Windows 10: Websites and some installers recognise my system as vista but I am on 10.

Hello,I am on windows 10 21h2 and was getting ready for a webinar to learn excel. When it tested my system it said I am on vista. I am on windows 10. Here is a picture showing I am on 10Any help would be great.

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Clean Install Workaround for Vista

You may remember this news story on techPowerUp! a couple of days ago relating to the lack of clean installs when using the Upgrade Editions of Vista, which required an old OS to be installed. However, Paul Thurrott has managed to find a workaround for this issue, which ironically lets users do a clean install Vista without any previous version of Windows, albeit a little tedious. Here are the steps:

• Boot from the Windows Vista Upgrade DVD as normal
• When prompted for a product code, leave this blank
• Select the version of Vista you have purchased and let Vista install
• When you boot to your desktop for the first time, run the Vista setup from Windows
• This time enter your product key
• When asked whether you want to do an Upgrade of Custom install, select custom and choose a clean install
• Windows will now install for a second time and you should be able to activate it

Remember, these steps are only advised for use in order to achieve a clean install of Vista, it is only legal to use the upgrade editions if you have previously purchased the appropriate version of Windows.

Source: DailyTech

 

Vista Beta 2 Installed

Well first I defragged the drive, then go into partition magic and select "create a new partition" and make sure it is "after c:"

Then click the rest of the way through the menus, and in the lower left there is a list of pending activites and click "apply" and you will have to restart and before windows boots partition magic does its thing.

 

New SATA drives recognised by BIOS but not detected by Vista

Right, I managed to get them to show up! Yay! However, there is still a major problem. Vista does not recognise them as hard drives.

In Device Manager, they are under "Other Devices" and both are listed as "MAXTOR S TM3250310AS SCSI Disk Device". I can't install any drivers for them and they do not show up in the Disk Management panel still.