Windows Vista and Windows 7

[BogdanF]

Hi,
I have installed on my machine ( as OS ) MS Windows Vista Home Premium x64
Service Pack 1 ( Drive E: [ Local Disk ] ).

I want to install on my machine MS Windows 7 Beta ( January build ) but in
another Drive ( D: [ Local Disk ] ). After I finish the installation process,
I want to install all the required drivers ( the same drivers - what I have
installed for Vista ) and maybe some software programs ( as Live Messenger,
Office ).

Can I do this things without to alter my Windows Vista system integrity and
functionality ( because Win 7 I want only for fun and test but Vista will
remain the working system, personal system )? I mean... Can I use Windows 7
from another Drive ( Local Disk ) without to alter anything from the previous
system performance and stability ( of Vista )?

Thank You!

[sorry for my bad english, i think you will understand what i want to say
and know]

 

[Victek]

I have installed on my machine ( as OS ) MS Windows Vista Home Premium x64

Service Pack 1 ( Drive E: [ Local Disk ] ).

I want to install on my machine MS Windows 7 Beta ( January build ) but in
another Drive ( D: [ Local Disk ] ). After I finish the installation
process,
I want to install all the required drivers ( the same drivers - what I
have
installed for Vista ) and maybe some software programs ( as Live
Messenger,
Office ).

Can I do this things without to alter my Windows Vista system integrity
and
functionality ( because Win 7 I want only for fun and test but Vista will
remain the working system, personal system )? I mean... Can I use Windows
7
from another Drive ( Local Disk ) without to alter anything from the
previous
system performance and stability ( of Vista )?

Good question. In the past installing a newer version of Windows to a
different partition results in a dual boot environment, with the newer
Windows handling the boot files. That works fine until you want to remove
the newer version and boot again from the old, which is a difficult and
tricky business in my experience. If you want to avoid a lot of grief I
suggest you create an image of your Windows Vista partition (before
installing Windows 7) so you can restore it if necessary. Another possible
option is to install Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine in Vista. This is
probably what I'll do first just to try it out. Assuming this works I
should think 3 or 4 gigs of ram would be necessary for decent performance.

 

[BogdanF]

Can you tell me a Virtual Machine in Vista what I can use to try Windows 7? (
a tested one, what will work with vista 100% )
I want a software what to be clean, without any malware behaviour ( Virtual
Machine ).

I have installed on my machine ( as OS ) MS Windows Vista Home Premium x64
Service Pack 1 ( Drive E: [ Local Disk ] ).

I want to install on my machine MS Windows 7 Beta ( January build ) but in
another Drive ( D: [ Local Disk ] ). After I finish the installation
process,
I want to install all the required drivers ( the same drivers - what I
have
installed for Vista ) and maybe some software programs ( as Live
Messenger,
Office ).

Can I do this things without to alter my Windows Vista system integrity
and
functionality ( because Win 7 I want only for fun and test but Vista will
remain the working system, personal system )? I mean... Can I use Windows
7
from another Drive ( Local Disk ) without to alter anything from the
previous
system performance and stability ( of Vista )?

Good question. In the past installing a newer version of Windows to a
different partition results in a dual boot environment, with the newer
Windows handling the boot files. That works fine until you want to remove
the newer version and boot again from the old, which is a difficult and
tricky business in my experience. If you want to avoid a lot of grief I
suggest you create an image of your Windows Vista partition (before
installing Windows 7) so you can restore it if necessary. Another possible
option is to install Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine in Vista. This is
probably what I'll do first just to try it out. Assuming this works I
should think 3 or 4 gigs of ram would be necessary for decent performance.

 

[BogdanF]

I found this link
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...02-3199-48a3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6&displaylang=en

Can I use this???

 

[BogdanF]

uh...
well...
"Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit
x86); Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition; Windows Vista Business;
Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows
Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Ultimate; Windows Vista
Ultimate 64-bit edition; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP
Professional x64 Edition ; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition "
And... Home Premium is hidden... why?

 

[John Barnett MVP]

You can use Virtual PC 2007 but it does have some restrictions just like all
Virtual machines. You do need to allocate enough memory to the virtual
machine (so you will need to have 2GB or more on your vista machine to start
with in order to allocate 1GB to Vista and 1GB to Win 7)

Because you would be using a virtual machine you will only have 'basic'
display features. This is because you would be using a virtual video driver
rather than the driver of your graphics card. To illustrate what I mean, if
you installed Vista Home Premium, say to a virtual machine the virtual
machine video driver would not display any Aero features. This is a
limitation on the virtual machine. If this doesn't bother you, which it
doesn't bother most testers who use VMs then by all means use a Virtual
machine. If, on the other hand, you want 'all' features then you would
really need to be looking at a dual boot system.

As Win 7 is built on Vista technology Win 7 uses the same boot files as
Vista so removing the dual boot isn't as difficult as say Windows XP and
Vista.

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Windows XP Associate Expert
Windows Desktop Experience

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[peter]

If you disconnect the Drive that has Vista on it and then install W7 on the
other drive
no boot files will be changed.
You just need the option of picking which drive to boot from when
booting...this can be done by either entering the BIOS
and setting the boot order each time or if your mobo is newer the option is
at times included in the startup procedure
by means of an F11 or F? at boot up brings up the option screen of which
drive to boot from.
pk