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| | install on usb drive My C drive has about 16 megs of free space and I also have a USB drive with about 70 megs of free space. I have two questions. If I were to install vista on the C drive would I have to create a new partition to duel boot? Secondly, could I install to the USB drive and dual boot? |
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| | Re: install on usb drive So far, the Beta's do not support booting to a USB drive. Who knows about future versions of windows, but I do not believe Vista will be able to be run from a USB drive. -- Jason http://www.orderpcs4free.com/?r=878 "Martin deLivron" <m.delivron@comcast.net> wrote in message news:%23dnRRUygGHA.1324@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > My C drive has about 16 megs of free space and I also have a USB drive > with about 70 megs of free space. I have two questions. If I were to > install vista on the C drive would I have to create a new partition to > duel boot? Secondly, could I install to the USB drive and dual boot? > |
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| | Re: install on usb drive OK, I'm hoping you actually mean GB's instead of MB's because "megs" are much smaller than "gigs" )Yeh you'd have to partition your C: drive to have a dual boot setup going, however if you were to split the 16GB into two sets of 8GB, then this isn't enough. Try and free up some space, so that you've got 15GB at least on a single partition to install Vista onto. Not too sure about booting onto a flash drive - don't think this can be done to be honest. -- 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 :-- "Martin deLivron" <m.delivron@comcast.net> wrote in message news:%23dnRRUygGHA.1324@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > My C drive has about 16 megs of free space and I also have a USB drive > with about 70 megs of free space. I have two questions. If I were to > install vista on the C drive would I have to create a new partition to > duel boot? Secondly, could I install to the USB drive and dual boot? > |
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| | Re: install on usb drive That must be a magical drive, since Vista currently requires 10 GBs of free disk space to install on a hard disk. Windows Vista currently does not support booting or installing on USB based external drives. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta "Martin deLivron" <m.delivron@comcast.net> wrote in message news:%23dnRRUygGHA.1324@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > My C drive has about 16 megs of free space and I also have a USB drive > with about 70 megs of free space. I have two questions. If I were to > install vista on the C drive would I have to create a new partition to > duel boot? Secondly, could I install to the USB drive and dual boot? > |
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| | Re: install on usb drive sorry ment GB "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%23kDO8dzgGHA.5064@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > That must be a magical drive, since Vista currently requires 10 GBs of > free disk space to install on a hard disk. Windows Vista currently does > not support booting or installing on USB based external drives. > -- > -- > Andre > Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com > Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com > Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre > http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta > > "Martin deLivron" <m.delivron@comcast.net> wrote in message > news:%23dnRRUygGHA.1324@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> My C drive has about 16 megs of free space and I also have a USB drive >> with about 70 megs of free space. I have two questions. If I were to >> install vista on the C drive would I have to create a new partition to >> duel boot? Secondly, could I install to the USB drive and dual boot? >> > > |
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