Zim Babwe said:
Are you a total moron? He has a legitimate question and you have to go
and say something stupid. OSX isn't the answer to everything.
Go play with yourself.
To answer your honest questions, Greg:
I'm sorry, my friend, but there is no way around the minimum requirements
for Vista. When Microsoft means "MINIMUM", they mean "enough to do the job
adequately, with a little extra for good measure", not "almost enough".
1) Microsoft says the Vista installer needs a minimum of 15GB *FREE* space
(that means *NO FILES* in that space). Obviously, if your C: partition is
only 13GB, with 3.5gb of that space taken up by XP, it's not 15GB *FREE*
space.
2) It IS possible to install Vista (or XP) on a secondary drive. In
fact,that is the best way to dual-boot different OSes. But it MUST be an
internal drive. NO external drives at all.
3) 18GB (if that is *FREE* space) is pushing your luck. I suggest a MINIMUM
of 40GB for a Vista installation. I really don't believe this is
unreasonable.
I really advise you to spend about $75 (or less), and purchase a newer 160
GB HD, then install Vista as the exclusive OS on it, and get rid of those
older drives (or keep them for extra data storage).
Vista has these Mac-Bois running scared, so they launch into these tirades
at the drop of a hat, with white spittle surrounding the sides of their
mouths.
Trouble installing Vista? WTF? I've never had trouble installing any
Microsoft OS, at any time. Even on one of his vaunted Macs. In fact, I
removed OS X completely from my Apple Intel PC, wiping the HD entirely, and
had absolutely no problems installing XP or Vista on it. I'm sure this
causes the current rabid Mac-Boi to grind his teeth till they are nothing
but nubs, and causes him to recoil in horror at so "evil" a thought as
wiping a Mac drive and installing Vista on it rather than OS X.
If ANYONE has trouble installing Vista, its not because it's hard to
install, because it's not. It's actually easy, even easier than XP was.
Here are ten reasons they might find it difficult:
1) Failing to educate themselves and prepare their computers beforehand.
1a) Failing to obtain or download the necessary Vista drivers for their
hardware beforehand.
2) Failing to educate themselves afterward.
3) Failing to have adequate *FREE* HD space (Microsoft says 15GB *FREE*
space to install, much of which will be returned after installation.) The
Vista installer needs this space to unpack the correct image.
4) Failing to have a newer motherboard/CPU combination.
5) Failing to have adequate memory (Microsoft says 512MB, but I believe 1 to
2 GB is more in line with Vista's true needs)
5a) Failing to have the correct memory. Matching sticks are much better
than mixed. Do NOT mix memory speeds. Doing this only causes ALL your
memory sticks to operate at the speed of the lowest-rated stick. XP and
Vista are both extremely sensitive to mixed/faulty/poor-quality memory:
Vista even more so than XP.
6) Failing to have a DirectX 9-compatible video card, with a minimum of
128MB on-card VRAM (for Aero)
7) Trying to install Vista on Grampa's early-90's Packard-Bell.
8) Trying to install Vista using a CD drive rather than a DVD drive
8a) Not even OWNING a DVD drive: (8) and (8a) are both GUARANTEED to foil
your installation from the get-go.
9) A generalized fear of technology
10) Last but not least, just plain stupidity. There is only one cure for
stupidity: EDUCATION, EDUCATION, and MORE EDUCATION.
I added (7) and (8) to inject a little humour into the subject. Everyone
knows by now that Vista is distributed on a DVD rather than a CD, as XP was.
One would have to be very uninformed (or uncaring) to not know this.
