Installing vista on e1705

I am going to be installing Vista on a brand new hard drive I will be getting within the next couple of days. I have a Dell OEM disc that I got as part of the Express Upgrade program last year. Is there any gotchas that I should be aware of? In what order do you recommend that I install the drivers in?

P.S. - I am aware that If I want to use Media Direct that I will have to use the MD3 install disc which I already have.

 

The Express Upgrade is as it sounds. It's an upgrade disc it's not the full version you have to have a previous version of Windows installed.
Which does suck.

 

Actually I know the workaround so it isn't as bad as it sounds and Microsoft acknowledged it already and doesn't intend to change it.

Install once without key and make sure to pick correct edition (Home Premium for me)...
Install again using in-place upgrade (start installation within Vista)
Use key during second installation if prompted. Vista will accept the key since you are using a valid upgrade path.

This should workaround any issue. If I have to I have a Non-Upgrade Ultimate Edition Retail key but I'd rather not use it right now if I don't have to. If I did then I would install the 64-bit version and use that since I have a 64-bit processor in the laptop. I still would have a difficult time explaining why I need to re-activate it again for the 10th time in 2 weeks with this time on new hardware. The last 9 times was all on the VM using identical hardware however the first one of those 9 were a transfer from physical hardware to virtual hardware.

I still need to know the order to install drivers if necessary.

P.S. - In case you were wondering why I didn't want to use the Ultimate license key.... The Ultimate edition key is licensed for use in a virtualized environment. Home Premium which is my OEM key is not.