M1330 Vista Home to Vista Business Problems

My M1330 just arrived. I ordered it w/ Vista Home Premium because I already own Vista Business and thought I'd save a few bucks and just upgrade but I'm having some problems.

During installation I was not given the option to upgrade but only clean install moving the old install to Windows.old. Upon several reboots during install which is normal, now I get a quick blue screen of death and a immediate reboot.

Does anyone have any advise on upgrading or installing new OS on a new Dell? There are also a few partitions on the drive that could be addressed at this time. Probably a recovery partition and a media partition if my memory serves me.

 

Why didn't you enjoy your m1330 for a while instead of getting yourself in such damn problems ?:laugh:

 

I have the same problem with Vista Enterprise 32bit. I tried twice, same problem. I just gave up, and did a clean installation of Home Premium.

Sean

 

I don't think OEM versions allow anytime upgrades... but I'm not sure about this since I've never done this before.

 

I did not do the upgrade option. Instead I reformatted the whole hard drive and tried clean-installing of Vista Enterprise. I did same thing with my e1505 with no problem. But with M1330, I tried twice and had the same problem happening at the first time start of window (blue screen then restarting). I also tried to start windows into safe mode with no success.

Sean

 

Can anyone verify this cause I ordered mine with Buisness and was planing on doing to upgrade to Ultimate

 

Called tech support for XPS today. They're pretty easy to get a hold of.

Changing the OS seems like a much greater pain then I originally thought. Upgrade was not available so clean install was the other option. This left me with some conflicts in the device manager that tech support could not get resolved. They were not able to help restore the Home Premium but we tried. They are sending me a restore DVD. I'm new to Dells so not terribly familiar with their install techniques or underlying utilities. Typically I just build my own desktops.

Everything so far about the 1330 is pretty nice except I wish it had greater resolution (but I knew this going in). With the 9cell it is not that light compared to some other ultra portables out there.

I'm considering changing the OS on my 2nd 1330 I ordered back in June and hopefully getting expedited build or canceling that order and shopping for a new ASUS, Sony or MBP.

I would love to stay small and get 1440x???? resolution. The only one I've seen so far was a Fujitsu. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks

 

Of course you cannot upgrade from home premium to business... only to ultimate

 

Not sure if I can answer your question but maybe you can answer mine. When upgrading, installing or reinstalling any form of Vista onto a machine, does it ask for that particular machine's ID #, service tag, etc. In other words, if I have a copy of Vista Ultimate with one machine and want to install it on another, will the process "know" I've already done it on the previous machine or am I just looking for a challenge that doesn't really exist?

 

Of course...

 

That is probably the easiest way to go. Pay the $159.

 

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/3af7e05f-4d2a-4af7-a168-9242f9093bb81033.mspx

first dropdown

You need a clean install or you need to go to ultimate

 

You can try this...
In vista home premium.
1) Go to system properties
2) there is a link of vista any time upgrade top of property window.
3) click on it
it will advice you further...



Enjoying...using M1330
Duo 2.0 GHz.
160 GB,
2 GB,
I love it........

 

Can I get a mod to please PM me, this really needs to be PINNED because I post this same exact thing (written by me) at least once a day here...

That problem is because the OS can't see the drive, but it does because you installed it...right? Typically, you assign RAID drivers and stuff so you can install on that drive because it doesn't see it...but this gets confusing, because it actually sees it. When it asks you where to install, you'll see an option to load drivers - you want to go to support.dell.com and download the Intel Matrix Storage Manager and load the drivers in there prior to installing. The problem is you need a special AHCI driver, and not the generic Microsoft one. Yes, this is really frustrating and I was the first person to post about this in the forums - I called Dell and they had no idea what I was talking about, I had to figure all of this out on my own...

If you don't know how to do this, or anything like that...and don't mind taking a *small* performance increase for ease just go into your BIOS and see the HDD operation mode from AHCI to ATA and then you can install Vista using ANY disk!

The direct download link for Intel Matrix Storage Driver is here:

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=41&fileid=205611

Oh, and this applies to the 1420, 1520, 1720, m1330, and I assume the m1730 as well