HeyJim - 5:41 pm on Nov 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

Jtara. Thanks for the input.

I only have a couple of programs installed on Vista and I can re-install them on the XP machine. I'm good with that.

The files on the Vista drive don't seem like they would be a problem. Either I copy them on to a usb drive then to the XP drive or (I may have mentioned?) just run the Vista drive as a slave and access the files directly off of that. No programs can run off the Vista drive is not a problem.

Until Vista's first Service Pack (or whatever they're going to call it) comes out I just want nothing to do with Vista.

So, your thoughts are that the XP could be transplanted to the Vista machine and run fine? What are you basing that opinion on and I hope you don't mind me asking.

I was under the impression that Microsoft won't let me do it (built in fail safes) and just being in a different motherboard environment would do me in as well.

Since I last posted Vista game me error messages listed above plus "user profile service" whatever. Another reboot and things should be okay for a while.

Now I'm thinking it may be best for me to buy a new harddrive, I don't think I can do two XP Pro installs on two different machines so I'll have to buy another copy of XP and install it on my new (comparatively) super machine. A few more hundred dollars but at least I should have a normal functioning machine instead of the Vista garbage.

(What makes this especially painful is that I thought I had learned years ago to never go with any v.1.0. But, the machine seemed to be such a good deal.) Dang.

[edited by: HeyJim at 5:42 pm (utc) on Nov. 11, 2007]