CLean install or upgrade?

[Guest]

What is best? Should I do a clean install or just upgrade? What will give me
the best performance?
Thanks,

RYan

 

[Tom Ziegmann]

I recommend a clean install by booting from the DVD. If you go that route
make sure you backup any important files you may need later.

 

[Todd]

What is best? Should I do a clean install or just upgrade? What will give me
the best performance?
Thanks,

RYan

I would compare it to any other upgrade, whether going from Win98 to Win2000
or from Win2000 to WinXP.

You end up with a poor installation.

First, the installer tries to put the new OS into the file structure of the
older OS, and second, there is a lot of old stuff that isn't used, but that
isn't cleaned up either.

You get a much cleaner installation, if you create a new partition, and
format it, or at least reformat an existing partition.

I havn't installed Vista yet, so I don't know if it gives you the option of
creating or installing on a FAT32 partition. Probably not since FAT32 is
not as secure as NTFS, but even if it does, don't do that either.

Even if it lets you format as FAT32, with the option of converting to NTFS
later, don't do that, because it won't install as well on FAT32, and some of
the problems don't go away when you convert to NTFS.

 

[Josh]

Clean install is your best chance for stability

 

[Jonah]

What is best? Should I do a clean install or just upgrade? What will give me
the best performance?
Thanks,

RYan

Ryan I hope you are thinking of doing a clean install on a test PC or
dual booting with XP. Vista is not ready to use as a full OS there is
little hardware support beyond what MS include and a lot of 3rd party
software may not work and there are several unfinished features only
partially working.

I certainly would not upgrade unless you are upgrading a spare non
critical XP machine.

I will not even dual boot Vista until the main release and will not
use it as a main OS on a critical machine for at least 12 months after
release.

Jonah