Ditching Vista :D

Wang Chung · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:58 pm Post subject: Ditching Vista :D

Over the summer I set up a dual-boot using Vista. I was going to use an Acronis boot manager, but the Vista boot manager decides to override that. Even if I use Acronis, it heads to the Vista boot manager which gives the option of Vista (default) or "Older Windows OS" which is my XP partition.

I can't seem to modify the boot manager to be disabled, or, at the least, default to XP so I can just delete the Vista partition and move on without it. I've already shrunk it a bit, but I'm still running out of room and I wanna ditch it. I checked out some boot options IN Vista itself, but there wasn't anything about the other partition.
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ChrisT · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:21 pm Post subject:

Yeah, microsoft os's like to fuck with whatever boot manager is already installed, the only way I successfully installed my os's was using different hard drives, and installing each os while the other drives are unplugged. Once everything is installed I replug up everything and use GRUB to decide which OS I want to use.
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Brutus · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:08 pm Post subject:

Im really digging my Vista 64. You havee to do your homeework and get compatible equipment but i like mine a lot. DVD player I chose SUCKS but thats not microsoft's fault...
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Stealth · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:53 pm Post subject:

Brutus wrote:

Im really ditching my Vista 64.

My college upgraded to it and I've had nothing but problems. Fuck Vista.
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Wang Chung · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:55 pm Post subject:

Vista on my tablet was a no-go. Something was really messed up with the touch pad and I wasn't sure. Plus certain drivers caused hard disk corruption - go figure that one out.
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RK-Mara · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:29 am Post subject:

I be happy with mah Vista. I hardly even remember what blue screen is like anymore.
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Brutus · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:37 am Post subject:

Stealth wrote:

Brutus wrote:

Im really ditching my Vista 64.

My college upgraded to it and I've had nothing but problems. Fuck Vista.

betcha the tards dont have compliant hardware... Vista aint that bad and Im pretty particular about my stuff.
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Max Periculosus · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:38 pm Post subject:

I love Vista x64 - it's fast, stable, etc. Easy way to manage your bootloader, Wang-

http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

I've used it to triple-boot Ubuntu, XP, and Vista. Easy to configure, too.
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