system, which does not use NTLDR or boot.ini, and its different use of device drivers. When a Vista install goes wrong, it does indeed wipe out Sys Restore's effectiveness, plus it seems to eat up most of your original XP system.

Actually almost everything is still there. Your files, and even your boot files, are still there. The problem is in accessing them again, which won't take you too long, and secondly in getting your XP working properly again—which should happen, but might not.

The most knowledgable stuff I've seen resulted from Googling the two incompatibles [+Vista +NTLDR] or [+Vista +boot.ini], which immediately leads you to discussions about the new boot system, and maybe to some better help than I can offer.

I think Vista was originally leaked out as an alpha that had been intended for ongoing M$ work. Then M$ scrambled to make it a bit more palatable for a public it was not ready for—and who were not ready for it.

You yourself did nothing wrong, and you have a LOT of company.
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post #37 of 43
7/4/06 at 2:29am
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post #38 of 43
7/4/06 at 4:06pm
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yeah, I got XP working again, it is just that restore never worked. (something to do with protection). blah, :


Thanks for all your replys!
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post #39 of 43
7/4/06 at 7:12pm
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Originally Posted by suddste223
yeah, I got XP working again, it is just that restore never worked. (something to do with protection). blah, :


Thanks for all your replys!
no problem. unfortunately installing beta software carries some risk of these kinds of problems.
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post #40 of 43
7/5/06 at 5:31pm
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Originally Posted by drlouis
no problem. unfortunately installing beta software carries some risk of these kinds of problems.


yeah, I did since I couldnt find any free (and you dont need to use a CD) partition Software, so I chose the option to Upgrade and what I got was the picture in post number 1 so I decided to go back to Windows XP (and lost all my files doing that) and when I restored all my files and settings (in XP), natrually, it didnt work.


btw: I did it on my desktop, not my laptop
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