Installing Windows Vista The Florida Connection <swifty945[ at ]yahoo.com> 5/23/2007 2:54:39 AM Does anyone know if I can upgrade my Windows XP to Vista and install it to a new hard drive other than the one XP is running on? I think the drive is dying and I have a new one installed and formatted but clean.

Re: Installing Windows Vista XS11E <xs11eNO[ at ]SPAMyahoo.com> 5/23/2007 3:12:36 AM The Florida Connection <swifty945[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > Does anyone know if I can upgrade my Windows XP to Vista and install > it to a new hard drive other than the one XP is running on? I think > the drive is dying and I have a new one installed and formatted but > clean. If you want to upgrade you'll have to move your XP installation to the new harddrive, make sure everything is working alright, then remove the old harddrive and upgrade the XP install on the new HD. Personally, I wouldn't do it. I'd save/backup everything you want to keep on the old harddrive, maybe do an image of it or save everything to a partition on the new harddrive (NOT the first partition, that'll be your C: partition when Vista is installed), and then remove the old drive. Install the new harddrive, install Vista clean and then move the files you wanted to save from the backup to the new harddrive.

Re: Installing Windows Vista "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst[ at ]msn.com> 5/23/2007 4:38:48 AM I agree with XS11E that the simplest thing to do is to use the Windows Easy Transfer wizard on the Vista dvd to save your files and settings to intermediate storage. Then remove the XP drive and replace it with your good second drive and install Vista from scratch. Afterwards use the WET wizard to restore your files and settings and then reinstall those apps which are Vista compatible. If you simply install Vista on the second drive now you will not have a bootable computer after you remove the XP drive because the Vista boot files will be written there and not on the second drive even though the second drive is where you will have installed Vista. While there are fixes for this it is not a trivial task. Of course you can still remove the XP drive and reinstall XP on the good drive and then upgrade that to Vista if you are more comfortable doing that way but there is no compelling need for the extra steps. "The Florida Connection" <swifty945[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1179888879.702155.34910[ at ]g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > Does anyone know if I can upgrade my Windows XP to Vista and install > it to a new hard drive other than the one XP is running on? I think > the drive is dying and I have a new one installed and formatted but > clean. >

Re: Installing Windows Vista "John Barnes" <jbarnes[ at ]email.net> 5/25/2007 1:23:48 PM If you are posting to the correct group, you will have to do a clean install of Vista as XP64 is not upgradable to Vista64. "The Florida Connection" <swifty945[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1179888879.702155.34910[ at ]g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > Does anyone know if I can upgrade my Windows XP to Vista and install > it to a new hard drive other than the one XP is running on? I think > the drive is dying and I have a new one installed and formatted but > clean. >