This is one for all of you viewers who;ve had difficulty installing Windows Vista. Don;t feel poor. Even some Microsoft developers — who have the Vista team on premise — can;t manage to upgrade to Vista.Microsoft developer Andy Pennell wanted to install Vista at home. (Pennell is a developer on HDi, the interactivity layer for HD DVD.)He bought a copy of Vista Ultimate. And then all hell broke loose — as he blogged this week in a post entitled “Putting in Vista: My Personal Hell.” Trouble started for Pennell early, when he tried to get the media out of the new, curved Vista packaging:“I was seriously considering a trip to the garage and to smash the box open with a hammer, when I discovered another transparent sticker that was holding two parts together. With that gone, the box moved a few more millimeters, until I realised the thing opens sideways,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, and boom: Vista was opened. I;ve installed entire operating systems more quickly and with less stress than opening this box…”From there, things only got worse:“Short story: installing Vista for me was a catalog of problems, some mine and some not. … (Things) went downhill to include weekend-long unsuccessful installs,
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, bricking my PC,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, and exercising my Dell warranty to get a replacement motherboard, hard-drive and secondary hard-drive. And after all that, guess what: I still haven;t installed it.”Pennell;s conclusions:* “Vista cannot install to Dynamic discs (which is the default when you add a new drive to XP): switch them to Basic before attempting a Vista install* “Only update your BIOS if you have good warranty cover on the motherboard,
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, or are feeling lucky* “Unplug memory card readers before installing* “Dell;s warranty and support organization rock* “My particular hardware cannot install Vista, and no-one knows why.”Bring on Windows Seven,
Windows 7 Ultimate Key!