Advice for installation

[Jim Fraas]

Like many people here,I am patiently awaiting the release of the public
beta.
I have done some heavy partioning in anticipation of its release. (In the
Windows 98 and XP public betas (actually consumer preview programs) ,I just
installed as a full upgrade and ran the Beta OS exclusively (In 98 I even
upgraded to RTM FROM the Beta {I DID REformat a few months later for reasons
NOT relating to the upgrade)

For Vista I chose instead to do partitions: Here is how they stand at the
moment

C: is currently for windows XP (80 gigs)
D: is my music file folder (I have Napster to go and also store selected
music files from my personal CD collection here) (40 gigs,the size of my WMA
player)
E: is labeled documents and other files "My Documents" is here,along with
the storage of all downloaded programs. (60 gigs)
F: is the DVD burner drive
G: is a 50 gig empty drive reserved for my Windows Vista installation
H: is a 10 gig drive in which I have backups of my Windows XP installation
files. I have well over 6 gigs free here and i instend to store the Vitsta
install files here


I have read thjat it is best to run Setup (for Vista) from WITHIN XP.
My questions:

a) If I reinstall Napster from within Vista (custom) will it read my files
on the current D drive?
b) will I be able to access the documents folder within E from Vista without
effecting access to it within XP?
cI) What Virus scanning program would be best to run wthin Vista?
cII) What about McaFee within XP just scanning the G drive?
d) Would i be able to install just Home Premium as opposed to just Ultimate?

My other plans come January would be to backup all my other data files to
other partions oand/or Blank DVDs ,then repatitioning C and G into one drive
prior to running Setup on the RTM version of Vista.

Advice?

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

I have read thjat it is best to run Setup (for Vista) from WITHIN XP

Its less hackling than booting off the DVD, I notice Vista setup tends to
ask for drivers to load if you boot from the disk when installing on
partition. Sometimes you have to launch a command window using Shift + F10
and use diskpart to create a partition restart the system and restart
setup. If you launch from within XP you can simply select the partition
you created for Vista and be good to go.

a) If I reinstall Napster from within Vista (custom) will it read my files
on the current D drive?

Yes, I am able to access my other partitions from Vista without any
problems, that is unless you specifically placed permissions on those
drives for reading and writing to.

b) will I be able to access the documents folder within E from Vista without
effecting access to it within XP?

Well, did you make your files private from XP? If you did, you probably
won't be able to access them, you will get an error saying you don't have
permission to access this drive or folder.

cI) What Virus scanning program would be best to run wthin Vista?

CA recently released a version of their eTrust utilty for Vista BETA 2:

http://www3.ca.com/press/PressRelease.aspx?CID=88876
http://www.my-etrust.com/Microsoft/vista/default.aspx
here are 2 others:
Avast 4.7 32-bit
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

https://www.trendbeta.com/index.php?get=80
run "Bcdedit.exe /set nointegritychecks ON" from an elevated command prompt
on Vista x64 (Thanks Barb Bowman for the tip)

cII) What about McaFee within XP just scanning the G drive?

Should be safe, just don't make it delete or quarantine anything since the
AV might consider certain files on the Vista partition foreign and
suspect.

d) Would i be able to install just Home Premium as opposed to just Ultimate?

Depends on the product key you receive, that determins the Edition of
Windows Vista installed. Right now, that has not been specified which
Editions will be made available for testing.

My other plans come January would be to backup all my other data files to
other partions oand/or Blank DVDs ,then repatitioning C and G into one drive
prior to running Setup on the RTM version of Vista.

 

[Jim Fraas]

I have read thjat it is best to run Setup (for Vista) from WITHIN XP

That sounds good. Should I extract the ISO file to the G drive (where i will
be installing Vista to) or the H drive (reserved for backups for thoe OS
software)?

a) If I reinstall Napster from within Vista (custom) will it read my files
on the current D drive?

b) will I be able to access the documents folder within E from Vista
without
effecting access to it within XP?

Since I have not made ANY files private ,this means i should be OK here.
Would it be OK to make my "Documents" folder within vista the SAME
E:\Documents that I use now,or should i have a seperate one?

cI) What Virus scanning program would be best to run wthin Vista?
http://www3.ca.com/press/PressRelease.aspx?CID=88876
http://www.my-etrust.com/Microsoft/vista/default.aspx
here are 2 others:
Avast 4.7 32-bit
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

https://www.trendbeta.com/index.php?get=80
run "Bcdedit.exe /set nointegritychecks ON" from an elevated command
prompt
on Vista x64 (Thanks Barb Bowman for the tip)

cII) What about McaFee within XP just scanning the G drive?

I use Mcafee in an OEM version provided by Comcast. I have asked them about
IE7 compatability. Do you know if there is any beta versions for Vista they
may be working on,and how could i access them?

 

[Peter]

If I may chip in here... I'm a MOD at McAfeehelp.com - there are no
officially compatible products for Vista as yet, however I believe that the
beta Viruscan 8.5i works (you'll find it under corporate beta products.

Also read here:
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?subcats/applications/antivirus

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

That sounds good. Should I extract the ISO file to the G drive (where i will
be installing Vista to) or the H drive (reserved for backups for thoe OS
software)?

Don't extract the ISO to the destination on which you install Vista.
Choose the drive from which you launch setup or another partition other
than G.

Since I have not made ANY files private ,this means i should be OK here.
Would it be OK to make my "Documents" folder within vista the SAME
E:\Documents that I use now,or should i have a seperate one?

No problems doing so, just right click Computer on the Start menu after
installing Vista > click Properties > Location > click 'Find Target"
navigate to the E: drive and select the Documents folder under your
account.

I use Mcafee in an OEM version provided by Comcast. I have asked them about
IE7 compatability. Do you know if there is any beta versions for Vista they
may be working on,and how could i access them?

Here is a BETA version of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i BETA Refresh - I
don't think it fully supports beta 2 of Vista, since the actual BETA 2 of
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i BETA Refresh, is not expected until June 5
2006 - tomorrow.

http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/downloads/beta/beta_mcafee/vse.html
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[Jim Fraas]

That sounds good. Should I extract the ISO file to the G drive (where i
will
be installing Vista to) or the H drive (reserved for backups for thoe OS
software)?

sounds like a plan. Although i will probobly also burn a DVD i will probobly
extract it to H : \Vista
reboot then run H:\vista\setup

Since I have not made ANY files private ,this means i should be OK here.
Would it be OK to make my "Documents" folder within vista the SAME
E:\Documents that I use now,or should i have a seperate one?

This is good.

I use Mcafee in an OEM version provided by Comcast. I have asked them
about
IE7 compatability. Do you know if there is any beta versions for Vista
they
may be working on,and how could i access them?
http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/downloads/beta/beta_mcafee/vse.html

Noted for reference when the Vista prublic beta comes out.