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John Jay Smith

Before some people come smirking that these drives are small.. I have to say
that
this is only a test machine. So here is my question:

If I use 2 small drives as dynamic drives....
one is 15 gb and the other is 4 gb so that these 2 are seen as one volume,

will I be able to do an upgrade?

I am asking this because I had RC1 installed on the 15 gb one and it told me
it didnt have
enough space for the upgrade....

so I thought that adding the other 4 gb one would give it enough space to do
an upgrade...

am I right or does upgrade need the first drive to be big?

thanks
 
No. You might be able to do a Custom Installation but the Upgrade requires
additional space to temporarily park a lot of files while it clears an area
to install the new Vista image. It frees the additional area after
reinstallation of the old apps, but it does take more space during setup.
 
Your answer was not clear...

you are saying that with 19 gb total = 15 +4 gb combined in one dynamic
volume cannot
do an upgrade of vista?

It will have more than 10 gb free...

(again my question is more technical... I am asking if vista continues to
see the disks as dynamic and as one volume while it is going on with the
upgrade)
 
John said:
Before some people come smirking that these drives are small.. I have
to say that
this is only a test machine. So here is my question:

If I use 2 small drives as dynamic drives....
one is 15 gb and the other is 4 gb so that these 2 are seen as one
volume,
will I be able to do an upgrade?

I am asking this because I had RC1 installed on the 15 gb one and it
told me it didnt have
enough space for the upgrade....

so I thought that adding the other 4 gb one would give it enough
space to do an upgrade...

am I right or does upgrade need the first drive to be big?

thanks
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I haven't played with dynamic drives in Vista but in previous versions of
Windows you couldn't span a system or boot drive. You could mount a drive
into a folder but that won't work for installing/upgrading Vista.
 
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