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[Guest]

can u copy windows vista thats been in stall on to other hard has the one ive
got it his failing with me

 

[Ken Blake]

can u copy windows vista thats been in stall on to other hard has the one
ive
got it his failing with me

If your first language isn't English, you'd probably do better asking in a
newsgroup for your own language.

If your language is English, please try again, writing with standard
spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. I can't make head or tail of what
you've written here.

 

[Bill Yanaire]

I think your keyboard is sticking. Try reinstalling Vista on another hard
drive.

 

[Guest]

ive got windows vista can i copy it to other hardisk with out reinstalling it
again

 

[Bill Yanaire]

Of course you can copy it to any hard disk you wish. But it won't work.
You need to reinstall it.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Of course you can copy it to any hard disk you wish. But it won't work.
You need to reinstall it.

You don't need to reinstall after cloning from one drive to another.

ss.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

can u copy windows vista thats been in stall on to other hard has the one
ive
got it his failing with me

Yes, you can, but it can be a little difficult for a beginner.

You can buy Acronis TrueImage for this, but if you tell me what makes of
hard drives you have there, there may be a free disk cloning program from
the manufacturer.

ss.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

If your first language isn't English, you'd probably do better asking in a
newsgroup for your own language.

If your language is English, please try again, writing with standard
spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. I can't make head or tail of
what you've written here.

It's very easy to figure out what he is saying if you think about the
context.

ss.

 

[Bill Yanaire]

It's very easy to figure out what he is saying if you think about the
context.

ss.

Yes, but who wants to. Why can't someone who is looking for help, compose a
sentence or paragraph that others can easily understand?

That isn't too much to ask, is it?

 

[theclyde]

Yes, but who wants to. Why can't someone who is looking for help, compose a
sentence or paragraph that others can easily understand?

That isn't too much to ask, is it?- Hide quoted text -

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Why can't somebody who is publishing an operating system, create a
product that works and can be easily understood?

That isn't too much to ask, is it?

 

[Ken Blake]

ive got windows vista can i copy it to other hardisk with out reinstalling
it
again

Only if you copy it by cloning, using a special program like Acronis True
Image or Ghost.

 

[Ken Blake]

It's very easy to figure out what he is saying if you think about the
context.

I'm not interested in trying to figure out what someone means. If he wants
my help, it's *his* job to make himself understood, not mine to "figure out"
anything.

 

[Paul Randall]

Why can't somebody who is publishing an operating system, create a
product that works and can be easily understood?

That isn't too much to ask, is it?

When you think about it, yes it is too much to ask. Let's say you are the
OS's manufacturer. Three years before your planned release, you publish
your planned requirements that hardware manufacturers will have to follow
for their drivers for their products to work with the OS, without stepping
on the drivers of other products. You publish similar set of requirements
for software compatability. If you have ever worked on a complex task, you
know that often you have a moving target as to what must be done and how it
must be done., so periodically you publish changes to the requirements, The
hardware manufacturers can work hard to meet those requirements or not, as
they choose. The software manufacturers also choose how hard they want to
work on this. They also choose how much effort goes into new products vs
products currently being manufactured vs products no longer manufactured.
Thousands of projects in hundreds of companies must all come together with
software and hardware that won't step on any of the others with whom they
may reside in the same computer. Most of these projects don't even know the
others exist.

Who do you blame when hardware vendor C's driver screws up software vendor
B's software so it crashes Microsoft's OS, but your only symptom is that the
OS crashed?

Who do you blame when User A installs OS-incompatible software that
interferes with hardware vendor C's driver so it crashes Microsoft's OS only
on random Tuesdays (auto update day), but your only symptom is that the OS
crashed on auto update day?

-Paul Randall

 

[theclyde]

When you think about it, yes it is too much to ask. Let's say you are the
OS's manufacturer. Three years before your planned release, you publish
your planned requirements that hardware manufacturers will have to follow
for their drivers for their products to work with the OS, without stepping
on the drivers of other products. You publish similar set of requirements
for software compatability. If you have ever worked on a complex task, you
know that often you have a moving target as to what must be done and how it
must be done., so periodically you publish changes to the requirements, The
hardware manufacturers can work hard to meet those requirements or not, as
they choose. The software manufacturers also choose how hard they want to
work on this. They also choose how much effort goes into new products vs
products currently being manufactured vs products no longer manufactured.
Thousands of projects in hundreds of companies must all come together with
software and hardware that won't step on any of the others with whom they
may reside in the same computer. Most of these projects don't even know the
others exist.

Who do you blame when hardware vendor C's driver screws up software vendor
B's software so it crashes Microsoft's OS, but your only symptom is that the
OS crashed?

Who do you blame when User A installs OS-incompatible software that
interferes with hardware vendor C's driver so it crashes Microsoft's OS only
on random Tuesdays (auto update day), but your only symptom is that the OS
crashed on auto update day?

-Paul Randall

Very valid arguements, and I think I agree completely as far as
device and software compatability goes. But almost all of the issues I
have had, and most of the issues I see (it seems) have to do with the
efficacy of Vista in and of itself. A clean install of Vista on a
computer with 100% compatable hardware and no 3rd party software
(other than signed drivers) should not have the problems that Vista
has. No OS is perfect, no GUI is perfect. But it would be nice if all
the new features worked the way they are supposed to. It seems that a
lot of Vista's issues are resolved by turning off or disabling the
enhancements.

Is your file manager unusably slow? Turn off Vista's default settings
or get a third party app.
Your music playback is bad? Turn off Vista's new sound enhancements
Problems with security? Turn off Vista's new security features?
Problems with the new Index and search? Turn it off and get a new
search app

Now I will be the first to admit there are a lot of nice featuers in
Vista - features I miss when I am at work. And I will defiantely say
it is more stable than XP (which was pretty stable). I have not
crashed once. But tasks that used to take me 10 minutes now take
close to 30, and things that should just "work" cause more frustration
than it is worth sometimes. There is a learning curve with any new
software (Operating Systems included). The learning curve is much
steeper when the software seems to work against you.

Some OS releases work. Some do not. My move from Windows 3 to 3.1 to
95 to NT to XP to Vista has been pretty much problem free, aside from
my move from XP to Vista. All the predecessors had issues. Moving
forward resolved some issue, created other issues. But it never
stopped me from working.

Fortunately I avoided Bob and ME. Is Vista going to be the next ME?
Did I throw away $400?

 

[Paul Randall]

Very valid arguements, and I think I agree completely as far as
device and software compatability goes. But almost all of the issues I
have had, and most of the issues I see (it seems) have to do with the
efficacy of Vista in and of itself. A clean install of Vista on a
computer with 100% compatable hardware and no 3rd party software
(other than signed drivers) should not have the problems that Vista
has. No OS is perfect, no GUI is perfect. But it would be nice if all
the new features worked the way they are supposed to. It seems that a
lot of Vista's issues are resolved by turning off or disabling the
enhancements.

Is your file manager unusably slow? Turn off Vista's default settings
or get a third party app.
Your music playback is bad? Turn off Vista's new sound enhancements
Problems with security? Turn off Vista's new security features?
Problems with the new Index and search? Turn it off and get a new
search app

Now I will be the first to admit there are a lot of nice featuers in
Vista - features I miss when I am at work. And I will defiantely say
it is more stable than XP (which was pretty stable). I have not
crashed once. But tasks that used to take me 10 minutes now take
close to 30, and things that should just "work" cause more frustration
than it is worth sometimes. There is a learning curve with any new
software (Operating Systems included). The learning curve is much
steeper when the software seems to work against you.

Some OS releases work. Some do not. My move from Windows 3 to 3.1 to
95 to NT to XP to Vista has been pretty much problem free, aside from
my move from XP to Vista. All the predecessors had issues. Moving
forward resolved some issue, created other issues. But it never
stopped me from working.

Fortunately I avoided Bob and ME. Is Vista going to be the next ME?
Did I throw away $400?

I agree pretty much with what you say except this:

A clean install of Vista on a
computer with 100% compatable hardware and no 3rd party software
(other than signed drivers) should not have the problems that Vista
has.

1) Microsoft has no control over "a computer" containing hardware (BIOS,
video chips, etc) that causes problems with the OS.
2) Microsoft has no control over signing. A signed driver only means that
someone is claiming some kind of responsibility for it. I think NVida has
released many signed updates to its drivers as it attemps to fix
vista-related problems.

Both of these things can makes your definition of a clean install of Vista
seem very buggy.
On the other hand, Microsoft has released many updates to fix Vista too. As
someone else has said many times in this newsgroup, the time to get the most
reliable version of any software is at the end of its life cycle. For Vista
that could be 5 years from now.

I'm willing to trade the frustration of the problems for the fun/use of new
features. Sadly, many people don't understand that the tradeoffs exist,
much less understand how to evaluate them. Most of us just want to buy and
try the new bling on sale without thinking about the pressures the corporate
enterprises are putting on each other and compromises being made to maximize
each one's bottom line, all of which drives the bling being offered.
Microsoft is perfectly happy to continue selling WXP to its favored OEMs who
build business XP systems for those of us who refuse to move to Vista at
this time.

-Paul Randall

 

[DP]

Fortunately I avoided Bob and ME. Is Vista going to be the next ME?

Well, Bob wasn't really an operating system. It was more like a
functionality suite. Think MS Works, but dumbed down even more (if that's
even possible), with a stupid animated character thrown in.

I missed your original post, so I don't know if you included system specs in
there. The info I would be most interested in would be what kind of
processor you're using, how much memory you have and how big is/are your
hard drive(s).