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    Vista Premium upgrade question

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by iafzal3, Sep 5, 2007.

  1. iafzal3

    iafzal3 Notebook Evangelist

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    I am debating between a fresh install of Vista Premium or just do an upgrade from Basic to Premium. I got a Vista premium DVD from Dell but my Vostro has basic on it.

    I have 40GB of OS basic, 2 GB of System back and about 70GB of Data partitions.
    Do you know where did the 10GB go?

    Anyway if I do an upgrade and not the fresh install, anyone knows if the OS backup will change? Since the backup is suppose to have what the system came with will it have the Vista Basic even after the upgrade? So what will happen if the system crashes and I have to use the backup to recover. Will I get the Basic or Premium?
     
    iafzal3, Sep 5, 2007
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  2. PhoenixFx

    PhoenixFx Notebook Virtuoso

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    Fresh install is always better than an upgrade.

    A hard disk advertised as 120GB has 120x10^9 bytes. But in actual computing a kilobyte is 1024 not 1000. Therefore 120x10^9 / 1024^3 ~ 111GB (that explains your missing GBs)
     
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