Upgrading to Vista Question?

Question

I'm thinking of going to upgrade my computer to Windows Vista, the only thing is that i have Windows Xp Professional and one of my Hard Drive setup is a Dynamic Hard Drive, If i upgraded to Vista Home Premium will my hard drive still be there or will it not show up.. b.c i read that only vista enterprise and ultimate supports dynamic hard drive.

Answer 1

Don't upgrade to vista.

Keep XP, it's good.

I had vista and the experience was too bad.

Now i am back to XP

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Richard is wrong, vista does not require 2 gigs of RAM or 4 gig USB zip stick permanently added to a port. Thats not true.

Vista Ultimate even worked on my laptop which is Celeron, 512 MB ram.

Thing is vista suck big time.

If you want to change the whole look of your system and make it look like vista then i can recommend you sometihng great which i am using right now.

Go to:

http://www.crystalxp.net/bricopack/en.htm

And download "Vista inspirat 2"

Install it and you will find your xp transformed in to vista. There has been more then 2 million downloads of this pack. It's way too cool. You will even forget original vista.

Best of all, its FREE.

Answer 2

Before you consider this upgrade, there are some dirty secrets about Windows Vista you should know about.

As far as Vista goes? I say absolutely DO NOT upgrade unless you buy or build a new computer. Even then, I probably still wouldn't go that way at this time. It's too much of a pig; obviously, it needs 2 gigs of RAM and it needs a 4 gig USB zip stick permanently added to a port, just to help on the boot up. (Windows Jump Start) You need a video card, while not a heavy card, just a few years ago it was considered a gamer card. It also needs a dual core processor to run as fast as XP is on a single. All this just for an OS?

I say new machine because most peoples older machines won't match the criteria I mention above without a serious upgrade. And, software drivers for your old equipment is virtually non-existent. Many printer companies, in a push to get you to buy new printers, aren't supporting Vista on many of their older model printers. Lexmark being the worst offender.

The publics reception for Vista has been so poor, Microsoft has made a new batch of XP CD's because Vista is hurting sales of new PC's. Many PC manufacture's (including Dell) now offer PC's with Vista, XP, Linux, or no OS at all. This is all due to Vista.

Answer 3

I had XP and i upgraded to home premium vista...I would do it....vista is great and has some cool featues and styles. Save all your hard disk on a super storage device like an iPod video and then transfer...that's what i done!