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John T

04-17-2007 10:27:37




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After a ton of work n phone calls last week (I upgraded to Vista just cuz I got a free disc), Im convinced the best way to install Windows Vista is a COMPLETE CLEAN FULL INSTALL NOTTTTT TTTTT T AN UPGRADE FROM XP.

So heres my question:: Is it possible for me to install a fresh clean full Windows Vista on a secondarty back up SATA Hard Drive,,,,, ,,,then get it set up to boot up n run off that secondary HD (by changing the boot configuration prioroty in BIOS),,,,, ,,,,, then install my programs,,,,, ,,,,, ,then copy n paste saved program data off the original SATA Hard Drive,,,,, ,,,then re set things for the old HD to serve as the secondary slave????? ???

I got a new puter with full factory Vista install that runs great, but this one with the Upgrade type install SUCKS. The Vista disk I have allows either a full install or the upgrade from XP option so I wanna run a full install on a second HD then go from there. Yep I already know some programs are incompatible with Vista, thats NOT my problem, its that I wanna try the question I posed above.

John T

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SKK-Big Red Fan

04-17-2007 20:15:24




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to John T, 04-17-2007 10:27:37  
Actually, run the installation with your drives the way they are if you like, but choose upgrade and select the second, D drive. That will put the proper boot files on the secondary drive to boot- up when you switch it to your primary drive. There are some good articles out on the "net" about the process right now.

However, it also is just as easy, probably safer, to switch the jumpers on the drives and install clean on the second drive after you have made it your primary boot drive. Of course you will have to re-install all of your software, but should be able to transfer the data files. Windows verification should be O.K. If all your doing is switching the drives around on the same PC that the upgrade was run on in the first place.

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CNKS

04-17-2007 19:03:49




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to John T, 04-17-2007 10:27:37  
I don't have a clue. Since you have XP and Vista, what is the advantage to Vista?



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JayWalt

04-17-2007 18:09:40




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to John T, 04-17-2007 10:27:37  
I wont be of much help here because I'm of the opinion that vista is another microsoft failure. I'm running 2k and linux. I would still be on NT 4.0 if microsfot didnt stop supporting it. When they stop supporting 2000, I might make a full migration to linux, not sure yet.



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TomH in PA

04-17-2007 17:19:11




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to John T, 04-17-2007 10:27:37  
If you're going to install fresh on the new drive you'd probably be best off disconnecting the drive that has the OS installed now, and make the new one C:

Once everything is installed, reconnect the old drive (it should come up as D: or E:) and copy whatever data you can salvage.



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Randy in NE

04-17-2007 13:00:51




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to John T, 04-17-2007 10:27:37  
You can set it up to have an operating system on both hard drives or you can set one of them up to act as a secondary data drive. In either case you will need to make one of the drives the master drive and the other a slave. This is done with the little jumpers on the hard drive itself. Unless you really need to have both operating systems I would suggest installing Vista on one drive and making the old "C" drive a secondary data drive. This eliminates the dual boot and the boot.ini file. With the old "C" drive as a data drive you can still access any data that still resides on that drive and copy it over to the new hard drive. All Windows applications will need to be reinstalled. This includes all apps that show up in the c:\Program Files folder and any other apps that were installed via Windows.

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IH2444

04-17-2007 15:04:21




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to Randy in NE, 04-17-2007 13:00:51  
All Windows applications will need to be reinstalled. This includes all apps that show up in the c:\Program Files folder and any other apps that were installed via Windows.
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Yep there is the clincher.



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chadd

04-17-2007 11:30:11




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to John T, 04-17-2007 10:27:37  
I am not sure if this will help you or not, but I figured I would mention it. We have an old HP Pavilion that came from the factory with Windows ME, which served okay, but all of a sudden uninstalled every device driver, which from the people I talked to, is not uncommon with that operating system. I decided from that day on, that I wanted to have two operating systems on the computer just in case. So I used a utility on the computer to repartition the hard drive. Even though the computer only has ONE REAL hard drive, I partitioned it to recognize it as TWO SEPARATE, but smaller hard drives. In this way, I was able to keep Windows ME on the C: drive, and then install Windows XP Professional Edition on the second partition, which is now called the D: drive. In this way, one operating system will not overwrite the other, and should one fail, the other will still operate to get the files off in an emergency. Otherwise, your plan sounds like it should work, but you never know with computers. . .

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Ron-MO

04-17-2007 10:39:34




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to John T, 04-17-2007 10:27:37  
I think you are on the right track. I used to do the same thing on an older pc - run two disks with one acting as a data drive, and the other with the OS and programs. Go for it, load the new os on another drive, and switch the config to boot to whichever one you like, or dual boot it for a while. I currently run two disks on my work pc with the secondary one containing all the 'work' files, and stuff I often delete. Another thing I like is the new flash drives. Makes it easy to move things from one pc to another.

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