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I'm debating putting Vista Beta on it's own drive vs a partition on my system disk. Any reasons for one vs the other ?

Yes this is possible I suspect you mean, plugging a clean hard disk, booting off the disk and install Vista, right? One thing though, its possible that you might encounter issues installing on RAW Disk, I suggest you install Windows XP on it, then install Vista on a logical NTFS partition. Its much safer this way, especially with Vista's new Windows Boot Manager, this will make it easier to switch back to your XP hard disk when you are ready, its really a great way to test.
Partitioning though is more of a convenience approach to testing, if you are not those type of persons who pulls down your machine or keep the case open always, you can simply have Vista installed on a logical partition and reboot into it when you feel like. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"- Bobb -" wrote in message

I'm debating putting Vista Beta on it's own drive vs a partition on my system disk. Any reasons for one vs the other ?

It all depends on whether you are willing to risk the loss of your Windows XP Installation (that is if your hard drive goes bad, just like mine did a couple of hours ago). I personally recommend that you install it on a separate hard drive if you are installing Build 5308 CTP, I don't have access to Builds 5342 and 5365, so I don't know how much better it is compared to Build 5308 CTP, but I have heard Some Good Things about Build 5365 and some Very Bad Things about Build 5342, just FYI.
"- Bobb -" wrote in message

I'm debating putting Vista Beta on it's own drive vs a partition on my system disk. Any reasons for one vs the other ?

Ok so NOT a problem to share the drive ? I currently have one SATA drive - 3 partitions: XP on C, X64 on E and debating putting Vista on partition D . OR ,I've got a lots of unused drives ( on the shelf) that had Win2000 on them ( FAT and NTFS). I could install one of those and wipe it for Vista. If putting Vista on my current drive won't cause me grief, I'd prefer that. I just wanted to make sure that upon install ,step one isn't to wipe the drive.( thereby losing my data)
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

Yes this is possible I suspect you mean, plugging a clean hard disk, booting off the disk and install Vista, right? One thing though, its possible that you might encounter issues installing on RAW Disk, I suggest you install Windows XP on it, then install Vista on a logical NTFS partition. Its much safer this way, especially with Vista's new Windows Boot Manager, this will make it easier to switch back to your XP hard disk when you are ready, its really a great way to test. Partitioning though is more of a convenience approach to testing, if you are not those type of persons who pulls down your machine or keep the case open always, you can simply have Vista installed on a logical partition and reboot into it when you feel like. -- -- Andre

"- Bobb -" wrote in message I'm debating putting Vista Beta on it's own drive vs a partition on my system disk. Any reasons for one vs the other ?

No, Vista's setup when you launch it from within an existing version of Windows such as XP x86 or XP x64 is very straight forward. Simply select the partition you created for Vista, and setup will do the rest. If there is existing data on the partition you created for Vista though, you will have to format it first. Vista co-exist just fine with XP, thats how my configuration is setup right now, I am multi booting with XP x86, XP x64, Server 2003 x86, Server 2003 x64, Mac OS X x86 and Vista x86 build 5342. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"- Bobb -" wrote in message

Ok so NOT a problem to share the drive ? I currently have one SATA drive - 3 partitions: XP on C, X64 on E and debating putting Vista on partition D . OR ,I've got a lots of unused drives ( on the shelf) that had Win2000 on them ( FAT and NTFS). I could install one of those and wipe it for Vista. If putting Vista on my current drive won't cause me grief, I'd prefer that. I just wanted to make sure that upon install ,step one isn't to wipe the drive.( thereby losing my data)
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Yes this is possible I suspect you mean, plugging a clean hard disk, booting off the disk and install Vista, right? One thing though, its possible that you might encounter issues installing on RAW Disk, I suggest you install Windows XP on it, then install Vista on a logical NTFS partition. Its much safer this way, especially with Vista's new Windows Boot Manager, this will make it easier to switch back to your XP hard disk when you are ready, its really a great way to test. Partitioning though is more of a convenience approach to testing, if you are not those type of persons who pulls down your machine or keep the case open always, you can simply have Vista installed on a logical partition and reboot into it when you feel like. -- -- Andre

"- Bobb -" wrote in message I'm debating putting Vista Beta on it's own drive vs a partition on my system disk. Any reasons for one vs the other ?

Do you not have access to Build 5365, Andre?
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

No, Vista's setup when you launch it from within an existing version of Windows such as XP x86 or XP x64 is very straight forward. Simply select the partition you created for Vista, and setup will do the rest. If there is existing data on the partition you created for Vista though, you will have to format it first. Vista co-exist just fine with XP, thats how my configuration is setup right now, I am multi booting with XP x86, XP x64, Server 2003 x86, Server 2003 x64, Mac OS X x86 and Vista x86 build 5342. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"- Bobb -" wrote in message Ok so NOT a problem to share the drive ? I currently have one SATA drive - 3 partitions: XP on C, X64 on E and debating putting Vista on partition D . OR ,I've got a lots of unused drives ( on the shelf) that had Win2000 on them ( FAT and NTFS). I could install one of those and wipe it for Vista. If putting Vista on my current drive won't cause me grief, I'd prefer that. I just wanted to make sure that upon install ,step one isn't to wipe the drive.( thereby losing my data)
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Yes this is possible I suspect you mean, plugging a clean hard disk, booting off the disk and install Vista, right? One thing though, its possible that you might encounter issues installing on RAW Disk, I suggest you install Windows XP on it, then install Vista on a logical NTFS partition. Its much safer this way, especially with Vista's new Windows Boot Manager, this will make it easier to switch back to your XP hard disk when you are ready, its really a great way to test. Partitioning though is more of a convenience approach to testing, if you are not those type of persons who pulls down your machine or keep the case open always, you can simply have Vista installed on a logical partition and reboot into it when you feel like. -- -- Andre

"- Bobb -" wrote in message I'm debating putting Vista Beta on it's own drive vs a partition on my system disk. Any reasons for one vs the other ?

Yes, the x86 version is running on my laptop, I am downloading the x64 version to put on my 64 bit machine tomorrow. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Kevin John Panzke" wrote in message

Do you not have access to Build 5365, Andre?
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message No, Vista's setup when you launch it from within an existing version of Windows such as XP x86 or XP x64 is very straight forward. Simply select the partition you created for Vista, and setup will do the rest. If there is existing data on the partition you created for Vista though, you will have to format it first. Vista co-exist just fine with XP, thats how my configuration is setup right now, I am multi booting with XP x86, XP x64, Server 2003 x86, Server 2003 x64, Mac OS X x86 and Vista x86 build 5342. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"- Bobb -" wrote in message Ok so NOT a problem to share the drive ? I currently have one SATA drive - 3 partitions: XP on C, X64 on E and debating putting Vista on partition D . OR ,I've got a lots of unused drives ( on the shelf) that had Win2000 on them ( FAT and NTFS). I could install one of those and wipe it for Vista. If putting Vista on my current drive won't cause me grief, I'd prefer that. I just wanted to make sure that upon install ,step one isn't to wipe the drive.( thereby losing my data)
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Yes this is possible I suspect you mean, plugging a clean hard disk, booting off the disk and install Vista, right? One thing though, its possible that you might encounter issues installing on RAW Disk, I suggest you install Windows XP on it, then install Vista on a logical NTFS partition. Its much safer this way, especially with Vista's new Windows Boot Manager, this will make it easier to switch back to your XP hard disk when you are ready, its really a great way to test. Partitioning though is more of a convenience approach to testing, if you are not those type of persons who pulls down your machine or keep the case open always, you can simply have Vista installed on a logical partition and reboot into it when you feel like. -- -- Andre

"- Bobb -" wrote in message I'm debating putting Vista Beta on it's own drive vs a partition on my system disk. Any reasons for one vs the other ?

I did it the way Andre stated and it was a piece of cake. Put all my docs on a logical drive E:. Installed XP on D:, Vista on C:. Works just fine, no problema.
"- Bobb -" wrote in message

I'm debating putting Vista Beta on it's own drive vs a partition on my system disk. Any reasons for one vs the other ?

It really (can) be that simple :o) But to be 100% honest, even I get scared of dual-booting on occasions - one wrong move and that's it, an entire OS practically useless :o(
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--: Original message follows :-- "Puppy Breath" wrote in message

I did it the way Andre stated and it was a piece of cake. Put all my docs on a logical drive E:. Installed XP on D:, Vista on C:. Works just fine, no problema.
"- Bobb -" wrote in message I'm debating putting Vista Beta on it's own drive vs a partition on my system disk. Any reasons for one vs the other ?

Hah - I'm with Zack on that. Dual-booting gives me the willies on an actual production machine, even though I've never had any problems with it. I mean, it's a good thing to have a second, working OS onboard when you're beta testing another OS. But once the beta is over and it's time to use the actual product on my main working machine, I invariably go to just having that one OS installed. (Not that anyone cares about my opinion)

Signed,

Unduly Paranoid

"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

It really (can) be that simple :o) But to be 100% honest, even I get scared of dual-booting on occasions - one wrong move and that's it, an entire OS practically useless :o(
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Puppy Breath" wrote in message I did it the way Andre stated and it was a piece of cake. Put all my docs on a logical drive E:. Installed XP on D:, Vista on C:. Works just fine, no problema.
"- Bobb -" wrote in message I'm debating putting Vista Beta on it's own drive vs a partition on my system disk. Any reasons for one vs the other ?

No, its not, even if your production XP install became corrupt, (not bootable), all you would have to do is install XP on another partition and add the entry to the old XP install and make it bootable again. Or simply boot from the XP CD and use fixmbr. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

It really (can) be that simple :o) But to be 100% honest, even I get scared of dual-booting on occasions - one wrong move and that's it, an entire OS practically useless :o(
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Puppy Breath" wrote in message I did it the way Andre stated and it was a piece of cake. Put all my docs on a logical drive E:. Installed XP on D:, Vista on C:. Works just fine, no problema.
"- Bobb -" wrote in message I'm debating putting Vista Beta on it's own drive vs a partition on my system disk. Any reasons for one vs the other ?

Puppy Breath wrote:

I did it the way Andre stated and it was a piece of cake. Put all my docs on a logical drive E:. Installed XP on D:, Vista on C:. Works just fine, no problema.

Will it set up a dual boot with XP if I run the Vista install DVD within XP and direct Vista to install on a different partition or disk?

"- Bobb -" wrote in message I'm debating putting Vista Beta on it's own drive vs a partition on my system disk. Any reasons for one vs the other ?

Yes, only manual think you will have to do is select the partition. Upgrading is enabled in 5308, so it will default to the partition on which XP is installed. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"mamamia" wrote in message

Puppy Breath wrote: I did it the way Andre stated and it was a piece of cake. Put all my docs on a logical drive E:. Installed XP on D:, Vista on C:. Works just fine, no problema.
Will it set up a dual boot with XP if I run the Vista install DVD within XP and direct Vista to install on a different partition or disk?
"- Bobb -" wrote in message I'm debating putting Vista Beta on it's own drive vs a partition on my system disk. Any reasons for one vs the other ?