INSTALLING WINDOWS VISTA BETA

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Depends,
A lot of persons are contemplating about upgrading their one and only,
production
install of XP. If you are itching to do that, DON'T! DO NOT upgrade your
existing install of XP if you use it for work or you use it on a daily
basis. Not because Vista is at BETA 2 means its ready for prime time or
production environments, it is for testing and to get feedback on what's
wrong with the product.

I also suspect some persons think Vista has been finalized, no its not, its
still in development. I know Vista looks enticing and all, but it is still
not ready for prime time and the numerous reports of unsuccessful,
problematic clean installs, upgrades are proof of that.

If you want to try upgrade scenarios at least make sure you do it on a spare
installation of XP, you have a back up image of your existing install or
simply do a clean install on a separate drive or logical partition. For
those who have already upgraded their installations of XP and want to return
to XP, your only option is to format that drive and reinstall it. There is
no way to uninstall Vista.

Also, there are no upgrade paths from Windows XP Professional x64 to Vista
x86 or x64. You cannot launch Vista x64 setup in Windows XP x86 or you will
get an "invalid Win32" error. You have to boot off the DVD.
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Make an image of your present system (XP) partition on a DVD... or just
buy/get another hard drive, unplug the one w/ XP and install Vista on the
new drive - you might need to install xp first on the new drive.
No other safe solution - that I can think of
Michael
 
I first installed Vista Beta 2 as a dual boot with XP Pro on my main
computer without activating it to see how it would run. After a couple of
days, I was satisfied with what I saw and then wiped clean my two hard
drives and installed Vista Beta 2 as the only OS on my Gateway Computer. I
have an older Dell P3-500 which is also running XP Pro on which I copies all
my important files. The Dell will not be upgraded to Vista. It will remain
with XP Pro for the future, if I don't do something like make it into a
Linux box.

So far I am loving Vista and have not had any problems. Everything installed
perfectly, it is running quite nicely and fast and is a well-behaved client
on my home network. Even the Media Center is performing without a hitch. I
have an ATI TV Wonder Elite tuner card and it work perfectly with Vista.

William
 
He would not have to install xp first.

There is no need to disconnect drives. The Vista boot options screen is
better than risking static discharge while manipulating the components.
 
You can disable HDD controller/s in BIOS - no neede to physically remove
HDDs.
Anyway, I tried to install Vista on an empty 20GB (primary, healthy, non C:)
partition on the only IDE drive - ICH5R RAID and Promise378 SATA/IDE
disabled.
At the beginning of Vista install, Vista pops up a message box "no OS found"
with tweo options: 'restart,' and 'retry.' I can see my IDE HDD partitions,
floppy and DVD drives if I pick the "search for drivers" option on Vista
install screen... but eventually I get back to "no OS found" issue.
Hence, I took it that Vista needs an OS preinstalled - it does not act like
a "full" version in my case.

Michael
 
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