upgrade my notebook to Vista

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I have a Toshiba notebook that is Vista "compatible" (I've run the
advisor).

I only have the recovery disc.

Will the existing system qualify for upgrading, or will I have to have
a disc?

My thinking is that I'll be fine without the disc.
 
Vista Noob said:
I have a Toshiba notebook that is Vista "compatible" (I've run the
advisor).

I only have the recovery disc.

Will the existing system qualify for upgrading, or will I have to have
a disc?

My thinking is that I'll be fine without the disc.
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You can run the upgrade from within the OS itself and it should work

Caution: Just because a machine is Vista compatable does not necessarily
mean
Vista will run well.

Your choice though
 
I had a core duo Vista laptop with Vista Home Premium (it now has XP Pro),
my advice, don't mess with a working XP system.
ONLY if you must get new hardware should you downgrade to Vista.
 
You can run the upgrade from within the OS itself and it should work

Caution: Just because a machine is Vista compatable does not necessarily
mean Vista will run well.
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I know that. My notebook is my backup machine... and so many of my
friends now have Vista machines that I'm not able to help them without
having a Vista machine to work from while I help (over the phone).

I have a True Image backup, in case things go awry.
 
I had a core duo Vista laptop with Vista Home Premium (it now has XP Pro),
my advice, don't mess with a working XP system.
ONLY if you must get new hardware should you downgrade to Vista.
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I'm only gonna put Home Basic on it. Don't need all the visual fluff
that comes with other versions, and don't wanna buy a bag full of RAM
chips to make it work properly..
 
Vista said:
I know that. My notebook is my backup machine... and so many of my
friends now have Vista machines that I'm not able to help them without
having a Vista machine to work from while I help (over the phone).

I have a True Image backup, in case things go awry.
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If your primary machine has enough juice... RAM, HD, etc... you might
consider running Vista in a virtual machine. Yes, you would have to buy
a full install copy of Vista, but then you could leave your laptop alone
and not have to worry about whether it would run Vista acceptably.

Lang
 
If your primary machine has enough juice... RAM, HD, etc... you might
consider running Vista in a virtual machine. Yes, you would have to buy
a full install copy of Vista, but then you could leave your laptop alone
and not have to worry about whether it would run Vista acceptably.
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That's something to think about. It's definitely got "enough juice".
 
More than half the people I talk to that use Vista tell me it is NOT an
upgrade from XP, it's just a PITA.
But if you NEED something Vista actually offers that is not available in XP,
go for it.
Good Luck.

I had a core duo Vista laptop with Vista Home Premium (it now has XP Pro),
my advice, don't mess with a working XP system.
ONLY if you must get new hardware should you downgrade to Vista.
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I'm only gonna put Home Basic on it. Don't need all the visual fluff
that comes with other versions, and don't wanna buy a bag full of RAM
chips to make it work properly..
 
If your primary machine has enough juice... RAM, HD, etc... you might
consider running Vista in a virtual machine. Yes, you would have to buy
a full install copy of Vista, but then you could leave your laptop alone
and not have to worry about whether it would run Vista acceptably.
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That's something to think about. It's definitely got "enough juice".
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But you haven't run Vista yet. Don't be so sure.
 
Not Me said:
More than half the people I talk to that use Vista tell me it is NOT an
upgrade from XP, it's just a PITA.
But if you NEED something Vista actually offers that is not available in
XP, go for it.
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Maybe that is the major part of the problem. What does Vista offer that
can't be had with less RAM/CPU/PITA with XP?
 
My core 2 duo, 1.86Ghz, Toshiba laptop came with Vista Home Premium. I
upgraded from 1GB to 2GB RAM, so it should have run fine.
It never did run the way I thought it should, so I upgraded it to XP Pro.
Now it runs fast & stable.

Strongly advise you not to upgrade on a Toshiba laptop.
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Your advice is meaningless/worthless unless you provide particulars -
and I don't mean hearsay.
 
Your advice is meaningless/worthless unless you provide particulars -
and I don't mean hearsay.
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You are a knob.

If the laptop doesn't have at least 2GB of RAM, dual core and a nice video
chipset with dedicated memory, all upgrading to Vista will do is show the
user how slow Vista real is.

I would certainly hope he keeps his XP license and recovery media if he
wants to go back.
 
If your primary machine has enough juice... RAM, HD, etc... you might
consider running Vista in a virtual machine. Yes, you would have to buy
a full install copy of Vista, but then you could leave your laptop alone
and not have to worry about whether it would run Vista acceptably.
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That's something to think about. It's definitely got "enough juice".
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Yeah... if all you want to do is have access to a vanilla copy of Vista to
support your users, then a VM may be the way to go. You won't be doing any
hardware support in that scenario, but I don't get the feeling that's what
you're looking to achieve.

In any case, good luck!

Lang
 
You are a knob.

If the laptop doesn't have at least 2GB of RAM, dual core and a nice video
chipset with dedicated memory, all upgrading to Vista will do is show the
user how slow Vista real is.
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And you are a moron. Vista Home Basic was referenced in the original
post and it doesn't need that much crap.
 
Yeah... if all you want to do is have access to a vanilla copy of Vista to
support your users, then a VM may be the way to go. You won't be doing any
hardware support in that scenario, but I don't get the feeling that's what
you're looking to achieve.

In any case, good luck!
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Great post. Thanks.
 
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