Also, here is some additional information from R.C. White about booting from
the disk and changes that setup will apply:
"Hi, Andre.
You might want to remind Jeff that if he launches Vista Setup from within
WinXP, Vista will "inherit" the drive letters he is using in WinXP. (He can
set those in WinXP's Disk Management if he hasn't already.)
If he boots from the DVD to run Setup, then Vista will probably assign the
letter C: to the volume where he says to install Vista. Maybe that's what
he wants, but many users have been confused by the fact that Vista is now on
C: and what they've always known as C: is now D: - or something else - but
only when they are running Vista, not when they are running WinXP. All this
doesn't confuse the computer, but it discombobulates some humans!
RC"
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"art76" <art76@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
>
>> If you understood all of that Art, you are really good. Windows Vista's
>> setup has been simplified, the setup routine is very easy, if you have
>> burnt
>> the ISO image to a blank DVD, you can simply start the installation from
>> within Windows XP or by booting from the DVD (make sure your boot drive
>> is
>> set to your DVD drive winthin the BIOS), type in your product key, accept
>> the license agreement, choose Custom Upgrade > select the dedicated
>> partition you created for Vista (F
, and click next and setup will
>> finish
>> the rest. Your computer will restart a couple times.
>>
>> Also, make sure the minimum hard disk space you have free is at least 15
>> GBs, 500 MBs on the C: drive if you launch setup from within XP. I
>> noticed
>> that the upgrade advisor did not take into account other partitions that
>> might be on the computer, only the route drive, so thats something to
>> think
>> about, if it failed your computer. Its best you do a manual check to make
>> you can run Vista.
>> --
>> Andre
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>> "art76" <art76@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6A1CE4D4-8802-4A84-9417-273F3E682D5E@microsoft.com...
>> >
>> >
>> > "Zack Whittaker" wrote:
>> >
>> >> If you burn to disk and enable the booting thingy in it (you can do it
>> >> via
>> >> Nero), and install from boot - you can customise it much better,
>> >> partitions
>> >> and the lot 
)
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Zack Whittaker
>> >> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
>> >> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
>> >> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
>> >> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
>> >> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so,
>> >> and
>> >> not
>> >> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we
>> >> cleared
>> >> that up!
>> >>
>> >> --: Original message follows :--
>> >> "art76" <art76@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:AF3FADFB-1BA3-4C3E-B2CB-91D6AA5D77AC@microsoft.com...
>> >> > can I do this? the upgrade advisor can see only partition C which
>> >> > has
>> >> > Win
>> >> > XP
>> >> > loaded.
>> >> > Thanks, art
>> >>
>> >>
>> > Thanks Jack! and I appreciate the bunch of stuff you've taught me over
>> > the
>> > years. Art
>>
>> Actually, Andre I was headed for google with: vista dvd activate boot.
>> Analysis of all above: Andre BEATS google!!!Thanks again guys. Cant wait
>> for B2. art
>>