Windows Vista Beta 1

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Shekers

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Is it not possible to install Windows on a secondary drive? I have tried that at least 5 times with Vista and Longhorn server. If *nix can do it, why can't windows? Everytime I try to install on a secondary drive, it freezes at bootmanager...

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Is it not possible to install Windows on a secondary drive? I have tried that at least 5 times with Vista and Longhorn server. If *nix can do it, why can't windows? Everytime I try to install on a secondary drive, it freezes at bootmanager...

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I installed my copy to a second Drive and had no problems whatsoever. I preformatted the drive to NTFS and used a mounted image in alcohol 120% to launch the install from within XP. 30 minutes later i had Vista loaded and ready.

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I installed my copy to a second Drive and had no problems whatsoever. I preformatted the drive to NTFS and used a mounted image in alcohol 120% to launch the install from within XP. 30 minutes later i had Vista loaded and ready.

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Damn...hm....wth can be wrong then? I installed on a partition on my primary and it runs fine....I used Daemon Tool AND alcohol 120%...time to do chkdsk...

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Shekers

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It's beta 1 for God sake. Why would you even bother with Vista beta 1...

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Because, some people are actually Beta Tester...

Ditto, no I havent, 'cuz my secondary drive is my storage drive as well...I will be getting 2x160 SATA in a couple days....might try it on that...I dont have a DVD burner so I have to use a virtual DVD drive.

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Because, some people are actually Beta Tester...

Ditto, no I havent, 'cuz my secondary drive is my storage drive as well...I will be getting 2x160 SATA in a couple days....might try it on that...I dont have a DVD burner so I have to use a virtual DVD drive.

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I don't know how big that secondary drive is but one possibility might be to partition it giving Vista say a 10 Gig partition and installing to that with a clean install.. the fact that there is data present and that the drive is not cleanly formatted may be the problem

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Shekers

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I don't know how big that secondary drive is but one possibility might be to partition it giving Vista say a 10 Gig partition and installing to that with a clean install.. the fact that there is data present and that the drive is not cleanly formatted may be the problem

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k, i'll try that. thnx for advice.

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karma_police

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Meh... B-E-T-A

I'm trying to figure out what is going on now...

It was AWSOME like OS...

BEFORE THE FIRST RE-BOOT

Now it's...

Slow, unresponsive, no more DWM, bugy...

So i'm crying of disapointment :(

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I had almost the same problem until I disabled a lot of services and I found that the one that was slowing everything is Windows Audio. I uninstalled MS drivers and installed the ones from Dell and now everything is working.

BTW I can play MP3 with WMP, I havent installed foobar yet.

Also I cant install Intel Chipset Utility so no Speedstep, my CPU is always at full speed and I dont like it :no:

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why do you say that.

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because look up a bit

BUGS:

1- Computer crash when closing...

I hear it closing (HDD) but the screen stay on it.

2- MSN (7.0.162 PATCHED) is crashing when I close it.

3- Winamp had make 2 errors when installing: Windows Codec + CD-Writing

4- Now after re-install it had crashed on the Graphic driver.

It's again in the Device manager BUT not in the Display Settings

5- My Router is always reseting now

Deconected the cable to my PC with LH and it's re-ok...

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6- Music playback is impossible... it lag to mush

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because look up a bit

BUGS:

1- Computer crash when closing...

I hear it closing (HDD) but the screen stay on it.

2- MSN (7.0.162 PATCHED) is crashing when I close it.

3- Winamp had make 2 errors when installing: Windows Codec + CD-Writing

4- Now after re-install it had crashed on the Graphic driver.

It's again in the Device manager BUT not in the Display Settings

5- My Router is always reseting now

Deconected the cable to my PC with LH and it's re-ok...

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6- Music playback is impossible... it lag to mush

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sounds like a vid driver problem to me. try this. open display settings> advanced and setting hardware acceleration to minimum

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qkslvr221

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Wow guys, Beta 1 is EXCELLENT! :D

Installed on 2nd hard drive, am dual booting with XP ( although it won't let me edit my boot.ini and I want to change my default selection to XP ) and everything works perfectly!

With my ATI 9800XT DWM worked right out of the box, as did all other drivers with the exception of the realtek AC97 audio(had to manually install).

Performance is top notch, features are very nice, and the overall usability/stability is great!

Only gripes I have preventing me from using this as a primary OS, I was able to install F-PROT antivirus so I do have a scanner (the resident module WILL NOT work), but sadly no 3rd party firewalls work. Anyone tested onecare on Vista yet?

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