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Name: Jophster (by jophster)
Date: December 5, 2007 at 10:43:13 Pacific
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Hi.
I have taken my PC into a repair shop and they have formatted my drive completly. The I have a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate on DVD. I don't think its bootable. Im not sure...
The only bootable OS I have is Win2K and in the past I have always had to install 2K, XP then Vista. I am just so fed up of it now that I need to find a way to install my copy of Vista from scratch. Can anybody help?

Many Thanks,
Jophster



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Response Number 1
Name: mavis007
Date: December 5, 2007 at 11:23:50 Pacific
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..."I need to find a way to install my copy of Vista from scratch..."

here's one way:

take it back to the repair shop and pay the extra $5 to have Vista installed.
... then give him a $25 tip.

(... sorry I got brain freeze)


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Response Number 2
Name: Jophster (by jophster)
Date: December 5, 2007 at 12:10:03 Pacific
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No help at all.
Genuine answers please!


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Response Number 3
Name: pgckkwvdzm
Date: December 5, 2007 at 14:11:43 Pacific
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Your optical drive isn't a bootable one or you haven't configured first boot device in the motherboard BIOS.


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Response Number 4
Name: chrismr
Date: December 5, 2007 at 14:15:46 Pacific
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on first boot, press F12 to choose which device to boot from. Is you CD reader DVD/CD ?

I have never seen a version of windows that is not bootable since windows 95.
Perhaps they gave you an ISO image CD.



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Response Number 5
Name: WebsWonder
Date: December 5, 2007 at 16:10:10 Pacific
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Nice PC, where did you buy it, or is it just the case??

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Response Number 6
Name: Sabertooth
Date: December 5, 2007 at 18:15:54 Pacific
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Well, the Vista disc is a DVD & will not work if all you have is a plain CDROM drive.


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Response Number 7
Name: suatcini
Date: December 6, 2007 at 06:45:21 Pacific
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If you cannot boot to your Vista DVD for whatever reason, then you can ask the repair shop, or a friend, to install Vista Ultimate on your PC without a product key and, when Vista is up and running, you enter your product key to activate Vista.

I think you know Vista, unlike other editions of Windows, can be installed without a product key and used for a month for trial purposes. You can extend this trial period to four months.

Regards


SuatCINI


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Response Number 8
Name: XpUser
Date: December 6, 2007 at 08:19:38 Pacific
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If you want to extend the four month trial period over and over again indefinitely, don't ever upgrade Vista to SP1. Vista SP1 closed this M$'s embarrasing hole.

i_Xp/VistaUser


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Response Number 9
Name: UnswoleLilDude
Date: December 6, 2007 at 09:05:55 Pacific
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To boot to a Windows Vista DVD you need a DVD drive capable of booting to a DVD and your BIOS needs to be set to boot to the DVD drive before your hard drive.

Once you've booted from the Windows Vista DVD the guide below can walk you through a clean install of Windows Vista.

http://www.maximumpcguides.com/wind...

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A free source of hundreds of high quality, easy to understand and follow Windows Vista help and how-to guides that help you get the most out of your compute


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Response Number 10
Name: Jophster (by jophster)
Date: December 6, 2007 at 10:19:03 Pacific
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Hi. Ok, thanks for that. I think its an ISO image that I made the disc from but I dont know. I will let you know as soon as I have had a go...


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Response Number 11
Name: suatcini
Date: December 6, 2007 at 11:34:27 Pacific
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In reply to #8, I tried but could not go past beyond the four month grace period. Not that I needed to, but just out of curiosity.

Regards

suatcini


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