Michael
Active Member
I've been having some strange issues with Vista, and I'm not sure what to do about them, as 'repair console' hasn't fixed them and a fresh 'recovery' didn't do anything.
Issues;
1.) I turned my computer completely off last night, when I turned it on this morning it installed a driver for an already installed and formatted 160GB HDD.. it showed the drive as 136GB (it has 109 left, it's got a lot on it) and it showed the drive as unallocated space.. I rebooted the PC, the drive appears as 109GB left and as NTFS
2.) Randomly my internet cuts out, this is partly because of my ISP (comcast) and their crappy wiring jobs.. however, my other PC (XP Home SP2) which runs through my PC on Windows ICS connects fine, while mine I go to any given site and get a 'Site Not Found' error in both Firefox and IE7.. if I reboot, it usually goes away..
3.) On occasion, i'll install new software, which will install correctly and Vista will give me the 'It appears that the software didn't install correctly' error.. it doesn't give it everytime, just sometimes..
My PC was a prebuilt, so the HDD has a recovery partition on it.. I have a recovery disc I made or I can use Anytime Upgrade to do a fresh install, however, I'm not sure if my OEM key will work with the fresh install, will it?
Deleting files isn't a problem for me since both of my HDD's are split down the middle, and I have backup copies of all of my software as well as I store all of my files/media on partitions separate from the one Vista resides on.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Issues;
1.) I turned my computer completely off last night, when I turned it on this morning it installed a driver for an already installed and formatted 160GB HDD.. it showed the drive as 136GB (it has 109 left, it's got a lot on it) and it showed the drive as unallocated space.. I rebooted the PC, the drive appears as 109GB left and as NTFS
2.) Randomly my internet cuts out, this is partly because of my ISP (comcast) and their crappy wiring jobs.. however, my other PC (XP Home SP2) which runs through my PC on Windows ICS connects fine, while mine I go to any given site and get a 'Site Not Found' error in both Firefox and IE7.. if I reboot, it usually goes away..
3.) On occasion, i'll install new software, which will install correctly and Vista will give me the 'It appears that the software didn't install correctly' error.. it doesn't give it everytime, just sometimes..
My PC was a prebuilt, so the HDD has a recovery partition on it.. I have a recovery disc I made or I can use Anytime Upgrade to do a fresh install, however, I'm not sure if my OEM key will work with the fresh install, will it?
Deleting files isn't a problem for me since both of my HDD's are split down the middle, and I have backup copies of all of my software as well as I store all of my files/media on partitions separate from the one Vista resides on.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
