Vista Clean Install

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For much more information on installing Vista subscribe to

microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

And read everything connected with installing Vista (there's a lot) and
Office 2007 Beta. I don't remember seeing anything abot Quickbooks 2006,
but then I wasn't looking for it. If you don't see anything about
Quickbooks 2006, you could ask there.

Also read all the horror stories from people who upgraded their XP
production systems to Vista, got their Vista systems corrupted to the point
they will no longer function, and want to restore XP.

If you do an upgrade of your production XP account there is a very large
chance that you will lose your data. There is no uninstall for Vista, and
no path for returning to XP. The uninstall consists of reformatting the
partition and doing a clean install of XP. If you want to install Vista on
your production machine, create a new partition and install it there in a
dual boot configuration, do not upgrade a production OS

Also keep in mind that Vista does not use boot.sys, it has it's own Vista
boot manager which will be installed on your XP partition. If you remove
Vista, you will have to either reconfigure the Vista boot manager to boot XP
or you will have to remove the Vista boot manager, and get boot.sys working
again. A number of users have been unable to find boot,sys when they wanted
it, so back it up somewhere that you can find it if you need another copy.

It is far better to do a clean install of Vista on a freshly formatted
partition.

Todd
 
Todd said:
For much more information on installing Vista subscribe to

microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

And read everything connected with installing Vista (there's a lot) and
Office 2007 Beta. I don't remember seeing anything abot Quickbooks 2006,
but then I wasn't looking for it. If you don't see anything about
Quickbooks 2006, you could ask there.

Also read all the horror stories from people who upgraded their XP
production systems to Vista, got their Vista systems corrupted to the point
they will no longer function, and want to restore XP.

If you do an upgrade of your production XP account there is a very large
chance that you will lose your data. There is no uninstall for Vista, and
no path for returning to XP. The uninstall consists of reformatting the
partition and doing a clean install of XP. If you want to install Vista on
your production machine, create a new partition and install it there in a
dual boot configuration, do not upgrade a production OS

Also keep in mind that Vista does not use boot.sys, it has it's own Vista
boot manager which will be installed on your XP partition. If you remove
Vista, you will have to either reconfigure the Vista boot manager to boot XP
or you will have to remove the Vista boot manager, and get boot.sys working
again. A number of users have been unable to find boot,sys when they wanted
it, so back it up somewhere that you can find it if you need another copy.

It is far better to do a clean install of Vista on a freshly formatted
partition.

Todd
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Please ignore the above post. You are in the right place.

I thought I was in microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics when I wrote it.

Todd
 
Todd said:
Please ignore the above post. You are in the right place.

I thought I was in microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics when I wrote it.

Todd
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Glad to see this happens to someone else, too.
 
Franklin said:
Hi,
I ordered the Vista on disk. Is it better to do a clean install or and
upgrade? I would like to do a clean install and then install the Office
beta 2 and quickbooks 2006. Which is the best way?
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Do *not* ignore the parts of Todd's post about potential data loss!
Installing a beta OS over a production OS on a machine you use to do work is
just asking for trouble.
Installing any beta software on a production is risky, and should be
proceeded by a full data backup. A beta OS increases the risk factor by
several orders of magnitude.
 
Hi,
I ordered the Vista on disk. Is it better to do a clean install or and
upgrade? I would like to do a clean install and then install the Office beta
2 and quickbooks 2006. Which is the best way?
 
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