Vista - Install vista on partition f

can I do this? the upgrade advisor can see only partition C which has Win XP
loaded.
Thanks, art

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 )

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"art76" <art76@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> can I do this? the upgrade advisor can see only partition C which has Win
> XP
> loaded.
> Thanks, art

"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
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> 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!
>
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> "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

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.
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"art76" <art76@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> "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

"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
> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
> "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
>

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
>> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
>> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
>> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
>> "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
>>

art76 wrote:

> can I do this? the upgrade advisor can see only partition C which has Win
> XP loaded.
> Thanks, art

Do what now? Perhaps asking a complete question would help. Here's some
pointers: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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Sometimes if you want to help, its worth extra effort to figure out the
question. I had a similar issue, Upgrade Advisor was only recognizing C:
none of other partitions with enough free space to install Vista.
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"Paul Johnson" <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote in message
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> art76 wrote:
>
>> can I do this? the upgrade advisor can see only partition C which has Win
>> XP loaded.
>> Thanks, art
>
> Do what now? Perhaps asking a complete question would help. Here's some
> pointers: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
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> Paul Johnson
> Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca
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I've got that as well - I guess it's a bug then )

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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!

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"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Sometimes if you want to help, its worth extra effort to figure out the
> question. I had a similar issue, Upgrade Advisor was only recognizing C:
> none of other partitions with enough free space to install Vista.
> --
> --
> Andre
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> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
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>
> "Paul Johnson" <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote in message
> news:ija2k3-er3.ln1@ursine.ca...
>> art76 wrote:
>>
>>> can I do this? the upgrade advisor can see only partition C which has
>>> Win
>>> XP loaded.
>>> Thanks, art
>>
>> Do what now? Perhaps asking a complete question would help. Here's some
>> pointers: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>>
>> --
>> Paul Johnson
>> Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca
>> Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
>
>

Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:

> Sometimes if you want to help, its worth extra effort to figure out the
> question.

They should help us help them. It's not like we're being paid to help them.

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