Rockhound SG I'm getting a new laptop.....its preinstalled with home premium but it cant run adminpak and join a domain how????so sad...how to do werk liddat... not being able to run adminpak isnt a problem...main thing must join domain so... can i buy Vista Business OEM version (full) and upgrade from there?...cos windows anytime upgrade is not available in this region for the time being... i would wanna install xp pro in a separate partition but have read that once installed vista wont boot up......some citing that it might be a problem caused by 2 different kinds of dualbooting systems pls help
hiphop2009 SG u can install both xp and vista together~ use this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en#filelist for upgrades, u hav to seek ur com's manufacturer for assiatance~...
Rockhound SG this one migrating from old to new leh wat if new to old?.... the onli reason i want a xp pro in it is because i need to run administrative tools and join a domain
ndmmxiaomayi SG Should be can... http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/wifi/vista_bootstrap_wired.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/wifi/vista_bootstrap_wireless.mspx Adminpak - is it the Winternals Adminpak? If yes, then you run out of luck. It works on XP and below. You can't upgrade Home Premium to Business edition. See here. You can install Vista and XP. http://lifehacker.com/software/top/windows-vista-beta-how-to-dual-boot-windows-xp-and-windows-vista-179906.php Installing Vista and XP together might cause problems because they use the same file system, which is NTFS. This is an age-old issue, it happened with previous versions of Windows. Windows 95, 98 and ME will never work together, because all uses the FAT32 system. Better still, all uses the same boot file, which literally crashed it. That's why Microsoft will never help you troubleshoot, only asking to you to reformat. One you damage the boot file, that's it, reformat is on the way. The same thing for Vista and XP. Since you are talking about domain, I believe you are in a business environment? If yes, get a spare PC to play. I don't think your company is so kiam siap until there's no spare PC.
Rockhound SG adminpak by microsoft so i can access my server 03 so leceh wanna get a new laptop...but with vista...and court's unwillingness to downgrade to xp pro or upgrade to business...really dampens my mood
ndmmxiaomayi SG I don't think Courts will offer to downgrade. You have to downgrade it yourself. Besides, it's impossible to upgrade to Business, only straight to Ultimate. Microsoft set the rules, nothing to do with Courts.
hiphop2009 SG dun go courts. get it somewhere else....n court's deal nt really dat gd, in my opinion~
