2 Vistas on 1 PC?

furman

furman

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Hi,
I want to install Vista Ultimate on my Home Premium PC but the PC manufacturer warranty dept said they will only cover warranty with Vista HP.

I have 3 HDDs installed. I was considering leaving the Vista HP installed on the main HDD and installing Ultimate on the other HDD. Would that work? I haven't tried dual booting for years, would it work with Vista Ultimate and HP? Could I have Vista Ultimate as the main OS?
 
furman said:
Hi,
I want to install Vista Ultimate on my Home Premium PC but the PC manufacturer warranty dept said they will only cover warranty with Vista HP.

I have 3 HDDs installed. I was considering leaving the Vista HP installed on the main HDD and installing Ultimate on the other HDD. Would that work? I haven't tried dual booting for years, would it work with Vista Ultimate and HP? Could I have Vista Ultimate as the main OS?
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I think it should work yes so long as your doing it on a seperate partition or hard drive.
 
Use Norton Ghost to image the existing installation (or acronis true image, or a linux boot cd), then install new vista.
If you ever have to send it back, shove the backup onto it first. Sorted.

Otherwise, yeah you should be able to manage multiple visias (sorry, that would be either Vistae or Visti).
 
Yeah it works perfectly I have both Home Premium + Ultimate installed on the same PC (HP for gaming + Ultimate for Web & Media).

Just install the 2nd OS select another partition and Vista will do the rest and install a boot menu so you can select which one (changeable via the advanced system\startup & recovery tab).
 
I ended up buying Ultimate because I couldn't access the data on my previous PC HDDs as they were created as Dynamic by XP Pro - HP doesn't recognise dynamic. Now I have it I might aswell use it :)

Thanks, I will give it a go tonight.
 
AWPC said:
... (changeable via the advanced system\startup & recovery tab).
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Hi,
I just installed both and it works great, thanks. The only problem is in the startup menu it says Windows Vista for both not Ultimate or Home Premium. Do you know where I could change the title?
 
I don't THINK you can do it in windows startup/recovery controls, but easyBCD might let you re-label them. Installing a better quality 3rd party bootloader like grub will not help unfortunately, as grub will hand over to the winbootloader in time for that to pop up it's OS choice menu.
 
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