Vista install question

Posted: 06-09-2006, 06:18 AM

Les Herrman

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Have a question about the Beta 2 public preview.

Have seen people here saying that you can install it as a Dual boot
with your current XP system. However the MS beta preview page says it
can only be installed Clean or as an upgrade to XP. Dual boot is not
mentioned as an option.

Is Dual boot an option??? I do not want to hose my current XP
install. I have 3 other hard drives in my system and would love to
install it to one of those drives as a dual boot to XP if it is
actually possible to install it as a dual boot. Does it give you that
option when you run the setup?

SO...Can anyone tell for sure that you can defenitely install Vista as
a dual boot?

Thanks!

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Tom Ziegmann

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Re: Vista install question

Posted: 06-09-2006, 06:23 AM

I'm pretty sure if you have another partition you want to install Vista on
you should be able to do a custom install and select that partition.

> Have a question about the Beta 2 public preview.
>
> Have seen people here saying that you can install it as a Dual boot
> with your current XP system. However the MS beta preview page says it
> can only be installed Clean or as an upgrade to XP. Dual boot is not
> mentioned as an option.
>
> Is Dual boot an option??? I do not want to hose my current XP
> install. I have 3 other hard drives in my system and would love to
> install it to one of those drives as a dual boot to XP if it is
> actually possible to install it as a dual boot. Does it give you that
> option when you run the setup?
>
> SO...Can anyone tell for sure that you can defenitely install Vista as
> a dual boot?
>
> Thanks!
>

Zack Whittaker

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Re: Vista install question

Posted: 06-09-2006, 06:32 AM

Dual boot is an option - the beta teams would rather you upgrade from XPSP2
as they want to see how the upgrade process goes - however that's only for
the daring type ;o)

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<Les Herrman> wrote in message
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> Have a question about the Beta 2 public preview.
>
> Have seen people here saying that you can install it as a Dual boot
> with your current XP system. However the MS beta preview page says it
> can only be installed Clean or as an upgrade to XP. Dual boot is not
> mentioned as an option.
>
> Is Dual boot an option??? I do not want to hose my current XP
> install. I have 3 other hard drives in my system and would love to
> install it to one of those drives as a dual boot to XP if it is
> actually possible to install it as a dual boot. Does it give you that
> option when you run the setup?
>
> SO...Can anyone tell for sure that you can defenitely install Vista as
> a dual boot?
>
> Thanks!
>

Ron Miller

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Re: Vista install question

Posted: 06-10-2006, 03:37 AM

Les Herrman wrote:

> Have a question about the Beta 2 public preview.
>
> Have seen people here saying that you can install it as a Dual boot
> with your current XP system. However the MS beta preview page says it
> can only be installed Clean or as an upgrade to XP. Dual boot is not
> mentioned as an option.
>

Well, realize that installing on an empty drive on a partition other
than your XP partition, IS a "Clean" install. That particular type of
"Clean" install will give you a dual-boot installation. It works quite
well. "Dual boot" and "Clean install" are most definitely not mutually
exclusive.

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