Windows 7 conflicts with Vista

Yes; thank you I thought as much. I'm going to start another thread to ask y'all some questions on another subject. I didn't mean to get into the middle of this one I was just trying to be helpful.
















Later Ted

ok here's mine.....

x64 Vista


x64 W7


:)SK

Mine is an OEM version.

I don't know how relevant it is, but the drive I originally installed the Beta on was a 'primary' partition and not a 'system' partition. My old Vista drive was a 'system' partition and so was my 'Linux' drive which had it's own bootsector. I couldn't actually make my 7 drive bootable by itself without having one or the other 'system' drives connected. According to the 7 installation set up screen anyway.

But there has to be some setting in the boot records that is being tricked into de-activation.

This time I was clever (new system, new HDD) I installed the 7 beta first and then Vista. No activation problems

ok it looks like im gonna have to reinstall W7
i decided to update it & then i rebooted ...WHY did i bother it was running perfectly now all i get is a black screen at the desktop, windows IS loaded but i cant see anything except my cursor & the watermark..??, i can pull up the task manager with no problems, it just seems like the desktop switched off...

i cant do anything in safe mode either, b/c there is no desktop there either

don't suppose anyone has any ideas before i have to reinstall..

:)SK

I did enable it, do you think that's the cause...???