New Vista Install from Hard Drive?. I have an older DVD ROM NEC dv-5800a. When I'm installing Vista, I get a message thatit needs drivers for the DVD player, even though I've already started on the install process. I've downloaded the drivers, but they...

Vista installation hard drive help. Hey all. I'm installing Vista home premium on a PC that I've just built. However, Vista doesn't recognise any hard drive during the installation process. I know that it is attactched properly, since the mobo bios registers...

Can't Allocate Space on Hard Drive After Upgrade to Vista. I did a clean install when upgrading to vista and cannot understand why so much space is being taken up on my hard drive. I have two computers and it happened to both. I really don't want to install...

not let me format/partition/install on the hard drive - I got an error saying I can't access the drive. So I redownloaded the drivers and tried again. This time it allowed me to install the driver, but I still couldn't format/partition/install on the hard drive....

OS at the same time. ;) GW Don't get the upgrade version if you're going to wipe out your hard drive first. Get an OEM copy instead. Allows you to do a clean install without the need for an existing Vista install on the hard drive, and it's actually a bit...

on the hard drive. I want to have XP and Vista on it; would it be better to install Vista first and then XP or XP first and then Vista? Advantages or disadvantages of each? Thanks for your help! Xp first then vista Older versions generally dont recognize...

Install Vista on one Hard Drive, Windows 7 on Hard Drive 2. Dear Tom's ppls, I have Vista installed on my Hard Drive, 250 GB. But i recently purchased a 2nd Hard Drive, 500 GB, and i want to install Windows 7 on it. Is that possible, to have both separately?....

other hardware changes. By keeping Vista installed on the hard drive will the new mobo be able to run off it? If a reinstall of vista is necessary, will i be able to do it just using a recovery partition from the hard drive? (no recovery cd was provided...

the hard drive - I got an error saying I can't access the drive. So I redownloaded the drivers and tried again. This time it allowed me to install the driver, but I still couldn't format/partition/install on the hard drive. So am I missing something here?...