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CHKDSK "Replacing invalid security id..."
Jane C janecol...@invalid.iinet.net.au microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Hello jazz, I'm afraid the only way to get back to Home Basic is a clean install. You can't "downgrade" from Home Premium to Home Basic. Backup all of your data to either an external USB hard drive, or copy to CD or DVD,

neophite
this on a clean install. On one computer the scanner works in a certain port. On the other computer - nothing. I shut down both computers and switched M/B's. I have an external Maxtor that will not work with Vista. I'll be damned if I am going back to XP because of it. I just use my 500 gig Seagate hard drive

Upgrading to Vista?
Mick M...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance If i was you, I would buy an external USB hard drive for a backup. One strange thring about Vista is that when you install it, it takes a while to open installation files, compressed?. I have an 80gig hard drive,

How to force Vista Boot Menu
EVERYTHING i install has to be put in manually. when i added a printer, and a camera, and an external hard drive, and my xbox 360 using media center, Vista never found the drivers. i had to manually set it to find the drivers in c/windows/system 32. even though i had discs for some of them. once it looks in

Unable to connect to external USB drive
You will need it to install Nero/NeroExpress. Launch Nero StartSmart and open the Nero ProductCenter by clicking on the "Nero" logo in the upper left corner. 320GB External USB Hard Drive 4. 200GB External USB Hard Drive basically whether these hard drives are connected via the LAN or via USB, Vista doesnt

installing windows xp on a usb hard drive to boot sony vaio from
Ken kenm...@kencurtis.net microsoft public windows vista games Are there any other drive letters besides the C:, the A: (floppy) and the D: (CD/DVD)? If you don't have another partition you can buy an external USB hard drive for under $100 to install more software than will fit on the C: drive.

Microsoft throws in the towel on Vista
jcoane jco...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup I want to install Vista on a usb external hard drive with C: remaining for XP. When I went to do a clean install on E:, the Vista installer tells me that it can not install Vista on a external usb or IEEE drive.

Vista & External Storage Devices & NAS Boxes Problems & Issues
Pull the drive and slave it in a computer running a working install of XP/Vista. Depending on the target drive's characteristics, you may need a drive adapter; If you are using the usb thumb drive or the external hard drive, right-click on its icon (on the Desktop) to get its properties and uncheck the box that

install windows xp through external USB CDrom drive
I'm able to install it, but when I try to burn a DVD, I get a flickering blue screen of death and I have to reboot. I've sent my infotool.txt file to I've got an HP Pavilion notebook with 2GB of RAM and 45GB for Vista. I've also got an external USB hard drive that's 160GB. The DVD burner is a Matshita drive.

Converting or formatting NTFS to FAT32
Attach the external hard drive and boot with the TI bootable CD. Restore the image to this drive. 5. Boot into XP. 6. Shut down/unplug the computer and connect the second hard drive which will hold Vista. If it is IDE set it as Slave. You now have both hard drives in the system. Boot with the Vista DVD and install

External USB Hard Drive Device not recongnized
940199 Error message when you try to install a new hardware device on a Windows Vista-based computer: "Windows encountered a problem installing the driver software for Thread-Topic: Cannot detect external USB hard drive thread-index: Acfj+eRVNSopzCaKTOmhR6OdWQ8/bQ== X-WBNR-Posting-Host: 200.41.232.50 From: =?

Complete backup strange problem
Jupiter Jones, the problem with using the Vista transfer program for most of us is that usually you want to install Vista on the same disk/partition XP is on. How can you then use "Vista Easy I made a full system backup in XP Media Centre 2005 using ntbackup and placed the bkf on a external USB hard drive.

installing windows xp on a usb hard drive to boot sony vaio from
teho t...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices hello everyone! i have a problem: my hid compatible usb devices such as external usb hard drive, ipod, card reader -- all works perfect, but when i try to install hid compatible device, such as mouses and so on -- they just

How to repair USB ports on Vista
If you have the external USB2 hard drive hooked up to your box, you'll be able to find it and deal with reformatting partitions to FAT32. This option will give you a full Linux Ubuntu that you can then install on your hard drive permanently if you want to dual boot Vista and Ubuntu. It'll be a fairly large ISO,

Creating a full back up using Acronis true image
Since you can get into Safe Mode, you can attach a USB thumb drive with enough capacity to transfer the data or use an external USB hard drive. If Windows will not stay stable enough in Safe Mode to do this, pull the drive and slave it in a computer running a working install of XP/Vista.

Vista & HP Wireless Printing Issues
Boogus.com> wrote: DJW wrote: John, The original post was because I could not boot using my hard drive C and the internal DVD was faulty (been that way for some time) so I wanted to know how to use the windows 98 install CD with an USB external CD_RW drive. Never could get it done that way.

Help! SATA drive 1/10th the speed of IDE
BobF B...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general I should probably supply a bit more information. I once successfuly did a full backup on 10/26/2007. I placed it on an external USB hard drive. Then I made a minor change to my configuration and added an 80 gig PATA hard drive to my system.

Testing Linux . . .
I made a full system backup in XP Media Centre 2005 using ntbackup and placed the bkf on a external USB hard drive. (NTFS, compressed) Upgraded to Vista Ultimate and found that I wanted some of my media files out of my backup. However Vista does not know what application to use for the bkf file.

Can I restore Windows 98 from an USB external CR-rom drive?
R. McCarty PcEngWork-NoSp...@mindspring.com microsoft public windowsxp general Not sure about Firewire's Bootable capability, but to 2000/XP/Vista any USB I need to install Win 2000 on an external Maxtor usb/firewire hard drive so that I can boot from either WinXP on the internal HD or from this external HD

New Nero 7.7.5.1 available
When I went to do a clean install on E:, the Vista installer tells me that it can not install Vista on a external usb or IEEE drive. Is this a fixable problem? Why would Vista care about the external drive being usb or IEEE. Please help so I don't have to partition my small internal hard drive.