Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

Have a look in Smiths.. Apparently it's been on the coverdisk for several PC mags.

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

yep did that but couldn't find it

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

Dont beat yourself up about it to much lol

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

ah well , thanks for your help chaps

windows vista installation problem
 

got an acer laptop right with 256mb ram and it said i could install vista beta 2 so i went to install and it said i only have 190mb! whats up

Re: windows vista installation problem
 

At a guess I'd say that it's using 64mb for gfx?

Re: windows vista installation problem
 

what its got a graphics card yeah

Re: windows vista installation problem
 

My laptop has a graphics card - but it has it's own memory. I'm assuming you're shares it's memory.

Anyway - know you know why it's reporting less ram :)

Incidentally I thought (and i'm obviously wrong) that vista needed 512mb ram ro install?

Re: windows vista installation problem
 

It uses 600MB with a default install so it'd probably run on 256MB but with a Hell of a lot of pageing. I doubt it'd even run that well on 512.

Re: [MERGED] Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

Had a weird problem.Had a machine with vista and xp installed sold the guts leaving me with the spare hard drives not the os one.Funny thing is the boot loader for vista had installed itself on a dvd images hard drive and made it system so when I installed new guts and xp the vista loader was still there very confusing.Its gone now but the drive had to be installed on a different controller to confuse it,Anyone who of an easy way to get rid of the loader on a drive with no os on it??

Re: [MERGED] Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

Try fixmbr on the recovery console maybe?

Re: [MERGED] Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

how do you get that to fix the mbr on a non boot disk though? you open recovery and log into an os. you can bootcfg /rebuild but the rogue loader isnt recognised as an operating system

Re: [MERGED] Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

zapping the disk with
http://www.bttr-software.de/products/bootmgr/
should clear the mbr.

or just boot with the linux livecd and use kparted
a 'partion magic' type app for linux.
http://xmelegance.org/kparted/index.html

i think Kanotix 2005-2.iso had it on there

Re: [MERGED] Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

cheers ill take a look

Re: [MERGED] Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

XOSL could also do it as you can write several types of bootblock to overwrite the bad one.

as could Ranish Partition Manager
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...&postcount=195