NamelessPlayer on 21/5/2008 at 17:47
For those of you who don't know, Ink is a component of Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and all Windows Vista editions besides Home Basic that several tablet-oriented apps rely on.
The funny thing is, Ink used to work just fine on my system when I had Vista freshly installed. Now that I have this nice Wacom Graphire4 tablet, this problem slams me in the face out of the blue, and it's quite annoying. (The tablet works fine-it's the tablet-oriented apps dependent on Ink that don't.)
Is there any solution out there that doesn't involve reinstalling Windows? (And, if push comes to shove and I do have to reinstall Windows, can I do it without formatting my Vista partition? I've got a bunch of data that I don't want to lose, but I don't have a storage medium large enough to offload it all to...)
gunsmoke on 21/5/2008 at 19:16
It is HIGHLY recommended that if you re-install Windows (whatever the version) that you reformat the partition. I have never had a lasting/successful 'repair install'.
NamelessPlayer on 23/5/2008 at 17:31
I eventually just said "to hell with it" and backed up my most important data to a 60 GB partition on the front of my drive that was there for an XP install that started to act up. After formatting that partition and moving the data there, I formatted the Vista partition and did a fresh install, this time with a vLite SP1-slipstreamed disc(the original disc was pre-SP1), let the OS update, installed all necessary drivers, and started moving my saved data back to the main partition.
That solved the problem(and probably countless others that I hadn't run into yet), and Vista seems to be much smoother now, as usual. However, I've got a lot of reinstalling to do to get back to where I was.
(I also noticed too late that I forgot to uninstall Bioshock before the format, thus I've lost an activation. Oh well, I should have a few more...)
