- Feb 17, 2013
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I was recently given my mothers old PC after she replaced it with a nice shiny new tablet pc. It is a Philips Freevents MT3900 dual core 2Gb Ram with 2x250Gb HDD as RAID 0, and came with a genuine and fully legal version of Vista Ultimate installed.
For my birthday she and my wife chipped in together to buy me a new motherboard bundle; an Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 with a quad core AMD Bulldozer FX4100 and two sticks of Patriot DDR3 4Gb Ram. I installed this along with the 250Gb hard rive from my old pc. All HDD are the same capacity and I intended to set them up as a RAID 0 array with 750Gb capacity. The DVD drive in the pc was an IDE one, and so my new motherboard would not attach. But more on that later.
With everything plugged in and looking good, I powered up the new pc. To my unexpected horror the pc would not boot up into the OS on the hard rives. Not knowing any better I thought that the BIOS would need to be told about the RAID 0 that two of the drives were originally set up with. Long story short I ended up deleting the MBR of all drives, and then ended up wiping both drives clean.
My intention had been to re download a version of windows Vista Ultimate 64bit and activate using the key on the certificate of authenticity sticker. But I needed an OS to do this. So I have been round the houses completely with using Ubuntu 12.10 on a USB and also installing to the hard rive, (Ubuntu apparently doesn't like RAID), trying to get a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate on a bootable USB.
I did actually manage to do this but kept getting the same error message during the install process as the files were being decompressed: files missing or corrupt, set up cannot continue. I attempted installing other versions of windows, 7 and 8, from DVD, with the same error. Reading up on this both in these forums and elsewhere, it seems its a well known error and nobody really knows for sure what the solution is.
After a hell of a lot of facffng around with Partition Wizard, Ubuntu, Memtest86+, USB unplugging, IDE versus SATA HDD set ups, swapping ram in and out, and one very angry wife later, I eventually got a version of windows 7 to complete the install. So now, for 30 days at least, I have a working machine. But I want a copy of Legal Vista Ultimate like I used to have.
Can anyone help?
For my birthday she and my wife chipped in together to buy me a new motherboard bundle; an Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 with a quad core AMD Bulldozer FX4100 and two sticks of Patriot DDR3 4Gb Ram. I installed this along with the 250Gb hard rive from my old pc. All HDD are the same capacity and I intended to set them up as a RAID 0 array with 750Gb capacity. The DVD drive in the pc was an IDE one, and so my new motherboard would not attach. But more on that later.
With everything plugged in and looking good, I powered up the new pc. To my unexpected horror the pc would not boot up into the OS on the hard rives. Not knowing any better I thought that the BIOS would need to be told about the RAID 0 that two of the drives were originally set up with. Long story short I ended up deleting the MBR of all drives, and then ended up wiping both drives clean.
My intention had been to re download a version of windows Vista Ultimate 64bit and activate using the key on the certificate of authenticity sticker. But I needed an OS to do this. So I have been round the houses completely with using Ubuntu 12.10 on a USB and also installing to the hard rive, (Ubuntu apparently doesn't like RAID), trying to get a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate on a bootable USB.
I did actually manage to do this but kept getting the same error message during the install process as the files were being decompressed: files missing or corrupt, set up cannot continue. I attempted installing other versions of windows, 7 and 8, from DVD, with the same error. Reading up on this both in these forums and elsewhere, it seems its a well known error and nobody really knows for sure what the solution is.
After a hell of a lot of facffng around with Partition Wizard, Ubuntu, Memtest86+, USB unplugging, IDE versus SATA HDD set ups, swapping ram in and out, and one very angry wife later, I eventually got a version of windows 7 to complete the install. So now, for 30 days at least, I have a working machine. But I want a copy of Legal Vista Ultimate like I used to have.
Can anyone help?
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