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| home premium vista (64bit) | please help me hello maybe some can help me please.. i have been using winxp 64bit for the last 2 days . now today i booted into vista home prem 64bit and some of my drives are missing. dvd and 1 of my harddrives.i can see them when booting up the system and i can boot to the missing drive that has winxp 64bit installed on it but vista can't find them. also i tryed going into the disk management but it just sets there and will no longer list my drives. also my web brower will not work .. it just loads the page and then hangs there.if i try clicking on anything the page just starts to fade white and nothing happens. i have a copy of my Favorites on a flash drive and i can open the browser with one of them and it works fine. then if i close the browser and open it in the start menu again it works. i'm using avast antivirus and windows Defender and there both telling me the system is fine. thanks scrooge... |
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| Vista Home Premium 64bit | Re: please help me Can you explain the procedure you went through to vhange from Win XP 64 bit to Vista 64 bit. Was it an upgrade? Or clean install etc etc etc |
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| Ultimate x86 | Re: please help me If you are unable to view the DVD drives try to open registry by clicking on the start and in the start search tyope regedit press enter:: -Delete Upper and lower filter under registry location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1- 08002BE10318} -Uninstall the drivers for DVD Drives from device manager by click on the control panel ( classisc view ) device manager -> DVD ROM. Good luck. |
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| home premium vista (64bit) | Re: please help me i'm sorry for the misunderstanding. i have vista on 1 drive and winxp on the other drive and as it boots i hit f8 and select the drive to boot to . i have been using this setup for about 6 months now and nothing like this happened before. (btw) after i rebooted the system again i got a popup saying that my activation is now deactivated do to a hardware change and then all the drives came back.but now it takes about 5 mins to boot into vista .the system just hangs on the black screen before the desktop. also it says vista is still activated when i check control panel / system.so i don't no what's going on now.i think it's time to reformate the drive and start over. |
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| Vista Home Premium 32-bit & Vista Ultimate 64-bit both Service Pack 2 W7 Pro RTM 7600 32 & 64 | Re: please help me Hi scrooge, Before reinstalling Vista, I suggest that you have a look at the 2 Tutorials by Shawn to see if they can help you. It sounds as though the activation status on your system has become confused and needs resetting. That may be enough to bring your optical drive back on line, but if it doesn't then you haven't really lost anything if you were thinking of doing a reinstall anyway. Just make sure that you have a backup of any important data. Dwarf Activate Vista by Phone Activation - Extend Trial Period |
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