UPGRADE A DUAL BOOT XP HOME AND RC1 VISTA.

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I have RC1 on a separate drive and both work well. What kind of Vista do I
get to continue what I have without erasing what I have in Vista?
 
Hi,

While there was never any guarantee that you would be able to upgrade RC1,
you should be able to upgrade to the release of the same version as you
installed. In most cases, this would be Vista Ultimate, but if you installed
(sans Product Key) any other version (Home, Home Premium, etc.), then you
should be able to use that version or one of a higher level than it.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
I believe RC1 to finished RTM is a supported scenario, or at least it was a
tested scenario, I myself wouldn't advise doing it. If you can't or don't
want to save all your files to a separate disk, partition or network, you
can always try Windows Easy transfer. Run it in RC1, then wipe and clean
install RTM and run Windows easy transfer.

I wouldn't advise any one to upgrade XPSP2 to Vista never mind a beta Vista
to the finished article.

Colin Thompson
 
I don't even advise dual booting with XP and Vista. Booting into XP does
bad things to Vista files like System Restore Points and other files created
by the Vista Volume Shadowcopy Services driver. We haven't had this
phenomenon before when dual booting older and newer versions of Windows but
we sure do now. At least use a boot manager that can hide Vista from XP.
 
Couldn't you just not assign a drive letter to the XP partition under Vista, and not assign a drive
letter to the Vista partition under XP to avoid these problems?


|I don't even advise dual booting with XP and Vista. Booting into XP does
| bad things to Vista files like System Restore Points and other files created
| by the Vista Volume Shadowcopy Services driver. We haven't had this
| phenomenon before when dual booting older and newer versions of Windows but
| we sure do now. At least use a boot manager that can hide Vista from XP.
|
| | >I believe RC1 to finished RTM is a supported scenario, or at least it was a
| > tested scenario, I myself wouldn't advise doing it. If you can't or don't
| > want to save all your files to a separate disk, partition or network, you
| > can always try Windows Easy transfer. Run it in RC1, then wipe and clean
| > install RTM and run Windows easy transfer.
| >
| > I wouldn't advise any one to upgrade XPSP2 to Vista never mind a beta
| > Vista
| > to the finished article.
| >
| > Colin Thompson
| > | >> Hi,
| >>
| >> While there was never any guarantee that you would be able to upgrade
| >> RC1,
| >> you should be able to upgrade to the release of the same version as you
| >> installed. In most cases, this would be Vista Ultimate, but if you
| >> installed (sans Product Key) any other version (Home, Home Premium,
| >> etc.),
| >> then you should be able to use that version or one of a higher level than
| >> it.
| >>
| >> --
| >> Best of Luck,
| >>
| >> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
| >>
| >> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
| >>
| >> | >>>I have RC1 on a separate drive and both work well. What kind of Vista do
| >>>I
| >>> get to continue what I have without erasing what I have in Vista?
| >>
| >
|
|
 
The XP and Vista Volume Shadowcopy Services drivers (volsnap.sys) are
systemwide. That is why you need to hide the Vista volume. Volsnap.sys
starts up when Windows loads unless you use Safe Mode (which is why you
cannot make a System Restore Point in Safe Mode). Volsnap.sys in XP and
Vista have an incompatibility such that although the Vista driver knows
about XP and leaves it alone, the XP version is not Vista-aware and
incorrectly determines that the Vista VSS files are corrupt and deletes them
in order to prevent the user from attempting to restore corrupt copies.
This is a known issue and MS has announced that since a fix would require an
extensive rewrite to XP they are not going to fix it. Using BitLocker on
the Vista volume also prevents the XP volsnap.sys from removing any files.
 
I believe RC1 to finished RTM is a supported scenario, or at least it was a
tested scenario, I myself wouldn't advise doing it. If you can't or don't
want to save all your files to a separate disk, partition or network, you
can always try Windows Easy transfer. Run it in RC1, then wipe and clean
install RTM and run Windows easy transfer.

I wouldn't advise any one to upgrade XPSP2 to Vista never mind a beta Vista
to the finished article.

Colin Thompson
Definitely NOT an MVP of any sort, so take my advice with a pinch of salt
 
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