Vista Question

GazD · 2 Jan 2007 at 19:27

I was thinking about installing a copy of Vista i can get and testing the 30 days before I have to activate it, a kind of try before I buy option.

I have my hard drive partitioned 74gb windows and the rest for music and downloads etc. If I installed Vista 64-Bit onto the 74gb partition would everything on the remaining partition be ok, and would work with the new install as my current XP install is 32-Bit

Cob · 2 Jan 2007 at 19:50

Yip everything would be fine. Vista uses the same file system as XP.

csmager · 2 Jan 2007 at 19:54

GazD said:
I was thinking about installing a copy of Vista i can get and testing the 30 days before I have to activate it, a kind of try before I buy option.

I have my hard drive partitioned 74gb windows and the rest for music and downloads etc. If I installed Vista 64-Bit onto the 74gb partition would everything on the remaining partition be ok, and would work with the new install as my current XP install is 32-Bit

Yes it would work, but Windows isn't shareware - you're not actually supposed to have a copy unless you buy it. But meh, who cares.

NathanE · 2 Jan 2007 at 19:54

Vista actually uses NTFS v6 but it is backward compatible with NTFS v5.1.

The key new feature of v6 is transactional filesystem support. Doesn't mean much now but it will be gold for developers once Vista has rolled out.

GazD · 2 Jan 2007 at 20:03

csmager said:
Yes it would work, but Windows isn't shareware - you're not actually supposed to have a copy unless you buy it. But meh, who cares.

Indeed, Indeed