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| | How I did it, and it works fine. Here's how I installed Vista on my eMachines T3092 machine with XP Pro SP2, AMD Athlon 3000+ 2.17G Processor, 2 GB Ram, 128MB Video on Nvidia Chipset and 160 GB Seagate Hard Drive. Using Acronis Disk Director I split the hard drive into 2 equal partitions, making the second partition a logical drive and assigned drive letter D: to it. I downloaded the Daemon-Tools Virtual Drive program and mounted the Vista Beta2 ISO image which is stored on a second slave drive in the machine (80GB Western Digital). I selected the second option in the installer to do a clean install, not the upgrade, and choose the new D: drive partition. Install was completed in 30 minutes with only the Audio drivers and Modem drivers not found. It was easy to tell the Hardware wizard to look in the factory drivers folder installed on the C: Drive for the audio and modem drivers. In the Vista 'Advanced System Settings' I selected Advanced > Start Up and Recovery > Settings and selected 'Earlier Version of Windows' as the default operating system. When I boot the computer, if I want to play with Vista I use the down arrow key to select 'Windows' for Vista, otherwise it boots into XP Pro with no problems at all. When I got tired of trying out the Vista Beta, I went to the root of Drive C: and deleted three files put there by the Vista Install, bootmgr, boot.bak and bootsect.bak. Then using the Management Console in XP Pro, I deleted the partition D. My normal XP Pro boot screen appears just fine; I did not need recovery console or the restore CD to continue using XP Pro. No harm was done to the XP installation. I then used Acronis Disk Director to merge the 2 partitions back into one, and you would never know that Vista Beta 2 was on the machine. |
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| | Re: How I did it, and it works fine. Does your system resume from S3 state? If so then lucky you :-) "Happy w/Microsoft " <HappywMicrosoft@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote inmessage news:AAA1E010-388B-445D-9299-8200173AD3F0@microsoft.com... > Here's how I installed Vista on my eMachines T3092 machine with XP Pro > SP2, > AMD Athlon 3000+ 2.17G Processor, 2 GB Ram, 128MB Video on Nvidia Chipset > and > 160 GB Seagate Hard Drive. > > Using Acronis Disk Director I split the hard drive into 2 equal > partitions, > making the second partition a logical drive and assigned drive letter D: > to > it. I downloaded the Daemon-Tools Virtual Drive program and mounted the > Vista > Beta2 ISO image which is stored on a second slave drive in the machine > (80GB > Western Digital). I selected the second option in the installer to do a > clean > install, not the upgrade, and choose the new D: drive partition. Install > was > completed in 30 minutes with only the Audio drivers and Modem drivers not > found. It was easy to tell the Hardware wizard to look in the factory > drivers > folder installed on the C: Drive for the audio and modem drivers. In the > Vista 'Advanced System Settings' I selected > Advanced > Start Up and Recovery > Settings and selected 'Earlier Version > of > Windows' as the default operating system. When I boot the computer, if I > want > to play with Vista I use the down arrow key to select 'Windows' for Vista, > otherwise it boots into XP Pro with no problems at all. > > When I got tired of trying out the Vista Beta, I went to the root of Drive > C: and deleted three files put there by the Vista Install, bootmgr, > boot.bak > and bootsect.bak. Then using the Management Console in XP Pro, I deleted > the > partition D. My normal XP Pro boot screen appears just fine; I did not > need > recovery console or the restore CD to continue using XP Pro. No harm was > done > to the XP installation. I then used Acronis Disk Director to merge the 2 > partitions back into one, and you would never know that Vista Beta 2 was > on > the machine. > |
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| | Re: How I did it, and it works fine. i do not need anything that complicated "droid" wrote: Quote: > Does your system resume from S3 state? If so then lucky you :-) > > "Happy w/Microsoft " <HappywMicrosoft@xxxxxx> wrote in> message news:AAA1E010-388B-445D-9299-8200173AD3F0@xxxxxx Quote: > > Here's how I installed Vista on my eMachines T3092 machine with XP Pro > > SP2, > > AMD Athlon 3000+ 2.17G Processor, 2 GB Ram, 128MB Video on Nvidia Chipset > > and > > 160 GB Seagate Hard Drive. > > > > Using Acronis Disk Director I split the hard drive into 2 equal > > partitions, > > making the second partition a logical drive and assigned drive letter D: > > to > > it. I downloaded the Daemon-Tools Virtual Drive program and mounted the > > Vista > > Beta2 ISO image which is stored on a second slave drive in the machine > > (80GB > > Western Digital). I selected the second option in the installer to do a > > clean > > install, not the upgrade, and choose the new D: drive partition. Install > > was > > completed in 30 minutes with only the Audio drivers and Modem drivers not > > found. It was easy to tell the Hardware wizard to look in the factory > > drivers > > folder installed on the C: Drive for the audio and modem drivers. In the > > Vista 'Advanced System Settings' I selected > > Advanced > Start Up and Recovery > Settings and selected 'Earlier Version > > of > > Windows' as the default operating system. When I boot the computer, if I > > want > > to play with Vista I use the down arrow key to select 'Windows' for Vista, > > otherwise it boots into XP Pro with no problems at all. > > > > When I got tired of trying out the Vista Beta, I went to the root of Drive > > C: and deleted three files put there by the Vista Install, bootmgr, > > boot.bak > > and bootsect.bak. Then using the Management Console in XP Pro, I deleted > > the > > partition D. My normal XP Pro boot screen appears just fine; I did not > > need > > recovery console or the restore CD to continue using XP Pro. No harm was > > done > > to the XP installation. I then used Acronis Disk Director to merge the 2 > > partitions back into one, and you would never know that Vista Beta 2 was > > on > > the machine. > > |
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