receiving my VISTA HOME Premium upgrade discs. I hear lots of problems with Vista at the moment, hopefully most of the Vista bugs will be ironed out soon. I have 2 NTFS partition on my current 250GB Sata hard drive as drive C: and a Drive D:. My question is would i be able to load VISTA in the D partition and leave my XP as is on the Drive C:. Will i be able to pick which Windows OS i want to use at boot up.
2007-03-21 13:42:39 · 5 answers · asked by roopali b 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Short and easy answer based on information provided: No.
You said you were receiving UPGRADE discs. These are different then regular (full install) discs. If you are going to use an upgrade disc, it will install Vista ontop of XP, and you simply won't be able to have both. If you want to do a dual-boot situation where you can pick either xp or vista, you will need a full install package which is more expensive.
2007-03-29 04:26:41 · answer #1 · answered by the big jerm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The deal with PC manufacturers & the free Vista upgrade is that as soon as you install the upgrade your previous MCE activation will become invalid.
Odds are that the special Vista DVD they send you will prompt you for the XP MCE OEM key.
So long as you disable all updates on the Microsoft website for MCE it will remain active, however, once the Microsoft server detects that your MCE key has been used to activate Vista the XP MCE will be deemed invalid.
Call your PC manufacturer to find out if you can return to MCE after installing & activating Vista (if you don't like it).
There are certainly workarounds but you will have to find those yourself since providing such info is a violation here on Yahoo Answers.
regards,
Phiip T
2007-03-21 20:55:11 · answer #2 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would need to change the bios setting at boot up. All the fixes for Vista will be on-line not on the disk - plus file structure will be different on the two drives.
2007-03-29 06:15:24 · answer #3 · answered by pilot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes no problem to do as such just follow install instruction when load vista.
2007-03-21 20:47:05 · answer #4 · answered by ulayhere 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I know you can choose your version of windows you want to boot-up
2007-03-29 01:39:35 · answer #5 · answered by jaxjag101 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋