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  Hi, If you have that many damaged sectors, then you shold replace the drive and do a clean installation. A drive with bad sectors will not get better, and likely will get rapidly worse. Vista does not offer a repair install as did XP and previous versions due to a major change in the way it is installed. The closest thing, an in-place upgrade, has to be initiated from withing a working installation. There's no way around this....

  bangel17 wrote: > > Thank you for everything for everyone who answered. i installed vista > again and well you were right is a hard drive problem. ill make sure the > computer gets in the hands of someone who really knows about this so it > can get it back to normal!.. > > just one more question though..any idea what couldve cost the > problem?..they are usually very careful...

  "alwayswonder" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:8b9b91a482da4547871f29f18458139b@nntp-gateway.com... > > Have a Home Premium system which has developed bad sectors and will not > boot presumably because boot files are damaged. Successfully ran CHKDSK > from a BartPE CD and marked those sectors. More than likely the drive will continue to develop bad...

  What you do is return your upgrade edition of Windows Vista and purchase a "full version" of Windows Vista and perform a "clean install". "smackajack" <smackajack.3aaa84b@vistabanter.com> wrote in message news:smackajack.3aaa84b@vistabanter.com... > > I finally trashed my old pc, built many years ago, then built a new one > and want to install...

  The issues keep coming though. My speaker channels are crossed and there is no bass. I have downloaded the latest driver and creative console launcher, yet am still having issues. I have a X-Fi Fatality sound card. -- lostoften  

  Smackjack, Do you know why your rebuilt PC will not support a Windows 2000 installation? "Carey Frisch" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message news:eMiO2vPcJHA.3948@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > What you do is return your upgrade edition of Windows Vista > and purchase a "full version" of Windows Vista and perform > a "clean install". >...

  It makes no difference whether you can install 2000, or not. There is NO upgrade path from 2000 to vista; has to be a clean install. Follow the links given to you for clean install from upgrade, or buy full version of Vista. -- Mad Mike "smackajack" wrote: > > I finally trashed my old pc, built many years ago, then built a new one > and want to install Vista Home Premium. Having purchased a...

  See http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_upgrade_clean.asp "smackajack" <smackajack.3aaa84b@vistabanter.com> wrote in message news:smackajack.3aaa84b@vistabanter.com... > > I finally trashed my old pc, built many years ago, then built a new one > and want to install Vista Home Premium. Having purchased a full version > of Windows 2000 back then, I purchased an...

  Carey Frisch wrote: > The fact that one can work around a technical limitation doesn’t make > the practice legal. > > See: > > The Vista license “loophole” that isn’t > http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=420 > > and > > More nonsense about Vista upgrades > http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1909 Carey, I think you missed the part I wrote about...

  Josh White wrote: > On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:15:59 -0700, Bruce Chambers > <bchambers@cable0ne.n3t> wrote: > >> OEM versions must (generally - there are a few exceptions) be sold with >> a piece of hardware (normally a motherboard or hard rive, if not an >> entire PC) and is _permanently_ bound to the first PC on which it's >> installed....