Advice needed before I install VistaRC1

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Jack

My computer's current topography is:
drive c: WindowsXP Pro FAT32 (default boot)
drive d: Windows98SE FAT32

How should I install Vista without loosing current topography?
Your thoughts appreciated,
Jack
 
Jack,

Are you going to upgrade Windows XP? Delete Windows98?
Add another hard drive?

I would recommend very much using Vista with NTFS so that you can get OOTB
support for larger disks, you can use some of the new and enhanced security
features in Vista and the fact that NTFS is a lot more robust with handling
disk errors.

Your best bet if you don't want to impact your other OS installations is to
get another hard drive and install Vista on it.


Bill F.
 
Bill Frisbee said:
Jack,

Are you going to upgrade Windows XP? Delete Windows98?
Add another hard drive?

I would recommend very much using Vista with NTFS so that you can get OOTB
support for larger disks, you can use some of the new and enhanced
security features in Vista and the fact that NTFS is a lot more robust
with handling disk errors.

Your best bet if you don't want to impact your other OS installations is
to get another hard drive and install Vista on it.


Bill F.
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AFAIK, Vista will not install on a partition that is not NTFS.
 
Thank you all.
For some reason I do not like NTSF. I know all advantages of using it but
that does not convince me to use it.
NTSF does not allow user to access harddrive (files) at the command prompt
at boot up time.
Besides I need all OS on my computer. I am software programmer and I need to
test my code in different environments.
So I need to keep and WinXP and Win98SE.
My existing c:\ and d:\ drives are just partitions.
I think to add the second drive and install Vista on it.
Jack
 
The Vista DVDs I have will not give you the
option of installing Vista on a FAT or FAT32
partition. The table you refer to only states
that you can read FAT & FAT32 from a Vista
installation. It doesn't say you can install
Vista to a FAT or FAT32 partition.
 
Theo,

You can upgrade an existing version of Windows on FAT32 to Vista, per the
link listed below.


Bill F.
 
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