Installing vista from 5 Cd's

hi
i tried to install vista on iMac the vista i have is 5 Cd's but in installation process i cant change the Cd's it dont eject, even with f12 or key next to it(the eject key) i called support they said i can install vista just from dvd not cd is that true ?

i have a bigger problem, after i use bootcamp and made windows partition and the windows etup failed cuz the vista was on cd i restarted pressed alt and chosed macintosh and the system worked fine, then i used bootcamp again to remove the windows partition, every thing went ok, i came next day and ran the iMac to get a message "No Bootable device or some thing like that" so what happened ?
i inserted the leopard DVD that i got with the iMac and restarted i got the same messahe it didnt boot from dvd so what to do to restore my system ?

Similar Messages

Howto install Vista from servicepartition without formatting the HD

Hello, when my notebook was delivered I removed the original Vista-installation and installed openSuse. Now I need to use a Windows OS so I prepared my system by creating a fat32-partition in order to fire-up the Lenovo Service Button and simply install Vista right to that partition. Obviously this option doesnt exist - the only way to recover Vista is to completely format the harddrive. I dont want that - I'm gonna stick with Linux as my working OS and just wanna use the Vista OS for a single purpose. So? How can I reinstall the Vista OS I paid for in a place on my laptop I want it to be? Thanks for advice.

create a dual boot sytem and also remember "Vista" is "NTFS" sytem why not go the other way,, reload or re factory install 'Vista" then create a virtual machine and use easy partion in Disk Manager,, create "linux partition" as a dual boot and then create an icon on task bar and switch back and forth,, both "systems" will boot up and a quick 'click" you are vista, and quick click you are Linux I set up a triple boot this way but found it worked best with 'Vista 'as primary and linux, solaris etc secondary systems.. just keep an eye on your allocations or size Quotas on each partition, for the secondary systems,, and also "MAKE SURE IN CONTROL PANEL IN VISTA THAT "VIRTUAL MEMORY" AND PAGING FILE IS MANAGED BY SYTEM .........NOT A MANUAL SETTING.............. other wise your paging file will go out of control and use up all physical ram and hello blue screen..
check MS for a free multi boot configurer,, all the 'paid ' for sub software are nothing but problems in a disc

Installing vista 64 on a MacBook Pro (early 2008)

I hope this will save someone some time.
Leopard is the world’s most advanced operating system.
So advanced, it even lets you run Windows if there’s a PC
application you need to use. Just get a copy of Windows
and start up Boot Camp, now included with Leopard. Setup
is simple and straightforward — just as you’d expect with a
Mac.
Marketing hype.
Set up is nowhere as simple as with a DIY intel motherboard, a Dell or HP, Asus ...
If you follow the "instructions" trying to get vista64 up on a macbook pro you'll spend literally hours and end up with a half working system. I have a retail copy of Leopard 10.5, installing the drivers from that resulted in non functional:
802.11
Ethernet
Audio
No Graphics acceleration
No iSight
If you are installing vista on a modern computer (a core 2 duo processor and better) then you really want to install vista 64, it runs faster and it addresses more ram. I'm sure the situation for vista32 is better, I was just astounded at the virtual lack of support for 64 bit.
The boot camp fiasco was install vista, install the drivers from the leopard disk and try to install the 2.1 boot camp update. Installing vista from the os x boot camp (ie put the vista media in the drive, run boot camp and in theory Windows installs) resulted in a freeze on restart, a black screen with a frozen underbar cursor.
So I just booted from the vista dvd (64 bit media with sp1) worked like a charm. To do this hold the option key down as the machine is restarting, and choose the vista dvd as the boot disk in the boot picker. That worked nicely. Another point is that boot camp will make a partition for you, but it will be a DOS FAT-32 partition. This makes a certain amount of sense since it allows both Vista and OS X to read and write the windows partition, however vista will probably be happier with an ntfs partition, and in the vista installer you can select this option and reformat the partition.
Vista installed with no hitches (though it will restart a few times, it might be worth setting the default boot volume to the vestigial vista install using the OS X sys prefs after the first restart to avoid needing to stand over the install to hit the option key. Once vista was up I made the next boot camp discovery.
The BC 2.1 update will not run on my install. This seems like a very common thing for the 64 bit version. The web has speculation that you need to install the Mac Pro drivers on the MacBook and mostly the 2.1 64 nit BC update is reported to install. I don't really want to deal with bit torrent, and that seems to fly in the face of Apple's interests so it's odd the drivers are just not on Apples site in seperate install packages for each device.
It's possible I need a newer retail leopard, but even so a "real" hardware company would provide individual driver installers on their site. After futzing around every which way with boot camp trying to get net and other things working, I had a realization.
Forget boot camp.
It's probably a waste of time.
The four things I care about are net (wired and 802.11, display drivers, audio).
A troll around the net dug up Marvell Yukon drivers for Vista64 (Marvell's site), Broadcom 43xx drivers (in an asus package from a random site), Realtek ALC885 drivers (from realtek's site). Video I've not got to yet, I booted into OS X to look at "about this mac" to see what kind of hardware is in this puppy. And while I was here I thought I'd write this up in case it saves anyone else some pain.
You'll need to do a manual install of the realtek and broadcom drivers, the marvel installer did the right thing. To do that, bring up the start menu (bottom LH corner), find computer on the right hand side of this. Right click that and choose "Manage". Click devices and then navigate to the device for which you want to reinstall the drivers, double click to get the properties dialog, hit the drivers tab and click the reinstall button, manually install the drivers, navigating to the folder you unzipped the driver files to.
I now have networking and sound, display is up next. I deinstalled Apple's software update stuff and boot camp. Vista 64 works quite well once you get the non apple supplied drivers on there.
-- Nick

Poetsave wrote:
I just bought my first Mac, Macbook Pro 15in 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM, 320GB Serial ATA; 5400 rpm.
I installed XP of a disk I had then used a Vista upgrade disk i had to install Vista. I noticed quickly that it was a 32bit version since it only recognized 3gb ram. I have been trolling the forums here and still have yet to get a straight answer on how to install vista 64 and have it actually work. So when what you are saying is I need a Mac Pro disk? Not the disk that came with my Macbook Pro to install all the drivers I need?
James
So it really depends. If you have an "early 2008" MBP as follows:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP41.00C1.B00
SMC Version: 1.27f1
Serial Number: xxxxxxxxxxx
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
Then the disk from an equivalent Mac Pro (needs to be of similar vintage) may help you. But if you have once of the newer models ("late 2008") this has an nVidia chipset in it and the drivers for that may not be on the Mac Pro.
You'll need 64bit drivers for the nVidia chipset for this to work.
A side note is that the EFI implementation on the "Early 2008" MPB might well be 32 bit, so it's debatable if you get the full advantage of 64bit Vista in terms of performance. It worked for me, but YMMV. In any case when Windows 7 ships, my Macs will mostly be in "Legacy" mode.
-- Nick

Satellite Pro A200 - Is there any way I can re-install Vista?

Hi,
I bought an A200 a couple of years ago pre-installed with Vista Home Premium.
Recently I got a virus and had to re-install windows which I tried unsuccessfully from the recovery disks I had made from the Toshiba recovery programme. After several attempts I decided to install Ubuntu 9.1 instead, which I have been happy with, however certain features, such as no sound through HDMI, have not worked so I would like to re-install Vista.
I believe the install files for the pre-installed Vista are on a partition somewhere on my A200.
Is there any way I can re-install Vista?
Thanks

Hi Sched7,
There is no recovery partition on Toshiba notebooks. Only a folder with an image is stored on the second partition but as MisterX wrote, if this would be available its too late now since you installed Ubuntu
In your case I would try the recovery disk again. I noticed also a problem with the disk after I had a virus. I had to wipe the whole HDD first by using Microsoft disk. After this I tried the recovery disk again on a clean HDD and it successful!!!
In worst case you have to install Vista from a Microsoft disk. You can download all drivers and tools on the Toshiba website.

How can I unistall Vista from Satellite L300-11Q and install Windows XP

Hello!
Help please: How can I unistall Windows Vista from my notebook and install Windows XP?
Should I do something with discs and BIOS before it, or I can just format disc C and then install XP from CD-disc?
How can I make a recovery disc before uninstalling Vista?
Thank you very much!

Greetings,
I had such a hard time finding exact information on downgrading Vista to XP recently, I'm posting this on several different threads in hopes I can save others some time and effort; sorry for cross-posting.
When installing XP over Vista, instead of worrying over getting Intel Matrix Storage, streamlining a CD with it and SPII, blah, blah, blah, why not just go into BIOS at startup and switch the SATA setting under Advanced Disk Management from (whatever the default is) to "Compliant"? This allows the XP install to see the drive as an IDE, (actually ATA), and POOF! Your problems are solved with a LOT less hassle. (The XP install disk DOES have to have Service Pack II on it.)
I just did this over the past weekend, and it worked great. (Actually I didn't have much of a choice, as the processor on my Toshiba is an AMD, not Intel, so all the downloading and configuring CD's with matrx storage in the world wouldn't have done me a bit of good; the AMD processor "chipset" is contained within the graphics driver setup.)
Save yourselves a lot of time and headaches and forget the whole matrix storage thing. As far as I can tell it would also work with an Intel processor, but since you can "turn SATA off", IMHO it's a huge waste of time mucking around with the matrix storage. If you want full SATA configuration after all's said and done, you can always go back in and turn the BIOS switch back to SATA after you have XP up and running and have just used the executable to install the matrix drivers.
Cheers,
Kutsavi

I had to wipe VISTA from my machine, and now I want to install it again

I had to wipe VISTA from my machine, and now I want to install it again, but I Lenovo never gave me a CD for it. I assumed
I need to download it and then re-install visa?
Is that what I have to do?
Where can I get the download fot it

you may have tinkered with the partitions,get the recovery cd set.if you still want to use ubuntu try using the live version or use the wubi installer,it installs in a windows partition as a program(you can safely delete it later from add or remove programs) in this way you can use both of them at your choice..
Cheers and regards,
• » νιנαｿѕαяα∂нι ѕαмανє∂αм ™ « •
●๋•کáŕádhí'ک díáŕý ツ
I am a volunteer here. I don't work for Lenovo

Trouble installing Vista 64 from USB DVD

I am trying to install Vista64 from external DVD thru USB. It boots from the DVD and starts the install process, but after I click on 'Install Now', it puts a screen that says I need a driver for my external DVD before it can proceed. Where do I get this?
Thanks, I have an X61s.

It is an issue iwth our older EFI 1.x (or EFI32) and Vista SP1 64-bit that needs UEFI 2.x (EFI64).
Sort of the same issue as the Nvidia 8800GT had to come out in two flavors.
I have Windows already installed, older pre-SP1, and from there I can install SP1 DVD.
At this point, I much prefer Windows 7 over Vista x64 SP1 or SP2(beta). Just runs better. Last day tomorrow maybe to download.

How to install Vista using product key from bottom of Satellite P200?

Hello all,
I recently had to replace my HDD as my P200 had a fatal error, corrupting all data on the old HDD. I have no recovery discs at all, (None were supplied), and wondered how i am supposed to re-install Vista using my product key from the bottom of the laptop? Can anybody give any kind of assistance please?
As i have been reading other related threads i get the impression that i need to approach Toshiba and buy a recovery CD, at my expense. Is this correct?
Thanks
Lee

Hi
As far as I know the serial key which is placed at the bottom of the unit would not work with other Vista versions! the key belongs to the OEM Vista version preinstalled by Toshiba.
As mentioned by Jeka, you will need to order an recovery disk or will need to use an clean Vista CD with an own serial key purchased previously.
Greets

Installing iTunes in Vista from Backup?

I installed Vista and what I did is backup My Music folder that I had in XP over on my other hard drive. I moved the music I had over to the music folder in Vista before I installed iTunes and when iTunes installed all the songs in the libary where doubled or even tripled for each song. What would cause this to happen. Should I have not moved the music from my backup drive first? Thanks.

Should I have not moved the music from my backup drive first?
I have the same setup as you do, and when I copied my music from my XP hard drive, I just put it on my desktop (in vista). Then I installed itunes and just told it to add the files from my desktop (make sure you have the "keep my music organized" box checked0. When it's all done, you can just delete the music folder on your desktop.
I don't quite understand your second post. Are you telling itunes on vista to look at your other folder on XP? If so, don't do that, do what I said above.

Installing Vista using Parallels from a Toshiba Recovery Disk

I'm trying to use my copy of Vista from an older, now defunct Toshiba laptop. The recovery disks which include the operating system are not properly installing Vista within Parallels. Is there a way to extract the operating system from the recovery disks for use in Parallels?

No, those discs are proprietary to Toshiba hardware and will not work properly.

Tecra M7 DVD: CD/DVD RAM drive does not work since installing Vista

I did a clean installation on my Vista Ready new M7. It had XP tablet to begin with and the DVD drive worked fine. Indeed I used it to install Vista (Home Premium).
Now it does not work at all. It spins but does not read. Device Manager tells me device cannot start. Tried to update driver and it told me that it has the most uptodate driver.
Downloaded all the drivers from Tosh download centre for Vista upgrade of M7 (which got bluetooth, screen rotation etc to work fine). But none of the downloads seemed to be a driver for the DVD-Ram drive. Can not find a driver anywhere else (including Panasonic site).
DVD drive is Mat****a DVD-RAM UJ-841s
Any suggestions?

Hi
On the Toshiba driver page you can find the DLA for Tecra m7.
Did you try to install the XP DVD-RAM driver from the Toshiba page on the Vista OS?
Maybe it will works
But listen the CD/DVD drive uses the common Microsoft drivers which are included into Vista or XP.
Therefore an additional driver should be not needed!
One additional proposal;
Remove the CD/DVD drive from the device manager and reboot the notebook.
After new reboot the OS should install the drive again and should renew the software.
Other hint:
- Start the registry
- Choose the registry key;
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
- In the right pane, right-click UpperFilters and LowerFilters then click Delete.
- and restart the notebook

Error message while installing Vista

I have got a windows vista installation disk now, I am trying to install it but when I am trying to install it, I have a message which says that I need to delete these items:
o The Sims 2
o Intel PROSet/Wireless
o TOSHIBA Direct Disc Writer Format Utility
o TOSHIBA Disc Creator
o TOSHIBA PC Diagnostic Tool
o TOSHIBA SD Memory Card Format
o TOSHIBA Utilities
o TOSHIBA Virtual Sound
o TOSHIBA Zooming Utility
o Alps Touch Pad Utility
o Easy Capture
o Sun Java Scheduler
o Windows Messenger 5.1
o TOSHIBA Hardware Setup Utility
o TOSHIBA Power Saver
o TOSHIBA Hotkey Utility
Now, I don not care about deleting programs like the sims 2 but the Toshiba files seem really important and I am worried that if I delete these then it could really effect my laptop please can someone direct me on if I should delete these, and if I should go ahead with the installation of vista
reply please

Hi buddy,
I can tell you why Vista says these programs had to be deleted. Because you have to download the "Vista-versions" including all "Vista-drivers" from the Toshiba website.
So, if you want to install everything clearly and if you want a clear and "sober" system, then I suggest you the following things:
1.) Download all toshiba drivers and softwaretools from these adresses:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp
http://209.167.114.38/support/Download/ln_byModel.asp
and burn it to a DVD to have them available ALL the time and independently from anything.
2.) Backup your important data to DVD/ext.HDD/?foobla? and watch out for Vista versions of your in XP installed applications.
3.) Boot the Vista-DVD and when you can choose between updating and clear full install with formatting the HDD, rather choose the option, where you
can format and do this. Clear your whole HDD from that XP (YEAH! :P) and install Vista on it.
4.) After Vista was installed (hopefully successful) take the DVD with all drivers and software youve downloaded and install them.
5.) Hope everything went fine. You should now have a working Vista with "Vista-drivers" and "Vista-software".
I think this should help you. If not, then I had a nice time writing this. ;)
Greets

Trying to install vista 64 on a separate internal drive with boot camp

running into a wall here,
I'm able to install vista x64 when I divide an internal OS X drive that works fine, but I want to load Vista on it's own entire internal disk (bay 4). Bays 1,2, and 3 I use for OS X they are all 1TB drives. When I go through the boot camp assistant and divide a disk 50/50 between OSX and Windows and then boot to the vista install disk, the vista setup screen shows a PARTITION as "disk x partition x BOOT CAMP" and it works to select that partition, format and load windows... No problem. However when you choose the option in Boot Camp to erase an entire extra disk (in my case bay 4) and create a single partition for Windows and then boot to the Vista install disk the disk that was erased of the mac formatting, it doesn't show up with "BOOT CAMP" in the name inside the Vista setup screen, nor will it let you install vista to it, even if you pick the right one and format it inside Vista setup.
I've tried removing all internal disks except the one I want to load vista on and booting directly to the vista set up disc, and formatting with windows command line diskpart inside setup too, unsuccessfully. It simply keeps giving me messages that windows cannot be installed on the volume... I changed it from a GPU type disc using the "clean" command in diskpart but it still won't work! Man!!!
How can I get vista loaded on a separate disk on my mac, boot camp or not? It seems silly that a disk must have an OS X partiton on it before windows will load on it... Is there a way to load Vista x64 on it's own dedicated internal disk? Gratitude for any real help, I'm positive I'm not the first guy to want to load vista on it's own disk LOL!

So I figured this out myself, there was some kind of glitch in boot camp, i bypassed it and formatted the disk with the os x disk utility as a fat 32. pulled all the other drives out, and booted to vista setup. it formatted the disk to NTFS and lets me install vista 64 yahhhooooooooooooo!!!!!

'Windows cannot install required files' error while installing Vista SP1

I'm installing Vista Client SP1 on my Macbook pro and getting the following error:
Windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation.
Almost exactly as described in this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930984/ except my error code is 0x80070017. I'm double-checked CRC on my dvd to ensure it's not corrupt. Also I've previously successfully installed Vista SP1 from the SAME DVD on a different Mac Leopard (desktop)
Any ideas? This is a new Macbook pro, just got it yesterday. Could be DVD drive issue?
Thanks!

Did you get far enough to delete the FAT partition BootCamp created, so you could create a new NTFS one?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933925
or this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1464025&tstart=0

How to dual install Vista and Windows 7?

Hi,
I have a question about setting up windows 7. But Im trying a slightly different approach. I have a drive on my Mac Pro that has Windows Vista on it. But I would like to put Windows 7 on it too. I dont know if i have to partition the drive to do this or can i just install it along side Vista? Thing is before i installed Vista I used disk utilities to partition the drive to 2 equal partitions but when I went on it to put Vista on it somehow Vista took the whole drive. So i have Vista on there and all set up but now I'd like to add Windows 7 without destroying Vista...How can I do that? Do i have to use the Mac OS and partition it and install or is this something I should do from the Vista side?

None. You have everything you need.
Windows 7 DVD
Vista
And if you want another Paragon CampTune for resizing partitions.
For backup, Vista, no need to buy Paragon or Acronis. WinClone is free and handy too.
Trouble with Macs, or any computer, there are always different ways to get to same place.
Backup, and then try, that is all anyone can do. I had Vista SP1 for work, Vista SP2 beta for testing, and Windows 7 beta to give it a shot, and I like W7 better.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1866970&tstart=0

Installing vista from 5 Cd's

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for