Vista is gone - but it went down kicking and screaming
Saturday, December 6, 2008 by Fuzzy Logic | Discussion: Personal Computing
Some time ago I decided I'd had enough of Vista and would go back to XP. After 2 BSODS and explorer crashing when I tried to rename a file, I decided now was the time.
Sounds easy... I disconected 3 of my four drives, partitioned and formatted my O/S drive, and started the XP install procedure. Hmmm, evertime I got to the part where I expected it to say 'Press any key to boot from disk...' it just went straight into setup again. Nothing I did to the drive with either formatting or partitioning would get past this. Clearly, Vista still had it's grubby little paws on this disk.
So, back to basics. Thankfully when I built this pc I kept a floppy drive... Out came my Windows98 boot disk and straight into DOS. From there I used my equally ancient Killdisk. It took an hour and a half for Killdisk to finish, but it took Vista and erased its ass. Vista is no more, it has ceased to be - it is an ex O/S.
XP installed as smooth as ever. So here I am, in an O/S which so far has no drivers or programs installed. I'll get to that later. Meanwhile I can stick two fingers up (in the form of a 'V') to Vista. Hasta la Vista Vista, as they say 
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Reply #162 Monday, June 22, 2009 11:24 PM
"Their," not "there," dipshit.
Reply #163 Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:36 AM
Personal attacks. Go figure. No need for name calling.
Reply #164 Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:47 AM
IN REGARDS TO SSD
No more speculation. SSDs are worth the asking price. I have an OCZ Vertex 60GB, which is a cheaper model than the Intel X25-M which are the best running consumer SSDs out. THIS THING FLIES! It's amazing. It's the single biggest upgrade i've done for my computer, ever. This coming from someone who has been upgrading computers and building, etc. since he was 12. Me. Just buy one, it's worth the price and there's no reason to wait. It will be good for years to come, and is amazingly fast.
/commercial
Seriously. I love it.
Reply #166 Tuesday, June 23, 2009 3:10 AM
Surprised you didn't edit his comment there Jafo.
Reply #167 Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:18 AM
No more speculation. SSDs are worth the asking price. I have an OCZ Vertex 60GB, which is a cheaper model than the Intel X25-M which are the best running consumer SSDs out. THIS THING FLIES! It's amazing. It's the single biggest upgrade i've done for my computer, ever. This coming from someone who has been upgrading computers and building, etc. since he was 12. Me. Just buy one, it's worth the price and there's no reason to wait. It will be good for years to come, and is amazingly fast.
/commercial
Seriously. I love it.
Ah i have been curious about the OCZ. One thread a guy said it stutters sometimes and slows and then i read others saying its fine.
/shrug 
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Reply #168 Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:47 AM
/shrug
Apparently the issue was with the first release/early models - something to do with the controller - but that has been addressed in the later models, so i have read.
Reply #169 Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:46 PM
Ah i have been curious about the OCZ. One thread a guy said it stutters sometimes and slows and then i read others saying its fine.
/shrug
Apparently the issue was with the first release/early models - something to do with the controller - but that has been addressed in the later models, so i have read.
nice 
Reply #170 Friday, July 3, 2009 10:42 AM
I have a nice install of Vista x64 Ultimate.
Bets OS so far. better then XP. Well at least now. Release was very.. well. We all know what happened.
As for the UAC thing ... what pop-ups? Turn it off and Vista has never once bitched at me....
Reply #171 Friday, July 3, 2009 12:25 PM
Yup, Vista Ultimate, 1.5 years old installation, still no problems 
Regarding SSD's am i imagining, or is their expected age lesser than traditional HDD's?
Reply #172 Friday, July 3, 2009 1:18 PM
Vista has worked fine for me, no problems.
Buhbye, why didn't you just go the whole hog and install Windows 7 beta?
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Reply #161 Monday, June 22, 2009 9:21 PM
I should have said "Nice try to get me to argue."