VISTA INSTALLATION

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If its a Beta OS YOU should at least make it so when you install it the
previous OS goes into passive ro hibernation so its not gone, but its not
activated and you are using Vista, if you chose to go back to your previous
OS such as me with going back from Vista to Xp have a option that uninstalls
Vista and reactivates Xp\2000 with out damaging your settings and such.
Otherwise it should not be released to the public. I have fixed mine and gone
back to Xp after 12 grueling hours of work. 1. Reformating, 2. reconfiguring
via DOS, 3. installing Xp, 4. rebooting 21 times, 5. fixing failed
instgalation, 6. reformating again, 7. reconfiguring via DOS, 8. reinstalling
Xp, 9. deleting previous Xp instalation failure via boot.ini, 10. bypassing
recovery drive security, 11. finding recovery files, 12. installing audio,
ethernet, and other important apps, 13. installing other drivers from
bypassed recovery drive, 14. installing my apps (MSN, Games, and such) PLEASE
TAKE MY SUGGESTION OF THE PASSIVE OS IN CONSIDERATION


Best regards

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http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/co...osoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
 
Did you even READ the warnings prior to installing Vista?

Sounds like you were not the right person to be a beta tester.
 
It already work like that, almost:

A: Get a new HDD for Vista
B: Shrink the partition on your current HDD with gparted live cd for
example.
C: Get new hdd for Backup and use old for vista
D: Get Mac with Parallels and switch between XP,Vista and OS X with ease..
 
R.B. wrote On 6/18/2006 7:35 PM:
If its a Beta OS YOU should at least make it so when you install it the
previous OS goes into passive ro hibernation so its not gone, but its not
activated and you are using Vista, if you chose to go back to your previous
OS such as me with going back from Vista to Xp have a option that uninstalls
Vista and reactivates Xp\2000 with out damaging your settings and such.
Otherwise it should not be released to the public.
Click to expand...

There really is only one way to install Vista -- use a boot/partition
manager, such as BING from www.terabyteunlimited.com, or one of the more
expensive, GUIfied boot managers from Symantec or others.

Put Vista on a separate partition, keep XP on a separate (smaller
partition) and create a USER partition to put your music/docts and such
on. The boot/partition manager can grow/shrink/move partitions around
and then manage how the partitions appear for each boot configuration
(either XP or Vista).

Prior to getting my new computer, I could boot Win2K, XPPro, XPHE, XPPro
SP2, etc each configured to use a separate DATA partition. With my new
computer, I just have XP and Vista, with a USER data partition and the
Dell diagnostics partition (boots w95). That's a total of four partitions.

Hide XP from Vista and hide Vista from XP. Then tweak the two OSes to
find your user data on the USER partition.

With this approach, you can use either Vista or XP and your email, Word
documents, music files, video files, etc. can be used on either system
and if you decide to move forward with Vista, upgrade the Vista
partition and erase the XP partition, or else erase the Vista partition
and go back to XP until you, for example, buy a new system with Vista
pre-installed.

Sounds to me like a whole lot of Vista beta testers need to learn how to
use a good boot/partition manager. Want a tutorial?
 
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