Been using XP pro for years on new builds, fresh reformats. Must have installed it 50 times at least between new builds for friends on all sorts of different comps over the years. Never had one problem.
A buddy gave me his HP XW8200 workstation (Dual Xeon 3.4, 2 gig ram, 250 gig SATA HDD)
I've got two versions of Vista from my college bookstore I've been sitting on (Ultimate and Business). So I figure hey...let put this on my new (yet old) setup.
Ultimate gets partway through and gives me some error message about "could not set the offline locale". Kind of installs...then tells me bootmgr is missing. I rebuild the bootmgr in command prompt only to get a little further with more "unexpected" windows errors. Then I pop the server HDD into my Black X case on my old comp and it's corrupted. Reformat in XP, put back in server and try again. Same thing....corrupts the HDD again. I try out the Business version with the same results. I try a new HDD (500 gig SATA) and same results...I try a new DVD drive and same results.
Finally I put in my XP Pro...bam...installs from boot and I have Windows up and running in 15 minutes.
Is Vista that crappy? I can't imagine what is going on during the install.
I'll probably just stick with XP I guess...although I'm debating trying to do an in windows upgrade from the ultimate disc to see what happens. I'm betting more hard drive corruption and errors...
A buddy gave me his HP XW8200 workstation (Dual Xeon 3.4, 2 gig ram, 250 gig SATA HDD)
I've got two versions of Vista from my college bookstore I've been sitting on (Ultimate and Business). So I figure hey...let put this on my new (yet old) setup.
Ultimate gets partway through and gives me some error message about "could not set the offline locale". Kind of installs...then tells me bootmgr is missing. I rebuild the bootmgr in command prompt only to get a little further with more "unexpected" windows errors. Then I pop the server HDD into my Black X case on my old comp and it's corrupted. Reformat in XP, put back in server and try again. Same thing....corrupts the HDD again. I try out the Business version with the same results. I try a new HDD (500 gig SATA) and same results...I try a new DVD drive and same results.
Finally I put in my XP Pro...bam...installs from boot and I have Windows up and running in 15 minutes.
Is Vista that crappy? I can't imagine what is going on during the install.
I'll probably just stick with XP I guess...although I'm debating trying to do an in windows upgrade from the ultimate disc to see what happens. I'm betting more hard drive corruption and errors...