SDH,
My experiences with Windows 7 Ultimate have been quite different. In 2011, I found a very good price on a set of three unused copies of Ultimate and installed them on: an HP Elite m9426f (Q6600), a 2004 Dell Dimension 8400 (P4 630) and later in that year on a Dell Precision T5400 ( 2X X5460) which like the subject system of this thread, used Vista Business new. All of these installed on a reformatted drive without any problems and all three are still running on those installations, including AutoCad, Adobe CS. The HP m9426f is the dedicated sound recording / editing system and has been 100% reliable over 100's of hours of long, continuous use.
Regarding the current situation with Rhothgar, as that Win 7 Ultimate installation was working at first, what is your opinion that the problem is a corruption of the system reserved partition- possibly the Vista 100MB partition being full, outdated BIOS, or incorrect boot sequence?
Cheers,
BambiBoomZ
