Home Users - DONT INSTALL VISTA - Why?

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If you're asking why you shouldnt install a beta you really need hitting
twice around the head:

1. This is an operating system, 80% of you will format your old hard drive
in an attempt to get windows vista beta onto it

2. This is microsoft, there're countless bugs in vista at least one of which
i assure you you'll find.

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Why am I telling you this? Because it occured to me, as windows vista
completely "f'd" up on installation that had I not had a test machine i'd
have lost windows XP and all my files etc.

Things I noticed about vista;

Did boot from startup but because these microsoft "egghead" tried to be
funky about the installation screen it failed (exact reason unknown, but
trying to run a more sophisticated installation program in semi-dos is just
plain stupid)

After several failed attempts trying to copy files from the dvd to the hard
drive (errors in between "sorry dude, we couldnt quite sort out copying files
from a dvd disc to a hard drive, we only went over it once in microsoft
school")

Tried doing a "straightforward" upgrade from windows xp, had all the
necessary requirments for it but vista just didnt want to install.

My advice: Stay well clear, this is just a big scheme by windows to try and
get feedback on how the OS works. As soon as my errors occured windows tried
to send a message back to its makers "we failed miserby lords, we couldnt
even copy ourselves onto the users hard drive"

Joey :/
 
You forgot the most important part. "If youre so stupid as to over write an
existing working OS with any beta"....

Mitch
 
Um, this is what, to me at least, beta testing is for. To find bugs and
report them to the developers. Yeah - there WILL be bugs. I have bugs in my
installation and such, but when I find them I report them to hopefully get
fixed in the next release.

If people don't want to be involved in this test process, are afraid of
bugs, afraid their computer will crash, or don't have any knowledge beyond
the basics of how operating systems work, then DON'T install the beta! It's
as simple as that.
 
I received the dvd's in the mail a week ago. Installed Vista to an old hd I
had laying around. Installed with no problems and found my hardware and
installed it. Duel boot works great and doesn't mess up my XP which I have on
Raido. Vista looks and works good. Thera are a few bugs but that are what
betas are for. I think they are on the way to being a very good operating
sysyem.
 
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