Ok, so recently I built a new computer. On my old computer i have vista installed (which is what im using now). I thought i cud just transfer the hdd (its a sata hdd) to my new comp, but it flashes a BSOD 4 a sec, then restarts. I tried safemode and it gets stuck at crcdisk.sys. I tried startup repair, system restore, memory check, everything, even updated my bios yet still wont boot on my new comp.

My question is, with vista can you not just transfer a hdd from one computer to another? I want to use my new computer but cannot as vista wont boot on it. Can I install Vista on another hdd on that computer without windows yelling at me? (I only want to use one computer, but how can I do this?)

New comp specs:
cpu: q6600
mobo: Gigabyte GA-p35-ds3r/s3r
ram: OCZ gold ddr2 800
hdd: seagate 250GB SATA

or can I transfer files from current hdd to another, then reinstall vista completely (maybe even try 64bit edition)? I already activated vista, will that matter now?

My mom’s mobo got fried cause she installed her ram wrong, this caused an arc and fried it. I was curious, her comp had a P4 2.66 in it and mine has a very modest 1.8 (it’s 5 years old). Doing some research on my motherboard I found that it’s capable of up to 2.8. If frying the motherboard somehow damaged the cpu and I put it in my machine, would it potentially do any damage? I was kinda happy about almost a 1Ghz upgrade for free but I wouldn’t do it if it would fry my computer. I could always just put my 1.8 back in if the other didn’t work, but I don’t wanna wreck my computer. Any advice?

Oh, here are my comp specs, not sure if you need them:
Gateway 500SE
1 G Kingston ram
1.8 GHz P4
Motherboard uses intel 845GL chipset (couldn’t nail down the exact mobo cause gateway does some alterations)

Hi everybody,
i’m in the process of buying a new laptop, and i can choose between these 2 OS, which one would the experts reccomend?
Thank you in advance for your help

I’d like to add a shortcut link to my videos folder to the right side pane of the start menu, where the other things like Documents, Music, Pictures and Games are, but I can’t figure out how to get it in there. Infact, I’d probably like to jsut remove the Games link (which I figured out how to do), but can’t seem to get Videos on there.

Can anyone please tell me how to do this? I’m very new to Vista, and haven’t been able to figure out how to do it.

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I installed a new graphics card, but I was told that I had to delete the old drivers. I couldn’t find them, so I installed the new drivers. Now the monitor flickers whenever I try to do the following: Change Screen resolution, change the desktop backround,click on "properties" for my computer and whenever I try to play a game. I’m getting real tired and frustrated now. The drivers won’t show up in the Add/Remove option in the control panel. I really don’t want to take it to a local computer store, so that I have to pay $60 an hour for them to take a 3 hour lunch break, and then 15 minutes on fixing the problem. Any help/advice?

this is what happens when I try to start one of the simplest games on my computer… Solitare.

I have a Nvidia 8500 gt… 8500! Why is this happening!?!

Edit

Okay, so I was thinking, maybe the CD the drivers came from was kind of messed up. So I went directly to the BFG graphics card site and got the drivers there. I followed all the steps, untill this happened…

there is something wrong here. What is it?

Hello,

I have a DV6365us laptop with a SATA hard drive as disk 0 (At least, thats what it tells me. It’s unlike any SATA I’ve ever seen). Anyway, it was a pain to get XP on there to dual boot, what with XP not having SATA driver support in the install process… but I finally now have a dual bootable computer (Vista and XP). When I got the computer, it had a 6.xx GB partition used for system restore. I backed it up via DVD’s as suggested by HP, and deleted the partition.
I then shrunk the Vista partition to the allowable dimension (apparently, about 40% free space is too much to shrink anymore?) using Vista’s build in partition manager. I also have a maximum on the shrinkage allowed in the XP partition (Something about pagefiles/snapshots it says?). Back to the main question, as those are side questions: I freed up about 14.66 GB by doing this shrinkage, but oddly enough the 2 unallocated drive spaces (From the deletion of the HP_RECOVERY and one from the shrinkages) read as seperate spaces. This means I am unable to combine them, or basically even use that 6.xx GB space from the recover to extend another volume into.

My goal here is this:
1. Vista Volume, about 75 GB
2. XP Volume, about 15 GB
3. My Documents Volume, about 59 GB (The goal is to have both OS’s to open these without problem)

But, as you can see from the attached screenshot, I am unable to do any of them. DISKPART does not help either, as it cannot work with the volume. I have installed the most current drivers for the SATA, etc and still no-go. Any ideas?

Hello all, i’m trying to record something with my microphone, and everything works. But it’s a little low on recording volume. so i went into sound in the control panel and went to advanced settings and it came up with this slide bar and mine was only at 13…don’t nkow what that means really. So i moved it up thinking it would recorded noise at more volume. But it dodn’t work. IS there a different way to do that? Thanks

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I can use a little help here if anyone has a minute. My 6400 Inspiron has an Optiarc AD 5540A DVD drive.
I just did a clean install on my HD switching from Vista Home to XP pro SP2. I did this because 2 of my programs I must use at work will not be compatable with Vista for some time. All went well, the only problem I have is the DVD does not work and comes up with a message stating that there is no decoder available. The CD option does operate. Does this mean I have to Flash my DVD drive or just get the software? Evidently it is NOT in SP2. For that matter is this “flash” the drive software and is it also the decoder? Dell is at a loss as they had a hard time just believing I had the 5540A drive let alone know what the machine needs.
I’m no computer expert for sure so I dont know if there is a difference between the flash, the software and the decoder.
Any help appreciated.

I successfully dual booted my laptop with Vista and XP using an article I read (I’ll edit this with the link once I find it)… but here’s the problem. When the computer starts, it says "Which OS? Vista or XP"… if i select vista it boots it but when i select XP it brings me to a submenu: "Select which XP version" and it has 2 entries of XP (one from previous install, drive doesnt exist, and one thats current.) … how do I delete this duplicate entry?

EDIT: Found