'Vista upgrade advisor' query

[Michael Shergold]

Why does this advisor assume that the only available hardisk space is that
in my primary XP partition?
It report to me that I have only 5.72 Gbytes available and therefore not
enough to upgrade; but I have 15GB free in partition C and many more Gig in
other partitions of my 30 and 60Gig hardrives and my 300Gig USB drive.
Michael in sunny Sussex, England

 

[JS]

Most like because Vista upgrade will install to the partition where Windows
XP is installed.
Other partitions may be Extended partitions with 'Logical Drives' and
therefore not bootable.

JS

 

[peter]

Because it assumes that it will replace XP on the C drive.......if all else
is fine then you can try Vista.
But I would be setting it up for dual boot with XP...........which I did
initially but now run it on my spare system exclusively.
Build 5744 works great....no major problems so far.
good luck
peter