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Just like it says. I got Vista Ultimate today, installed it, then went to install my Maxtor One Touch III USB 2.0 since all of the drivers for my hardware is on there. At first it didnt detect the drive, then I turned the drive off and back on, then it detected it. Windows installed the driver for the backup drive and I was good to go. I got to install one thing off of the drive, I had to reinstall my computer after that. When my computer came back on the dirve wouldnt connect again. I dont get it? Its like Vista has something that is blocking the hard drive. The maxtor program says their is no drive connected when their is. Thanks in advance.

Hello this is my first post.I have a 6 year old Dell demension 8100 running XP service pack 2. my hard drive is full so I installed second hard...

Hello everyone............I just ordered a copy of Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade. I think I am going to get an external hard drive to backup my current Windows XP Home. I have never done this before so I had a few questions.

I have a 100 GB Hard Drive on my laptop. I am using 50 GB, and have 50 GB free. If I backup everything on my computer now to my new external hard drive, which will probably be a 100 GB, will that keep windows xp, and everything just like it is on my computer?

If I don't happen to like Vista on my laptop, can I just plug the external hard drive in to my laptop and reload XP and my software programs, files, and settings?

I purchased a new computer a couple weeks ago:
HP a1700n
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ dual core processor
250 GB hard drive
1 GB ram (expandable to 4 GB)
Windows Vista Home Premium

My problem is with the hard drive space. 250 GB is more than enough space for me, but the problem is that it's started disappearing for no reason. When I got it, it had around 230 GB which was fine, and after I transferred my files/programs from my old computer it had around 200-210 GB. Well lately it's just disappeared without me even saving anything or downloading hardly anything. It went from 200 to 193 to 187 to 183 somehow.

I have read losts of posts about Vista installed on a partition or XP on a Vista machine but I can't find any with my exact problem?

I have XP pro installed on my Seagate 80GB drive and have now installed Vista Premium on my 40gb Maxtor Drive. If I change boot order in bios then can start both XP and Vista ok.

I then used Vistabootpro on the Vista machine and now when I boot the Vista drive get a list of Vista or XP. Boots into Vista fine but when I try XP I get error message about unable to find boot.ini file?. I think it looking at the wrong drive for the boot.ini file? One funny thing is both Operating Systems think they are drive C and label the other drive D and vise versa?