Installing Vista

doyle369 · 10 Feb 2009 at 17:26

Snakedoctor said:
You do have a DVD drive, right? You do know it's not a CD and it's a DVD?

yeah, I know that

Snakedoctor · 10 Feb 2009 at 17:29

Place DVD in drive, reboot PC and when asked press any key to boot from DVD.

doyle369 · 10 Feb 2009 at 17:30

it doesnt say press any key to boot from cd, it just says boot from cd. and I press any key but nothing happens

Snakedoctor · 10 Feb 2009 at 17:33

Not sure what you problem is. Do you still have XP installed? You can install from within it. Simply boot up and put you DVD in the drive and choose install.

doyle369 · 10 Feb 2009 at 17:35

yes I still have xp installed

SO I can just go to my computer, then load vista?

that sounds much easier.. but why do it the other way?

Snakedoctor · 10 Feb 2009 at 17:36

No reason, unless you dont have an OS installed. Yes, you can install from within your XP install. If you have a partitioned drive or 2 hard disk you could dual boot also. Just insert the dvd after booting or double click on the drive icon and he install dialog should pop up for you.

doyle369 · 10 Feb 2009 at 17:47

Snakedoctor said:
No reason, unless you dont have an OS installed. Yes, you can install from within your XP install. If you have a partitioned drive or 2 hard disk you could dual boot also. Just insert the dvd after booting or double click on the drive icon and he install dialog should pop up for you.

as I re-formated the other day maybe I need to update my cd driver?

if so, how do I do this?

Thanks

Snakedoctor · 10 Feb 2009 at 18:38

doyle369 said:
as I re-formated the other day maybe I need to update my cd driver?

if so, how do I do this?

Thanks

Windows will have the correct driver installed for your DVD drive.

1: You should be able to boot from the DVD and install from there
2: You can install from inside Windows.

It's really quite simple.

doyle369 yes I still have xp installed

SO I can just go to my computer, then load vista?

that sounds much easier.. but why do it the other way?

Just boot up Windows and pop your DVD in the drive and then click the "install" button which should pop up in an auto run. If no auto run, check My Computer and see if the DVD for Vista is being seen. If so, double click on the DVD drive's icon and run setup from there.

reflux · 10 Feb 2009 at 18:41

Yeah sorry mate, completely forgot that you can do it from Windows. I always do it the booting way.