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K here's the story: I bought a comp with Vista home edition included,
it didn't spazz like I expected it to, and for the most part worked
fine when I disabled the special, CPU-intensive graphical appearances.
However, for a processor 3x faster than my previous, I only noticed a
somewhat improved performance in applications previously used on my
older PC with XP installed.
I decided to keep Vista in an isolated partition and proceed to
reserve the rest of the disk for a partition to install XP on. But
then I thought why not just clone the sectors of my previous disk onto
another partition on the new PC? I launched a hex editor in
preperation but it wouldn't let me edit the sectors of the other,
empty partition. It appeared Vista utilizes some write-protection
scheme. So I decided to create another partition to install another
Windows XP temporarily just to use the hex editor without limitation.
I created a small, 40 GB partition and assigned H as the drive letter.
I popped in the WinXP installation CD, and it installed in less than
10 minutes. Everything was aight except no sound... 'said no sound
device recognized, or something. Then, I noticed that it switched
drive letters with Vista. the 40 GB partition with XP was now drive C
and the 120 GB with Vista drive H. I couldn't boot up Vista anymore
cuz it said hal.dll was corrupted.
I switched drive letters so now the larger Vista partition is drive C
again, but the problem prevailed.
I tried to grab all the hal*.dlls from this hidden 10 GB partition
that appears to be a backup of all Vista's system/installation files
in case of failure. The exportion was successful but when I tried to
move them into C:\Windows\System32 it said access denied.
Now how the **** do I bypass that??
Thanks in advance.
it didn't spazz like I expected it to, and for the most part worked
fine when I disabled the special, CPU-intensive graphical appearances.
However, for a processor 3x faster than my previous, I only noticed a
somewhat improved performance in applications previously used on my
older PC with XP installed.
I decided to keep Vista in an isolated partition and proceed to
reserve the rest of the disk for a partition to install XP on. But
then I thought why not just clone the sectors of my previous disk onto
another partition on the new PC? I launched a hex editor in
preperation but it wouldn't let me edit the sectors of the other,
empty partition. It appeared Vista utilizes some write-protection
scheme. So I decided to create another partition to install another
Windows XP temporarily just to use the hex editor without limitation.
I created a small, 40 GB partition and assigned H as the drive letter.
I popped in the WinXP installation CD, and it installed in less than
10 minutes. Everything was aight except no sound... 'said no sound
device recognized, or something. Then, I noticed that it switched
drive letters with Vista. the 40 GB partition with XP was now drive C
and the 120 GB with Vista drive H. I couldn't boot up Vista anymore
cuz it said hal.dll was corrupted.
I switched drive letters so now the larger Vista partition is drive C
again, but the problem prevailed.
I tried to grab all the hal*.dlls from this hidden 10 GB partition
that appears to be a backup of all Vista's system/installation files
in case of failure. The exportion was successful but when I tried to
move them into C:\Windows\System32 it said access denied.
Now how the **** do I bypass that??
Thanks in advance.