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Windows Vista - 2 day old laptop fzzzzzt.

S-CrowS-Crow
edited October 2009 in Everything Else
Can anyone give me some insight. Just purchased one of the latest HP laptops at Costco. Tried to boot the laptop this morning and it gave an error that it could not load Vista and could not automatically repair itself. I've tried to boot for over an hour and it just won't go. Outside of taking it back, any suggestions or is this not unusual for Vista?

Lovely. I just bought the thing 2 days ago.

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  • The_TimThe_Tim
    If it's only 2 days old, why wouldn't you want to just take it back? The process is quite painless at Costco.
  • S-CrowS-Crow
    I will. I've never run Vista so I wasn't sure if this is something to look forward to. I don't think it is a hardware issue, but just guessing.
  • rose-colored-coolaidrose-colored-coolaid
    That's not a typical Vista issue. I don't like the OS very much, but in my experience it does boot.

    If you want a Windows laptop, you might consider returning this one and waiting a few months until Windows 7 is released anyways. You'll end up needing that upgrade (since Vista will rapidly vanish) and you can save yourself about $100 if you wait.
  • MarkorMarkor
    After using Vista for many months, I'd like to change to XP. If I buy Win XP full product, I can flatten my Vista box (using Win XP install) and end up with XP only right? I have a 4GB machine; I understand XP will see only 3GB, right?

    I don't want Win 7 because some stuff I use undoubtedly won't support it for a long time. I figure XP will be supported for a few years yet since it's on netbooks selling now.
  • deejayohdeejayoh
    Markor wrote:
    After using Vista for many months, I'd like to change to XP. If I buy Win XP full product, I can flatten my Vista box (using Win XP install) and end up with XP only right? I have a 4GB machine; I understand XP will see only 3GB, right?

    I don't want Win 7 because some stuff I use undoubtedly won't support it for a long time. I figure XP will be supported for a few years yet since it's on netbooks selling now.
    netbooks are going to flip to win7 in about 10 days. Win7 rocks on a netbook. xp will not be supported long term
  • deejayohdeejayoh
    S-Crow wrote:
    Can anyone give me some insight. Just purchased one of the latest HP laptops at Costco. Tried to boot the laptop this morning and it gave an error that it could not load Vista and could not automatically repair itself. I've tried to boot for over an hour and it just won't go. Outside of taking it back, any suggestions or is this not unusual for Vista?

    Lovely. I just bought the thing 2 days ago.
    Should be a rescue disk that came with the machine, or a segment on the machine that you can repair from. Usually involved hitting f12 during boot sequence

    but in general I'd agree with Tim. Take it back, and wait 2 weeks for a Win7 machine. It is sooooooo much better than vista. I have been running it for 3-4 months and it has been super solid even in pre-release forms.
  • MarkorMarkor
    deejayoh wrote:
    netbooks are going to flip to win7 in about 10 days. Win7 rocks on a netbook. xp will not be supported long term
    If history is a guide it'll be years before some stuff is supported on Win7, otherwise I'd be more interested (a friend really likes win7--he's a tech freak however). For example, a printer I just bought came with XP and Vista drivers only. I could probably hunt down and download a Win7 driver, but multiply that by a lot of stuff. Some popular stuff doesn't support Vista yet. Also if history is a guide some of my stuff will no longer work with Win7. I'm not concerned about XP support from MS for a few years, by which time netbooks with Win7 could be < $200.
  • deejayohdeejayoh
    Markor wrote:
    deejayoh wrote:
    netbooks are going to flip to win7 in about 10 days. Win7 rocks on a netbook. xp will not be supported long term
    If history is a guide it'll be years before some stuff is supported on Win7, otherwise I'd be more interested (a friend really likes win7--he's a tech freak however). For example, a printer I just bought came with XP and Vista drivers only. I could probably hunt down and download a Win7 driver, but multiply that by a lot of stuff. Some popular stuff doesn't support Vista yet. Also if history is a guide some of my stuff will no longer work with Win7. I'm not concerned about XP support from MS for a few years, by which time netbooks with Win7 could be < $200.
    History is not a very good guide on this one. I've installed win7 beta on my 5 year old home laptop, on my 2 year old work laptop, and on my brand new touchscreen HP desktop. In all cases it has pulled up just about every drive out there. Feels like driver coverage is already better than Vista ever was. I'm not usually one to drink the company koolaid, but I think they really got this release right. Across 3 machines I think I've had two devices that won't work and neither has been an issue in terms of usability. Interestingly they were both on my 2 year old Lenovo X300. One of them they just released the driver for today (10 days before RTM) so now I'm down to a single missing driver.
  • MarkorMarkor
    Good report, thanks. Maybe I'll be an earlier adopter on Win7 then.
  • perfectfireperfectfire
    Most Vista drivers will work in Windows 7 so it's not the same as the transition from XP to Vista.
  • MarkorMarkor
    The program compatibility wizards looks nice. I liked XP from the get-go, despite some warts until SP2. I think that was a general consensus. Maybe it will be the same with Win7.
  • boorekboorek
    edited July 2017
    I think that you will find necessary drivers for your Windows. And friend, why do you use Vista? It's awful. Everybody here knows that Vista it is one of the worst versions of Windows
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