Windows XP to Vista

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I was wondering if there is a way to load Vista on without losing the My
Documents Folder and its contents. Any help would be grately appreciated.
 
|>I was wondering if there is a way to load Vista on without losing the My
|>Documents Folder and its contents. Any help would be grately appreciated.

Dual boot it. You don't want Beta as your main OS.
 
NikoTech said:
I was wondering if there is a way to load Vista on without losing the My
Documents Folder and its contents. Any help would be grately appreciated.
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Vista is a *beta* product.

Beta means that it is too full of bugs to be released.

Do not repeat do not risk installing beta software of any kind on a
production system unless you have adequate backups and are prepared to
wipe out the whole thing and start over using those backups.

An upgrade installation from Windows XP is one of the supported
options in the public version of Windows Vista beta 2. However it is
likely to be a "dead end" as you may not be able to upgrade beta 2 to
the final released version of Windows Vista and the beta 2 version has
an expiry date of June 1, 2007, meaning that it will become totally
unusable as of that date.

Proceed at your peril.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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When you install Vista, run setup from within Windows XP. You will need a second hard drive/partition available for the installation. Choose Custom install from the setup menu and point it to the partition/drive you want Vista installed to.
 
And if your drive is not already partitioned you will have to boot from the
Vista DVD to create one.

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When you install Vista, run setup from within Windows XP. You will need a
second hard drive/partition available for the installation. Choose Custom
install from the setup menu and point it to the partition/drive you want
Vista installed to.

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Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
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Unfortunately, Vista will extend an existing partition (increase space, if there's space available), but it won't compact one to make room for a new partition, unless I've missed something.
 
NikoTech said:
I was wondering if there is a way to load Vista on without losing the My
Documents Folder and its contents. Any help would be grately appreciated.
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I would advise against installing this beta product on a partition you
want to keep.


At least make a backup of your stuff first.
 
: How do I go about that?

Best to back up your "My Documents" folder and all contained externally
before you start anything on that question.

Got a spare partition? Ideally a spare computer which out spec's your WinXP
machine, and install it on that.

- Winux P

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While your mileage may vary, numerous reports from the field indicate
that, for once, Microsoft may have overestimated their minimum
requirements, at least with the Vista Basic (no Aero to minimal Aero
features enabled). So if you're not after the eye candy, it may still
work on older machines. Then again, why use Vista if you can't have the
eye candy. But remember, YMMV, different hardware reacts differently to
any software, particularly something as low level as an OS so what
works for me, may not work as well for you.

Jonathan
 
When you install Vista, run setup from within Windows XP. You will need a
second hard drive/partition available for the installation. Choose Custom
install from the setup menu and point it to the partition/drive you want
Vista installed to.

How about a second drive? Possible?


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Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart
Display\Security
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
 
=?Utf-8?B?Tmlrb1RlY2g=?= said:
I was wondering if there is a way to load Vista on without losing the My
Documents Folder and its contents. Any help would be grately appreciated.
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Vista is NOT a current MS OS. For BETA questions, please contact
Microsoft.
 
NikoTech said:
How do I go about that?

Niko
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Please don't take this the wrong way, as I truly mean no offense. If
you lack the knowledge and experience to create a dual-boot
configuration using 2 Microsoft operating systems, you really aren't
ready to install and use a beta (not-ready-for-prime-time, for testing
only) operating system, unless you have a separate computer you can
dedicate to the purpose.


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Yes, more than possible. You can choose a physical disk or a partition on the same disk.
 
A fair size drive is dirt cheap. The bother of partitioning and hoping for
no dumb mistakes is not worth the bother unless there is no physical room in
the tower.


Yes, more than possible. You can choose a physical disk or a partition on
the same disk.

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Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart
Display\Security
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
 
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