Does Vista Beta 2 dual boot with Xp Pro ?

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 6 Jun 2006 at 14:12

As the title asks really ?

wesley · 6 Jun 2006 at 14:13

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 6 Jun 2006 at 14:15

How do you do it ?

ns400r · 6 Jun 2006 at 14:21

Fstop11 said:
How do you do it ?

Run the Vista setup from WITHIN Windows XP.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 6 Jun 2006 at 14:46

Thank you.

csmager · 6 Jun 2006 at 15:45

And, fairly obviously, make sure you have a spare partition or drive with at least 15Gb free.

Mana · 6 Jun 2006 at 16:11

hmm i might have to give this a go...

Messiah Khan · 6 Jun 2006 at 16:34

csmager said:
And, fairly obviously, make sure you have a spare partition or drive with at least 15Gb free.

15Gb

That how big the vista install is? Or are you adding swapfile space there as well?

csmager · 6 Jun 2006 at 16:44

messiah khan said:
15Gb That how big the vista install is? Or are you adding swapfile space there as well?

It does take up quite a bit, but not quite 15Gb. That's just what MS recommend as a minimum.

Having said that, I've got Vista & precious little else (biggest I can think are Office & Acrobat), and I'm using 14Gb. Although I think it's synced a load of offline files. Not more than a couple of Gb though.

tolien · 6 Jun 2006 at 16:47

It's probably worth pointing out that the Vista Betas are the Ultimate version, the "lesser" versions should consume less.

csmager · 6 Jun 2006 at 16:48

tolien said:
It's probably worth pointing out that the Vista Betas are the Ultimate version, the "lesser" versions should consume less.

And I'd guess even the final Ultimate version will too.

Greenlizard0 · 6 Jun 2006 at 17:23

Are these the thangs that have a time up thing attached to it? Like you can try it for a bit, and then it locks itself up?

csmager · 6 Jun 2006 at 17:31

greenlizard0 said:
Are these the thangs that have a time up thing attached to it? Like you can try it for a bit, and then it locks itself up?

For starters, it's not on general release yet. When it is, you have 14 days to activate... and then I think there may be a time limit of 180 days, but don't quote me on that.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 6 Jun 2006 at 19:06

Is there a specific way to go about installing the Beta 2 of Vista. Burn it to dvd and it moans about some file it cant access. Run it from your hard drive and it almost completes and then tells you that the install was not sucessfull and it returns things as they were using both upgrade and clean.

csmager · 6 Jun 2006 at 19:07

Fstop11 said:
Is there a specific way to go about installing the Beta 2 of Vista. Burn it to dvd and it moans about some file it cant access. Run it from your hard drive and it almost completes and then tells you that the install was not sucessfull and it returns things as they were using both upgrade and clean.

Should work either way. I installed off the HDD using DaemonTools first time round, then I formatted completely and booted off a burned DVD. Both worked fine.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 6 Jun 2006 at 19:15

csmager said:
Should work either way. I installed off the HDD using DaemonTools first time round, then I formatted completely and booted off a burned DVD. Both worked fine.

Did you encounter an error regarding the Silcon Image Sil 3132 SATALink Controller ?

csmager · 6 Jun 2006 at 19:16

Fstop11 said:
Did you encounter an error regarding the Silcon Image Sil 3132 SATALink Controller ?

As I don't have one, no I didn't. If you're encountering an error, you might require additional drivers to install (like installing XP). In XP, you press F6 to add new drivers. Not sure how it works in Vista, but it might be similar.

If that doesn't cause it, then it might just currently be incompatible. In which case remove it, install on another HDD Drive on a different controller, or try another PC.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 6 Jun 2006 at 19:19

csmager said:
As I don't have one, no I didn't. If you're encountering an error, you might require additional drivers to install (like installing XP). In XP, you press F6 to add new drivers. Not sure how it works in Vista, but it might be similar.

If that doesn't cause it, then it might just currently be incompatible. In which case remove it, install on another HDD Drive on a different controller, or try another PC.

Well I dont have another Pc so thats not an option. I have tried to update the driver but It just doesnt work with a latest one either. I can try without one installed at all.

Dont have a floppy drive either to load the image. To be honest I cant see why that would cause all this. I tried an earlier version of Vista from 3 months ago and that went in and worked.