I am trying to do a complete pc restore and I keep getting error 0x80042406.
The Windows Complete PC restore operation failed.
Error details: A data disk is currently set as active in BIOS.  Set some
other disk as active or use the DiskPart utility to clean the data disk, and

I have a new computer, installed it about ten days ago.
A few minutes ago, a message popped up in the bottom right corner telling me
to install Windows updates.  I checked and found that Windows wants me to
install between 386 and 423 MB of updates -- damn, that's about as much

Hi, I recently tried to set up a dual boot on my system with windows
Vista 32 and 64 bit. In short, after installing my copy of vista 64 bit,
I cannot boot into either OS. Here is what I did:
1. Defragmented my C: drive with PerfectDisk 2008.

Hello,
I got a pre installed version of Vista home Basic. Now i just purchased an
upgrade disc to Business. I cannot do the upgrade, the computer tells me that
i need to get e newer version. what do i need to do. hope someone can help me

vista home premium
get error on start up, blue screen. safe mode, repair, will not work.
will not boot
stop:0x0000050 (0x89e0000, 0x0000000,0x81083843,0x0000002)

Something has broken in my installer service. I can no longer add features
like SUA, IIS, etc.. The installer starts, the progress bar does not move an
iota, and after 15 mintes, the installer reports that some features could not
be installed.

How do I remove vista from recovery d

I've recently installed CS4, with Acrobat, and it seems to have messed up my
file associations in Vista. Although I can open PDF files on my Desktop, I
can't open them directly in emails without saving them first.
Ideally I want to go back to the system I had some time ago, where ...

Forgive me if i'm not in the right place and please don't flame.I have a
(NEC Lavie) OEM vista 32bit run in my computor.Several days ago,just for
fun,before I want to reinstall my computor since it seems too slowly,I
test run the vista loader 2.1.0 want to see how will it do for the ...

I have a DVD of Vista SP1 with all 64-bit editions.
With vLite, how to process all the editions of Vista in order to
create a autounattend.xml file in which there is a valid license key
to access automatically to all in my edition DVD?

I have tried to upgrade a Intel Core 2 Quad 2.33GHz, with 8GB Ram and NVIDIA
GeForce GT120 three different times. One without mod, once after deleting
Flash and once after removing my other two HD's. It fails every time during
the final phase of setup. The Video Drivers have ...

Hello all, I'm having a problem installing vista 64 bit or 32 bit after
I already had it on my machine. Here is what happened and what I have. I
built this machine just 3 weeks ago, mb is gigabyte ep45c-ud3r, e8400, 4
gigs of G.Skill pc 8500, 320gig Samsung sata drive, Samsung ...

My workplace has several computers that was delivered with Vista
Business, but without media. Can I download the Vista-iso from my MSDN
subscription to use for this deployment?
All the computers has the key-sticker on the underside.

Hey there, I'm a free lancing website designer and I'm in the process of
learning PHP. unfortunatly i cant get PHP to work. When i try to
manually configure the httpd.conf its saying i dont have administrator
power and there is no run as administrator option either.

I have a HP pavilion laptop which came with 64 bit vista ultimate
pre-installed.
I shrinked the OS partition (160 GB), created new partition (40 GB) for
64 bit windows 7 ultimate. After installation of Windows 7, I cannot see