Clean Vista install WITH NO ACTIVATION

[nobscot6]

Yes, they have stopped shipping them for a while now. You need to be resourceful to obtain one, or you can use any other disc you might have access to, like a retail disc or something. This is probably the most painful part of the process.

Yep, knew a friend that got one w/ their HP Laptop in August, haven't heard much about it since then.

i'm resourceful

[davidt1]

Hi everyone,

I need help. First, thanks to Orev for this thread. I was able to install Vista, but I think I might have missed some drivers because Flash8 won't install, the LS dvd that came with my DV9207 and an Epson printer are not recognized. Can someone please point me to the thread that shows which drivers are needed along with a description like Sp14433 is the video driver? I know I must have missed something, but I don't know what. Thank you.

[nobscot6]

check on the "Epson website for" drivers/software for your model Epson printer

check on the LS SITE For your model driver

not sure about flash.......

Drivers for DV9207us w/ Vista 32Bit

[orev]

Hi everyone,

I need help. First, thanks to Orev for this thread. I was able to install Vista, but I think I might have missed some drivers because Flash8 won't install, the LS dvd that came with my DV9207 and an Epson printer are not recognized. Can someone please point me to the thread that shows which drivers are needed along with a description like Sp14433 is the video driver? I know I must have missed something, but I don't know what. Thank you.

Problems installing Flash would not be related to drivers. Make sure you are logged in as administrator when doing the install, and it might help if you disable your antivirus while installing it.

[davidt1]

check on the "Epson website for" drivers/software for your model Epson printer

check on the LS SITE For your model driver

not sure about flash.......

Drivers for DV9207us w/ Vista 32Bit

Thank you so much. I am downloading HP drivers right now. There are so many I don't know which ones to install. A while back some members made a list of must-have drivers and the sequence in which they should be installed. Can someone points me in the right direction? I appreciate your help. Thanks

[Blu-shu]

Thanks Orev for an excellent description of what to do and how to do it! Everything worked fine except that vista installed on the wrong partition as follows:

Hard drive is 250Gb (232Gib). I would like to partition the drive as follows:
C: Vista & standard programs (Open office, DTPublishing etc)45Gib
D: Games 30GiB
E: Document Files 30Gib
F: Multimedia 127Gib

During installation, the vista disc partitioning utility let me delete the original drives C: and D: and set up 4 new partitions as Disc 0 partitions 1 - 4, (formatted as NTFS) but it did not let me allocate a drive letter or tell it to install on the 45Gib drive. When I pressed the install now command button and let it do its stuff I find it has installed on the 127Gib partition. I have tried this twice with the same result.

How can i get Vista on the first partition? is there some utility which can setup the disc partitions, allocate drive letters and state which is the active partition before installing vista? Would this help?

[I want to partition the drive so that my documents and multi media are separate from the OS. I want the games separate to reduce the size of backup images of the OS & programs.]

[orev]

To install Vista on a specific partition, first make the partitions (as you have done), then select the partition you want Vista installed on (make sure the blue selection bar on the partition list is highlighted on the partition you want to use). Then press Next.

My guess is you created the last partition last, then had it selected when you pressed "Next".

[Rancor]

Does anyone know where to get the anytime upgrade dvd other then from microsoft? The links provided on the first page from compusa are no longer valid.

[davidt1]

I need to ask a couple of questions before I do another Vista install.

1. Does Vista ultimate take up more hard drive space than Vista home and is slower? I don't really need Ultimate if it takes up more space than Home.

2. A question on drivers. On this HP driver site http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...69389&lang=en#

I see the Intel Mobile chipset family driver and the Geforce video driver. Do I need to install both or just one. My laptop has Geforce video card. I see a Broadcom wireless lan driver and the Intel Pro/wireless driver. Do I need both or just one?

Thank you.

[nobscot6]

Does anyone know where to get the anytime upgrade dvd other then from microsoft? The links provided on the first page from compusa are no longer valid.

ann