You let it use a disk controller that has live data on an attached drive. Caddy the drive at the very least so you can switch out the live, or the Vista drive,
- but preferably use someone else's system JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 1:42 AM Subject: Re: Vista: Initial impressions I installed WIndows Vista beta 2 on partition D: so as not to cause any conflicts between hardware drivers and software. I created a separate folder called D:\programs Vista for all of the Windows Vista applications and hardware so that I can be sure that the right application uninstalled under Windows Vista and not my Windows XP applications since I am running both Winows XP and Vista. Microsoft recomends that you install Windows Vista on either a separate partition or drive and it requires 15GB of free space for the install of which I did not have on the C:\ partition but I perfered to install Vista on partition D: anyway. Marc Sims Data Technician I Prince George's Community College >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/12/06 7:43 PM >>> Agree with most of what you said, however, I didn't understand the reference to the Windows.old. As I understand it the windows.old is for taking an existing installation and protecting it. Did you not put the beta on a new partition? If so, that would be too risky for me to try. In fact I'm so paranoid, I put it on it's own drive <g>! Vincent Winterling Vineland, NJ -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
