Would like clean install RC1 on external WD 300gb-internal has XP

[Guest]

Has anyone done this successfully? Installing RC1 to an external drive while
the internal drive contains 2 other OS's (in my case XP & Ubuntu). The
bootmanager is GRUB. Would Vista replace GRUB with it's own? I would use
the RC1 DVD as boot & create a partition on the external WD. The Western
Digital only contains backups at the moment.

Or would I be jeopardizing my 1) backups and 2) current ability to dual boot
XP and Ubuntu? I wonder too if the vista operation would be slow since it's
on a USB connected drive? If it wouldn't be slow, I could move the backup
info to another drive for safekeeping so the install would have the whole
drive to itself partitioned of course.

I've seen reports in other newsgroups of having their dual boots wiped out
(some doing repair to get it back), but they all installed Vista to the dual
boot drive; in this case the install drive is external and separate. The
internal 100gb drive has 3 partitions, XP (NTFS) 35gb freespace, Ubuntu
(FAT32) has 29gb free, and Linux Ext 3 19 free. External has 260gb free and
could accomodate the OS much better than squeezing onto the internal drive.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts!!!

 

[Tom Scales]

Has anyone done this successfully? Installing RC1 to an external drive
while
the internal drive contains 2 other OS's (in my case XP & Ubuntu). The
bootmanager is GRUB. Would Vista replace GRUB with it's own? I would use
the RC1 DVD as boot & create a partition on the external WD. The Western
Digital only contains backups at the moment.

Or would I be jeopardizing my 1) backups and 2) current ability to dual
boot
XP and Ubuntu? I wonder too if the vista operation would be slow since
it's
on a USB connected drive? If it wouldn't be slow, I could move the backup
info to another drive for safekeeping so the install would have the whole
drive to itself partitioned of course.

I've seen reports in other newsgroups of having their dual boots wiped out
(some doing repair to get it back), but they all installed Vista to the
dual
boot drive; in this case the install drive is external and separate. The
internal 100gb drive has 3 partitions, XP (NTFS) 35gb freespace, Ubuntu
(FAT32) has 29gb free, and Linux Ext 3 19 free. External has 260gb free
and
could accomodate the OS much better than squeezing onto the internal
drive.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts!!!

As far as I have read here, Vista will not install on an external drive