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| Vista Ultimate 64bit SP1 | THANK YOU BRINK! I have been trying for the past two days to get my computer back up and running after my boot hard drive quit working suddenly and for no apart reason. My main hard drive (with all my important saved information) was unharmed by the inexplicable frying of my old IDE drive. I still am going to get the hard drive but THANK YOU for saving me so much time! I can't do much (still in high school lol) but this being beyond helpful I will try donate to that new computer everyone is trying to get you. THANKS AGAIN! |
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Clean Install From Upgrade Vista You're welcome BigEasy18. I'm happy ro hear that it was able to save you time and was helpful. Shawn |
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| Vista Business x64 | Re: Clean Install From Upgrade Vista Thanks so much for these tutorials... I had an XP Pro x64 that I had gotten Express Upgrade on, then had my motherboard warrantied and replaced with another model by ASUS. Long story short, when I found this post, I already had a 1 week old unactivated Vista installation, because I had run the installation without entering my product key. Since this was on a dual boot system with a modified Vista BCD for dual boot and everything tuned already, I did not want to have to go through the headache of installing my XP again. Lucky for me, I had never activated Vista on the old motherboard. I really like how you've got these tutorials linked to each other, I found myself jumping around between them a bit. |
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Clean Install From Upgrade Vista You're welcome Bad_the_Ba. I'm glad to hear that you find them helpful. Shawn |
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| Windows Vista Ultimate | Re: Clean Install From Upgrade Vista Brink, It is great. Thanks so much. I appreciate what you are doing for this Forum. You are one of the best in Great Texas. Best regards |
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Clean Install From Upgrade Vista You're welcome Stasioau. Thank you, Shawn |
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| vista ultimate 32bit | Re: Clean Install From Upgrade Vista i never new you can do that with an upgrade copy of windows, i did what the instructions said and succesfully reformatted and reinstalled windows vista, thanks so much |
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Clean Install From Upgrade Vista You're welcome Jordan. Shawn |
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| Vista Ultimate 32-bit | Re: Clean Install From Upgrade Vista The system files of the Dell installed OS (Vista Home Premium), which I upgraded to Ultimate via a retail copy, became corrupted resulting in CHKDSK at almost every reboot. This fixed numerous errors 'initially' but I was ultimately left with limited Vista functionality (i.e. could not run Aero; many Windows services would not start or run and I could not do a system restore). This was very frustrating issue to troubleshoot/resolve...until this tutorial. It wasn't a flawless process, and I had to wipe my drive BUT I now have a "clean" PC with ZERO installed programs, including none from Dell. Now I have FULL Vista Ultimate functionality. Thanks. |
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