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    Has anyone tried a Vista Upgrade clean install

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Micall5, Mar 10, 2007.

  1. Micall5

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    Micall5, Mar 10, 2007
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    This is what I plan on doing too. When we do upgrade to Vista do you think it's worth it to take off the XP recovery partition? Also, do you think it'd be worth it to take off the QuickPlay Partition as well?
     
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    if u take the quickplay partition then you wont be able to use it again, although there is yet to be a fix to get it to work with vista.

    I have a dual boot system, XP and Vista and the quickplay works fine.
     
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  4. Micall5

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    Well... I'm hoping that the upgrade will have several of the fixes on the disk itself. Fingers crossed with doubts...
     
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    I used a retail copy to do a clean install, without activating, then changed the Product Key to the one on the express upgrade. Then activated. It works.
     
    lamegaptop, Mar 18, 2007
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    That's how I set up my dual boot DV9000T. Boot from disk load OS without key on partition. Run setup from Vista. Reinstall OS using Key on package. Activate, update, use. Clean Install.
     
    D.B.Cooper, Mar 18, 2007
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    Yeah, it works fine. You actually have two choices on the second install. You can either perform an in-place upgrade, or choose to do another clean install (both launched from within Windows). If you choose to do another clean install, it will go faster and move your existing windows directory to windows.old, which can then be deleted. If you choose in-place upgrade, the upgrade takes quite awhile, but you don't have extraneous files to delete when you're done. If you are installing Vista-64, I would avoid the upgrade route though. It acts like it's going fine, then after an hour or so, when it's "finalizing" the upgrade it produces an error, and reverts back to the old installation. Or at least that's what it did to me on two different systems.
     
    JadedRaverLA, Mar 18, 2007
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    I actually did the clean install first then the upgrade second. Had to upgrade a few drivers but everything is lookin good.
     
    Micall5, Mar 18, 2007
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