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The number one smart way to install Windows Vista Beta 2 is on a separate test machine.
Take one of your secondary computer systems and do a couple of upgrades, if necessary, to
make it Vista capable.
I took an older P3 system which I occasionally brought up to run BitTorrent. I put in a new
micro ATX motherboard with the Intel 945G chipset, a dual core CPU (2.66 GHz), and one gig
of DDR2 667 memory. The upgrade cost was about $300. I installed Vista Beta 2 on this test
system and it's working great. The money is not wasted since this will eventually become my
primary Windows Vista computer.
The second smart way to install the Vista Beta 2 is on a completely separate hard drive and
use the BIOS as your boot manager.
The not-so-smart way is to install to a separate partition on your XP drive and hope the
boot manager doesn't get screwed up making your XP partition unavailable.
I won't even go into other possible options, like an upgrade install, because it does not
even remotely fall into the smart install category.
Take one of your secondary computer systems and do a couple of upgrades, if necessary, to
make it Vista capable.
I took an older P3 system which I occasionally brought up to run BitTorrent. I put in a new
micro ATX motherboard with the Intel 945G chipset, a dual core CPU (2.66 GHz), and one gig
of DDR2 667 memory. The upgrade cost was about $300. I installed Vista Beta 2 on this test
system and it's working great. The money is not wasted since this will eventually become my
primary Windows Vista computer.
The second smart way to install the Vista Beta 2 is on a completely separate hard drive and
use the BIOS as your boot manager.
The not-so-smart way is to install to a separate partition on your XP drive and hope the
boot manager doesn't get screwed up making your XP partition unavailable.
I won't even go into other possible options, like an upgrade install, because it does not
even remotely fall into the smart install category.