vista installation

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Hi, i want to know if i install vista beta2 on top of my xp home
edition....would i lose all my music,documents,other important files and
settings and have a total new system? if yes... is there a way to install is
without losing anything at all....also what happens when the demo expires in
2007? do i automatically go back to the last settings xp home edition? or i
have to install is again on my system? i have my system setup very nicely...i
don't really wanna mess around with it....but i am willing to try vista beta2
that looks super cool.... someone with the right knowledge please get to me @
(e-mail address removed). would be greatful!!!

ALSO HOW DO I DEAL WITH THIS SEO FILE?
 
Would isn't the correct term, may is possible. On doing an upgrade to beta
2 I wasn't able to open any file on the resulting system without BSOD.
As Colin has advised don't install if anything important is on the system.
You won't be able to get back to Home, and there is no way to know what
provisions they will make for upgrading the beta to RTM, but since that
isn't the way it has been done in the past, I would doubt it. Usually you
can keep on using the beta after the expiration (no guarantee, and is
illegal at that time) but you will kick yourself not having the RTM version
and Updates usually won't install or will make your system unstable.
If you want to test it, I highly recommend that you add another drive, image
your Home system over and upgrade the new image. You could do a clean
install to that drive of Vista. You can copy your files over manually.
If you decide to do the upgrade over your system, make sure you have a good
drive image before you start.
Its a beta. Don't risk anything you care about losing.
Posting your email address isn't a good idea. Hope you have good anti-virus
protection.
 
Yes, to the first question and very carefully to the last.

Use your dvd burning software's "burn image to disc" function. Do not
perform any operations on the file except that. Burn at the lowest burn
speed your software supports.

Do not install Vista on the only partition on your primary home computer.
Just don't.
 
1) Don't upgrade your XP to any Vista Beta, and you'd be better off if you
always clean installed believe me. But there is a market out there for
people who want to save money and upgrade so MSFT will keep pushing it.
I've never seen a softie upgrade Windows, on there own boxes except for
testing purposes, and I don't expect I ever will. But trust me on this one.
Protect that nice system you like. Don't upgrade. Todd's advise also
figures into this strongly.

2) I recommend if you have another hard drive or pc to use it. If you don't
you can ***dual boot*** and if you have to make another partition you can do
this with Ranish for free. Then later when you have Vista on your box, you
could use diskmgmt.msc in the run box Disk Management to further expand or
shrink partitions.

Dual booting offers the advantage that on one box you have access to all
your XP files and folders by typing C:\Documents and Settings\Dipen's XP
Profile\Desktop in your run box, and dragging the folder icon off the top of
the folder name bar to your desktop as a shortcut.

EVeryone recommends you back up your XP to media or image it first with
software like Acronis, Ghost.

3) Whatever you would have on a Beta Windows before it times out that you
want, you should copy to another drive or save on media. You're getting
plenty of time until June 2007 to worry about that.

4) This is a link to Ranish partitioning software if you need to make a
partition for Vista on that box:

Well recommended by veterans on the net:
Ranish Partition Manager
http://www.ranish.com/part/

Ranish Partition Manager is a powerful hard disk partitioning tool.
It gives users high level of control for running multiple operating systems,
such as Linux, Windows 98/XP, FreeDOS, and FreeBSD on a single disk.

Good luck,

CH
 
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