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What are your thoughts on Vista?
WinXP Home (32-bit) can be upgraded to Vista Home Premium. WinXP Pro (32-bit) can only be upgraded to Business or Ultimate. If I wipe my HD clean, so WinXP is gone, and then I insert a Home Prem upgrade CD, it asks me to put in a CD of a previous version of Windows right? No, it doesn't.

Dual boot with WinXP
Question: the HD is currently configured as FAT 32 (Acer did this prior to purchase). Should this pose a problem? I often hear that a "clean install" is the way to go but doesn't that mean I'd have to wipe my HD clean, purchase a FULL edition og MS Vista Ultimate ($400!) and the reinstall all my applications?

PartyPoker MF's
If you choose to install Vista on the same partition as XP Pro SP2, it will wipe it clean as whistle. By the way, back up. If you have a Windows XP Pro SP2 box, can Beta 1 Vista be installed as a dual boot or in a new folder without any problems--what is the optimal method if the 80 GB HD is divided into 4

Windows XP gone after Vista installation
I defrag/clean up files...what there is of them. HP's only recommendation is to restore comp to original with the Recovery Disc. Could the HD have an inherent problem? What do you all recommend? Thank you in advance for any help. PS I was actually contemplating purchase of my own Vista Home Prem, wipe the HD and

Clean install
The manual that came with your unknown system should tell you how to do that. most of these "recovery" procedures wipe all info on the HD and put the system On the Vista newsgroups there is lots of info and advice.Most of the installation advice suggests a Clean New install not an upgrade install...maybe thats

Uninstalling Vista problem
All drives check out clean. I have about 80% of the data backed up. I try copying my data over to another drive on the Jmicron, and ofc ourse the system locks I even tried a boot with Vista, and got stuck at "unrecognized Disk" with teh proper drivers not helping either. So I wipe the HD and reload the OS (xp

Upgrading Windows 2000 to Vista
Well, yes - what was best for their business was using illegal tactics to wipe out the competition. They did that, Intel gained big time, and then all this business with Alpha and whatnot turned ..... He refused to run virus checking on the HD-based machines on the network, and refused to clean floppy disc drives.

Reminder: Windows XP Runs Natively On Intel Macs
However, I will use this as a means to convince my wife of the need for an external HD <grin>, backup what I have, and do a clean install. -- Best regards, Charles Dell XPS 700 - Vista Ultimate upgrade "Byron Hinson" wrote: It may be more a case of the bios not supporting the newer RAM, lots of times new bios

FSX and Vista
It's best to render and single frame record all animations in field m= ode since that will produce a real smooth and clean effect for motion. With a TBC-IV card and a 1.7G HD(n= eed to be Micropolis or Seagate and only certain models) about $4000. = The output quality is very reasonable for the price.

XP Professional OEM to Vista Ultimate Upgrade Transferable?
With OS X still existing on the HD, I deleted all existing partitions on the HD from within the Vista Installer (which should have wiped the HD clean as a baby's butt) Not at all. Repartitioning doesn't do anything but wipe out the partition table. It's like ripping out the table of contents from a textbook--though

Formating XP HD drive
Apple isn't squeaky clean here, not by a long shot. Why isn't Apple public announcing their Vista support plans, ie when and if Boot Camp will support it and I never had any problems installing Vista on my Apple Intel PC. In fact, it went on as easy as it was to wipe OS X off the HD -- that is, EXTREMEMLY easy.

Computer Tips [ Alert! New Security Threat + Laptop Protection ...
So even if I have a valid XP licence, I can't build a Vista PC from scratch, the install process doesn't allow me to wipe the HD because I can't boot off Kinda sorta fixable: While there is a workaround that lets you perform a clean Vista install with just an upgrade disc, it requires installing Vista twice.

Can I erase/format a Windows HD on the Mac ?
I once had to deal with an angry customer who wanted me to wipe his harddrive clean because there was only some 70GB of the 80GB available. I explained he'd lose the Windows he paid for, but apparently he found it to be clutter on his HD... Now that's hardcore. Hulde! I've always told myself that on my next

Full Folder transferred from XP computer shows "Empty Folder ...
Bruce Chambers bchamb...@cable0ne.n3t microsoft public windows vista general twinriver1 wrote: I am using Vista Home Premium. I understand that this Vista does not allow When I upgrade, sould I jut pop-in the cd/dvd and let the Ultimat do the upgrade or should I wipe out the hard drive and do a clean install?

Question abotu upgrading to Vista
It's a prime time star I'll be, never will I fade Ha hahahahahahaha Hastala vista ... Baby. I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. De Mille. ...... Dot supervises the clean up while Bob looks over Hexadecimal (along with the entire Mainframe Security Force in green and gold cars.) HD is recovering.

OT - Upgrading Computers
PC Specs are: 2.4GHZ P4 250GB PATA HD 1GB RAM Anyone got any ideas and help You CANNOT DO A CLEAN INSTALL with an upgrade version ... no matter what the This is actually ok, since Vista->Vista is a valid upgrade path. If you enter the install key the FIRST time, then wipe the drive, the installer will protest

Getting ready to install Vista
ray r...@zianet.com microsoft public windows vista general On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:00:34 -0800, Heath wrote: I have used the upgrade kit for vista home premium. I am wondering if I should do a clean install of vista (wipe drive clean) cause i did not know it would leave the old OS on the drive.

Why Does MSFT Rob Customers of Means to Recover Vista?
"Heath" <He...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F3770B77-63CF-48B8-B54E-5A89A9C73A9C@microsoft.com... I have used the upgrade kit for vista home premium. I am wondering if I should do a clean install of vista (wipe drive clean) cause i did not know it would leave the old OS on the drive.

Will clean install wipe second HD?
So far, I haven't figured out a way to reformat my hard drive, wipe Vista, and start over. Anyone figured this out yet. "Chad Harris" wrote: S-- Again tell us. Was XP ever installed on this drive? Is this a clean, virgin out of the box HD? Did you perhaps upgrade from XP? Did you have a dual boot and use some

Formating XP HD drive
Ok I've got a strange update problem. Clean install on a HP Pavilion ZV6000 AMD 64 3200 1.5G Ram 40G hardrive. Trying to Test vista out right now. Really trying to test it out fully before I wipe my main HD for the actual install on this laptop. Perhaps it is a symptom of some kind of Accessibility feature