Does the Vista skin pack also give you the Aero look? I'm looking forward to W10, but I will really miss Aero. Aesthetics are important to me.

Oh no, I only have to install Vista if doing a new hard drive, or clean install. Because that's what came with the machine. The W7 version I bought is an upgrade, it won't install except over vista....

I bought a W7 upgrade disk for 120.00 several years ago. So when I install W7, I first have to install Vista, then the W7 over that. Although recently I did do a non-destructive reinstall of W7 as I...

I'm confused about multi-booting. Currently I have a rig with Vista on one drive, W7 on another, and yet another with W7 and Zorin. I have reserved W10 for both instances of W7. I started with Vista,...

I needed Microsoft.net Framework sooner rather than later! I needed to install Easy BCD on this drive, and sure enough it needs MNF to run. So I took your advice, Fafhrd, and installed 4.5. Installed...

Thanks for all that great info, Fafhrd. To update the situation:
I decided to reinstall Windows (as an "Upgrade" so as to preserve my files). This was successful. I really thought doing this would...

Update: I successfully installed Zorin on the Bad Drive, alongside Windows. It installed perfectly, and did not affect Windows. In the process, I was able to solve the boot problem I was having with...

OK, here are the results using CrystalDisk:

vista drive (Seagate): Good - temp=36
seven drive (WD): Caution - temp=38 - reallocated sectors count=184 (current and worst); threshold=140
seven...

Okay, I will do some disk analysis. there does appear to be something wrong with the boot drive, because this drive will only boot off of the Vista drive. A little more history: I did reimage this...

My thinking too, Mark. I tried to install the Get Windows app on the drive, but it was not in the updates selected by Win update. In fact, for awhile now, certain updates will not install on that...

Country, thanks for the reply. You bring up a good point about the drive maybe being bad. At one point, it was bad - I ran WD diagnostics and it failed. But then I did maintenance on it and it now is...

Hi, just joined forum. I've been on vista and seven forums awhile. I have a PC with three drives. One has Vista (my favorite OS - I'm one of those retro types); the other two have seven. (all home...