Installing Vista Again

[xarzu]

I am installing a new Operating System on my computer for a varety of reasons that I have mentioned in other discussion threads. I am going to do this on a new hard drive that I am buying along with the new Vista Business 32-bit and I plan on making my current hard drive a "D" drive.

I wonder what sort of preparations I should make and I wonder what steps I should talke to do this.

I know that when you install a new OS, it wipes the hard drive clean. Will it do this only on the C drive? Or if I have both hard drives hooked up, will it do it on both hard drives?

Also, my current system is a Vista Business 64-bit. It seems that Microsoft discontinued this OS and they only sell the 32-bit. Is that going to be any kind of problem?

 

[MilkyWay]

it will only format what ever drive you make it so you choose C: or D:

other than that dont you have a disk for your current os i mean you can phone and get a new serial key

 

[wolf]

I am installing a new Operating System on my computer for a varety of reasons that I have mentioned in other discussion threads. I am going to do this on a new hard drive that I am buying along with the new Vista Business 32-bit and I plan on making my current hard drive a "D" drive.

I wonder what sort of preparations I should make and I wonder what steps I should talke to do this.

I know that when you install a new OS, it wipes the hard drive clean. Will it do this only on the C drive? Or if I have both hard drives hooked up, will it do it on both hard drives?

Also, my current system is a Vista Business 64-bit. It seems that Microsoft discontinued this OS and they only sell the 32-bit. Is that going to be any kind of problem?

it will only wipe the drive that you select, and as for 32-bit, it really only depends on how much ram you have or how much you plan on adding.

 

[MilkyWay]

64 bit applications are much better than 32 bit

64 bit os address memory differently

32 bit seems to be slower too but thats just me,

pcs used to have an A: B: floppy and the C: drive was the Hard Disk Drive D: was added for an optical drive nice little fachto there

we still use A: drive for floppy and C: drive for HDD, because we no longer require a second floppy drive anymore

 

[Mark099]

If you are buying Vista now -- any version. Buy 64-bit. Application and driver support is fully in place now.

 

[BroBQ]

Like Mark said.... Buy 64-Bit

 

[KainXS]

why not use the 7 beta, its free for now and faster than vista in my opinion

 

[Mark099]

why not use the 7 beta, its free for now and faster than vista in my opinion

It's still beta and can cause a lot of problems.

 

[shadapar]

shouldn't be an issue but sometimes vista gets stupid about drive assignments, especially if you already have an OS in place on the second drive. shouldn't be an issue if you've set boot priority in the bios, but if it boots to a desktop screen, but nothing comes up on then control+alt+delete to bring up the task manager, go file, new task run, and type regedit. somewhere in there is the serialized drive assignments for windows. you might have to use the find function to search for it, but just change the D: to C: and the C: to D: then save and reboot. Windows should come up fine.