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Vista upgrade question
im currently running XP pro sp2 and im thinking of upgrading this to vista ultimate
should i use the upgrade feature or do a fresh install instead?

im worried that this will fudge up stuff if i use the upgrade option cause this is a work computer (and i can't really afford to loose a day or two just reformatting and installing stuff all over again)

thoughts? :D
18/05/2009 08:35 PM
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RE: Vista upgrade question
Can you make a separate partition, install on that, then slowly migrate things over?
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RE: Vista upgrade question
windows 7. get that instead.

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RE: Vista upgrade question
What Kaiser said!! install win7!!


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RE: Vista upgrade question
Kaiser Wrote:windows 7. get that instead.

nah .. can't be botherd to download :D
(i got the vista copy from a friend)

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Can you make a separate partition, install on that, then slowly migrate things over?

i could.. won't that take too long?
but i suppose that'll work :p

thanks guys :D (i guess nobody tried the upgrade thingy)
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RE: Vista upgrade question
you really should consider installing win7!

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RE: Vista upgrade question
boogschd Wrote:i could.. won't that take too long?
but i suppose that'll work :p
Resizing a partition may take a while if you haven't actually prepared one before.
boogschd Wrote:thanks guys :D (i guess nobody tried the upgrade thingy)
In my experience, upgrades don't work terribly well, though they should be fine in the most part I'd say.
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RE: Vista upgrade question
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:
boogschd Wrote:i could.. won't that take too long?
but i suppose that'll work :p
Resizing a partition may take a while if you haven't actually prepared one before.
boogschd Wrote:thanks guys :D (i guess nobody tried the upgrade thingy)
In my experience, upgrades don't work terribly well, though they should be fine in the most part I'd say.

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good thing i have partition magic installed...

k thanks zinga man :D

edit:

if i use another partition for the vista installation.. won't that be in another drive letter and not in "c:" ? Sigh
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RE: Vista upgrade question
I've Always updated, simply because I'm too lazy to back up my stuff :p

But do you really need to insall vista? What's wrong with xp?

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RE: Vista upgrade question
Yes, that would be on another drive letter.  What's wrong with not using C:?  In fact, I prefer not to install Windows on C:

But on the Vista partition, it will probably end up mapping the drive to C: anyway - it'll appear as something different on your XP partition (and vice versa).
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