Thanks MudCrab. It may have been clearer if I had said "brand name" instead of OEM. That is what I am after. Dave
I am curious as to how many purchasers bought DD to enable dual booting. A second related question is, How many of those with Vista have OEM...
Re: OS Selector: Vista unknown, booted diagnostic progs, after Selector disabled. Now I don't think you need to mess with OSS. In my...
Re: OS Selector: Vista unknown, booted diagnostic progs, after Selector disabled. Now Here is a link to the repair portion of the Vista CD. You...
Re: OS Selector: Vista unknown, booted diagnostic progs, after Selector disabled. Now I had some experience with OSS and an HP OEM installed...
Good question. I bought DD solely to dual boot XP with OEM Vista pre-installed. Then I find that it doesn't work with OEM Vista. Then, as...
I've read here about the importance of hiding different OS's from each other. I did a search on "hide from" in the DD Manual and came up empty....
The more I read the more unnerved I get. There seems to be a large number of ways for things to go wrong. Can someone explain why I got lucky?...
Yes. Boot from the TI bootable media, probably a CD you made, and hit restore. Check only the MBR line and hit proceed. That did it for me....
I used ATI to backup my C partition and then "recovered" the partition to a new drive. I did this in part to test ATI. I unplugged the old disk...
I've been reading about hidden partitions in this forum and the DD manual tells how to hide and unhide partitions. But it doesn't indicate why...
If Dell is like HP, you already have an image of the original disk state labelled a 'restore' or 'recovery' partition. If you make your recovery...
I got stuck when I installed OSS and started that. It didn't see Vista (OEM) and then it wouldn't let me deactivate because it didn't see an OS....
Common problem. OSS can't see Vista, build 2160 (Vista Home Premium preinstalled by HP). After activating OSS couldn't boot into Vista and...
The original post says to create the text file with Notepad. Then place in the C directory. So boot.ini is then a Notepad file, right? I am...
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