Travis King

I (and we) have said it more than once and we'll say it again. Do not use
Vista on a production machine or a machine with critical data on it. MS
even says so. If you really insist on using Vista on a production machine,
you should at least install it on a separate partition or a different hard
drive. Even doing so, I personally still recommend you backup your data
before you get started just to be on the safe side. We also do not
recommend that you do an upgrade install of Vista, but rather a clean
install. (If you're upgrading from XP.) Heck, to this day, I still
recommend doing a clean install when upgrading to XP from an older OS. When
you're installing a new operating system (especially a beta), you should
always expect to run into problems, (and yes, especially driver related) and
you'll just never know what they will be until you actually run into them.
The Upgrade Advisor is only going to give you a very basic idea of what will
work and what will not.
"Darren" <Darren@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F3841F2B-DFB1-4579-A78B-3320C34C35A6@microsoft.com...
> Hi. I am very frustrated and disappointed. Not only can't I get my DVD
> player and burner to work (can't install drivers) but the whole system is
> slow and choppy. Now I have no way of backing up my many gigs of media
> and I
> can't uninstall Vista! Any ideas anybody?