Mike,
Your response is great. I was pretty sure that was what was needed. The
specs on the laptop are:Operating System C1 2
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Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic (32-bit version)
Processor and Chipset3
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Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor T2330
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1.60GHz, 1 MB L2, 533MHz FSB
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Mobile Intel® GL960 Express Chipset
Memory4
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Configured with 1024MB PC5300 DDR2 SDRAM (both memory slots may be
occupied). Maximum capacity 2048MB
Hard Disk Drive5
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120GB (5400 RPM); Serial ATA hard disk drive
Fixed Optical Disk Drive6
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DVD SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) drive supporting 11 formats
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Maximum speed and compatibility: CD-ROM (24x), CD-R (24x), CD-RW (16x),
DVD-ROM (8x), DVD-R (Single Layer, (8x)), DVD-R (Double Layer, (4x)), DVD-RW
(6x), DVD+R (Single Layer, (8x)), DVD+R (Double Layer, (4x)), DVD+RW (8x),
DVD-RAM (5x)
Display7
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15.4†diagonal widescreen TruBrite®TFT LCD display at 1280x800 native
resolution (WXGA)
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Native support for 720p content
Graphics8
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Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 with 128MB-251MB dynamically
allocated shared graphics memory
NOT a high-end machine, but I am going to add another Gig of RAM before I do
the clean install.
Do you know if there will be any SATA drive issues? The windows
compatibility chart shows that the hard drive "Will work with Vista". Which
it certainly does with Home Basic.
"Mick Murphy" wrote:
> Basic Home and Home Premium are not an upgrade path to Business.
> You back up your data, delete the existing vista partition, format, and do a
> compleate clean install
>
> Before you do this, make sure that your laptop has at least 1Gig of RAM, and
> 128MBs of Graphics, and that is the bare minimum!
>
> What are your system specs?
> You don't get high-end hardware specs with Vista Basic.
> --
> Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia
>
>
> "cacruiser" wrote:
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> > I have a new Toshiba laptop with Vista Home Basic pre-installed. I want to
> > upgrade to Vista Business. The system easily meets the min specs. Will I
> > have to track down drivers for this change or should Business have enough
> > included? I understand that at the least I will have to do a Clean Install.
> > Has anyone done this type of change?