Add space in Virtual PC to upgrade WinXP to Vista?

[Guest]

Greetings...

I've successfully installed Vista RC1 into a Virtual PC (VPC) as a clean
install. Now I'd like to try upgrading a WinXP SP2 VPC installation to Vista.

I think the host hard drive has lots of space for the VPC to expand;
however, Vista says there isn't enough space to upgrade an installation of
WinXP SP2.

How can I increase the amount of space in the Virtual PC WinXP installation
to install Vista? Should I change from a dynamically expanding VPC to a
fix-size VPC or ???

Many thanks for any suggestions.

Cheers, Stephen

 

[Guest]

Hello...

The apparent answer, from the Virtual PC newsgroup, is that space/size
cannot be increased once the VPC has been created -- default size is
something like 16GB. My choices are to create a new WinXP VPC which is larger
or remove some of the programs on the current WinXP VPC in order to do a
Vista upgrade.

Cheers...

 

[Guest]

Hello again...

My workaround for this challenge is to NOT enter a Product Key when the
initial start installation begins, which then leads to a choice screen of
approximately eight different versions of Vista which, I assume, provide
more/less features.

I chose a version that would upgrade WinXP but didn't reguire a full
installation.

If I understand things correctly a regular installation with Product Key has
to be activated in 3-days while one without a Product Key has 14-days. I
assume I can insert the Product Key somewhere/later given another posting in
this forum.

Cheers...

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

Hello again...

My workaround for this challenge is to NOT enter a Product Key when the
initial start installation begins, which then leads to a choice screen of
approximately eight different versions of Vista which, I assume, provide
more/less features.

I chose a version that would upgrade WinXP but didn't reguire a full
installation.

If I understand things correctly a regular installation with Product Key
has
to be activated in 3-days while one without a Product Key has 14-days. I
assume I can insert the Product Key somewhere/later given another posting
in
this forum.

Cheers...

It depends...

If your Product Key was received from the CPP, it will only activate Vista
Ultimate. If you install a different version, you must have a Product Key
for that version, or it will not activate, and consequently, bad things will
happen. Not "cats sleeping with dogs" bad, but bad nonetheless.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Mark... I'm seeing exactly what you are saying. Anyway I'll have a
couple of weeks to look at the upgrade before it is toast. fwiw the clean
install seems faster than the upgrade and will be an more pleasant view of
Vista.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Mark... I agree with your comments. fwiw the clean install seems
faster, so I will focus on it in my look at Vista.