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Upgrading drivers?
Hello,
I've been trying to upgrade my notebook so it will be compatible with Vista (running XP now) and have only been halfway successful. Then, on the Microsoft site, I read that when installing Vista, Vista will automatically search for program upgrades and updates. Does that mean that I won't have to worry much about updating my drivers , etc. because Vista will automatically update my system before it installs? Sounds too good to be true. Anyone have any info on this? Or if I have done most of the updating already, should I still allow Vista to try to upgrade my drivers? Thank you for any information. Jerry |
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Upgrading drivers?
It really depends. most of the drivers Vista is going to pull will be from
the Windowsupdate site. Which doesn't mean, it's the best drivers to have (i.e. vide cards) or the preferred video cad by your vendor. It also doesn't mean the drivers will be there at all. The answer is more along the lines of don;t worry about updating XP's drivers, but finding Vista drivers. Vista may have the drivers you need or at least drivers that work, but you normally want the drivers from the device makers site. I have an HP 7210 printer\scanner\copier. Vista has the drivers so I can print, but I don't have the software to where I can scan in documents and printers. It's something like that is critical to your day to day life, then you will want to wait If you have a fairly generic setup, then it may not matter. But if you have items like SATA\IDE RAID cards, certain style Wireless cards. TV tuner cards, SmartCard by companies like Activindenty, VPN software, printers. Also some programs aren't Vista compat. I use PCanywhere for work, but even their latest version 12 doesn't work with Vista. So look at everything you have and use and look to see if there are any Visa updates for it. If there is something critical that doesn't have anything listed for Vista, then you'll want to hold off on the upgrade, or take and chance and hope it works with Vista. Just know your risks, before the upgrade "Jerry Hughes" wrote in message news Hello, I've been trying to upgrade my notebook so it will be compatible with Vista (running XP now) and have only been halfway successful. Then, on the Microsoft site, I read that when installing Vista, Vista will automatically search for program upgrades and updates. Does that mean that I won't have to worry much about updating my drivers , etc. because Vista will automatically update my system before it installs? Sounds too good to be true. Anyone have any info on this? Or if I have done most of the updating already, should I still allow Vista to try to upgrade my drivers? Thank you for any information. Jerry |
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Upgrading drivers?
Hi Dale,
Thanks for answering my post. Okay, most of the drivers that Vista will upgrade will be drivers used for running XP or Vista then and not so much third party software, such as H.P. printers, etc. It's those third party vendors that I am worried about. I've gone to some of their sites and tried to figure out what the latest upgrade was but can't tell by the numbers or letters describing the software. In my device manager, I'm not finding, let's say, driver "B5323" on the vendor's site so I can update it, etc. Kind of frustrating. I would have thought that I could have gone to a vendor's site and found the exact description that is listed in my device manager but not so. Ugh. I had two "critical" upgrades I had to make----one for Sonic (to uninstall) and another for Norton Anti-virus, which I did upgrade. The others on the list aren't called "critical upgrades" but there are about eight others listed that are described as needing attention, etc. Easier said than done. Then I went to Dell's site for their list of needed upgrades before installing Vista and did download most of what was listed there. That was helpful but I still didn't download all of those. I'm getting to the point of just installing Vista and then worrying about it later. Hopefully, nearly all the software I have will work and the ones that won't----maybe I won't really need them. Ha. Anyway, thanks again for posting. Your information was helpful. Have a great one. Jerry "Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote: It really depends. most of the drivers Vista is going to pull will be from the Windowsupdate site. Which doesn't mean, it's the best drivers to have (i.e. vide cards) or the preferred video cad by your vendor. It also doesn't mean the drivers will be there at all. The answer is more along the lines of don;t worry about updating XP's drivers, but finding Vista drivers. Vista may have the drivers you need or at least drivers that work, but you normally want the drivers from the device makers site. I have an HP 7210 printer\scanner\copier. Vista has the drivers so I can print, but I don't have the software to where I can scan in documents and printers. It's something like that is critical to your day to day life, then you will want to wait If you have a fairly generic setup, then it may not matter. But if you have items like SATA\IDE RAID cards, certain style Wireless cards. TV tuner cards, SmartCard by companies like Activindenty, VPN software, printers. Also some programs aren't Vista compat. I use PCanywhere for work, but even their latest version 12 doesn't work with Vista. So look at everything you have and use and look to see if there are any Visa updates for it. If there is something critical that doesn't have anything listed for Vista, then you'll want to hold off on the upgrade, or take and chance and hope it works with Vista. Just know your risks, before the upgrade "Jerry Hughes" wrote in message news Hello, I've been trying to upgrade my notebook so it will be compatible with Vista (running XP now) and have only been halfway successful. Then, on the Microsoft site, I read that when installing Vista, Vista will automatically search for program upgrades and updates. Does that mean that I won't have to worry much about updating my drivers , etc. because Vista will automatically update my system before it installs? Sounds too good to be true. Anyone have any info on this? Or if I have done most of the updating already, should I still allow Vista to try to upgrade my drivers? Thank you for any information. Jerry |
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Upgrading drivers?
"Jerry Hughes" wrote in message
... Hi Dale, Thanks for answering my post. Okay, most of the drivers that Vista will upgrade will be drivers used for running XP or Vista then and not so much third party software, such as H.P. printers, etc. It's those third party vendors that I am worried about. I've gone to some of their sites and tried to figure out what the latest upgrade was but can't tell by the numbers or letters describing the software. In my device manager, I'm not finding, let's say, driver "B5323" on the vendor's site so I can update it, etc. Kind of frustrating. I would have thought that I could have gone to a vendor's site and found the exact description that is listed in my device manager but not so. Ugh. I had two "critical" upgrades I had to make----one for Sonic (to uninstall) and another for Norton Anti-virus, which I did upgrade. The others on the list aren't called "critical upgrades" but there are about eight others listed that are described as needing attention, etc. Easier said than done. Then I went to Dell's site for their list of needed upgrades before installing Vista and did download most of what was listed there. That was helpful but I still didn't download all of those. I'm getting to the point of just installing Vista and then worrying about it later. Hopefully, nearly all the software I have will work and the ones that won't----maybe I won't really need them. Ha. Anyway, thanks again for posting. Your information was helpful. Have a great one. Jerry "Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote: It really depends. most of the drivers Vista is going to pull will be from the Windowsupdate site. Which doesn't mean, it's the best drivers to have (i.e. vide cards) or the preferred video cad by your vendor. It also doesn't mean the drivers will be there at all. The answer is more along the lines of don;t worry about updating XP's drivers, but finding Vista drivers. Vista may have the drivers you need or at least drivers that work, but you normally want the drivers from the device makers site. I have an HP 7210 printer\scanner\copier. Vista has the drivers so I can print, but I don't have the software to where I can scan in documents and printers. It's something like that is critical to your day to day life, then you will want to wait If you have a fairly generic setup, then it may not matter. But if you have items like SATA\IDE RAID cards, certain style Wireless cards. TV tuner cards, SmartCard by companies like Activindenty, VPN software, printers. Also some programs aren't Vista compat. I use PCanywhere for work, but even their latest version 12 doesn't work with Vista. So look at everything you have and use and look to see if there are any Visa updates for it. If there is something critical that doesn't have anything listed for Vista, then you'll want to hold off on the upgrade, or take and chance and hope it works with Vista. Just know your risks, before the upgrade "Jerry Hughes" wrote in message news Hello, I've been trying to upgrade my notebook so it will be compatible with Vista (running XP now) and have only been halfway successful. Then, on the Microsoft site, I read that when installing Vista, Vista will automatically search for program upgrades and updates. Does that mean that I won't have to worry much about updating my drivers , etc. because Vista will automatically update my system before it installs? Sounds too good to be true. Anyone have any info on this? Or if I have done most of the updating already, should I still allow Vista to try to upgrade my drivers? Thank you for any information. Jerry When I installed Vista on my Toshiba, it installed it's own drivers. I noticed I couldn't change my video settings and it was stuck on 1024x768. Couldn't go lower or higher and I know my screen can go one level higher. So, I took the restore CD that came with my notebook and 'updated' the video driver and pointed to the directory on the CD that had the video driver. Presto. It worked. Therefore, the driver Microsoft has for your system are basically only to allow it to function. If you need more flexibility, you will need the proper driver from the restore CD or manufacturer. Keep in mind however, that there are just some machines that Vista will not work well on or even install on due to them being too old. I think it's fair to say that any system less than 4 years old is safe, although you may need to upgrade memory or some other device like Video card. That's why it's a good thing to run the Vista Upgrade Advisor first and take note of what it found. |
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Upgrading drivers?
Hi Fedwayguy,
Thank you for the information. The only thing that I am concerned about when updating drivers from a C.D. is that the drivers on that C.D. may not be the latest available. So I guess the best thing to do would be to go directly to the manufacturer's website for the latest driver. Find and dandy if I can find the driver that I need, just from the list the manufacturer has listed. I hope so. I think I'll take some more time and look for the lastest drivers off the update list from Microsoft and Dell. Thanks again, Jerry "Fedwayguy" wrote: "Jerry Hughes" wrote in message ... Hi Dale, Thanks for answering my post. Okay, most of the drivers that Vista will upgrade will be drivers used for running XP or Vista then and not so much third party software, such as H.P. printers, etc. It's those third party vendors that I am worried about. I've gone to some of their sites and tried to figure out what the latest upgrade was but can't tell by the numbers or letters describing the software. In my device manager, I'm not finding, let's say, driver "B5323" on the vendor's site so I can update it, etc. Kind of frustrating. I would have thought that I could have gone to a vendor's site and found the exact description that is listed in my device manager but not so. Ugh. I had two "critical" upgrades I had to make----one for Sonic (to uninstall) and another for Norton Anti-virus, which I did upgrade. The others on the list aren't called "critical upgrades" but there are about eight others listed that are described as needing attention, etc. Easier said than done. Then I went to Dell's site for their list of needed upgrades before installing Vista and did download most of what was listed there. That was helpful but I still didn't download all of those. I'm getting to the point of just installing Vista and then worrying about it later. Hopefully, nearly all the software I have will work and the ones that won't----maybe I won't really need them. Ha. Anyway, thanks again for posting. Your information was helpful. Have a great one. Jerry "Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote: It really depends. most of the drivers Vista is going to pull will be from the Windowsupdate site. Which doesn't mean, it's the best drivers to have (i.e. vide cards) or the preferred video cad by your vendor. It also doesn't mean the drivers will be there at all. The answer is more along the lines of don;t worry about updating XP's drivers, but finding Vista drivers. Vista may have the drivers you need or at least drivers that work, but you normally want the drivers from the device makers site. I have an HP 7210 printer\scanner\copier. Vista has the drivers so I can print, but I don't have the software to where I can scan in documents and printers. It's something like that is critical to your day to day life, then you will want to wait If you have a fairly generic setup, then it may not matter. But if you have items like SATA\IDE RAID cards, certain style Wireless cards. TV tuner cards, SmartCard by companies like Activindenty, VPN software, printers. Also some programs aren't Vista compat. I use PCanywhere for work, but even their latest version 12 doesn't work with Vista. So look at everything you have and use and look to see if there are any Visa updates for it. If there is something critical that doesn't have anything listed for Vista, then you'll want to hold off on the upgrade, or take and chance and hope it works with Vista. Just know your risks, before the upgrade "Jerry Hughes" wrote in message news Hello, I've been trying to upgrade my notebook so it will be compatible with Vista (running XP now) and have only been halfway successful. Then, on the Microsoft site, I read that when installing Vista, Vista will automatically search for program upgrades and updates. Does that mean that I won't have to worry much about updating my drivers , etc. because Vista will automatically update my system before it installs? Sounds too good to be true. Anyone have any info on this? Or if I have done most of the updating already, should I still allow Vista to try to upgrade my drivers? Thank you for any information. Jerry When I installed Vista on my Toshiba, it installed it's own drivers. I noticed I couldn't change my video settings and it was stuck on 1024x768. Couldn't go lower or higher and I know my screen can go one level higher. So, I took the restore CD that came with my notebook and 'updated' the video driver and pointed to the directory on the CD that had the video driver. Presto. It worked. Therefore, the driver Microsoft has for your system are basically only to allow it to function. If you need more flexibility, you will need the proper driver from the restore CD or manufacturer. Keep in mind however, that there are just some machines that Vista will not work well on or even install on due to them being too old. I think it's fair to say that any system less than 4 years old is safe, although you may need to upgrade memory or some other device like Video card. That's why it's a good thing to run the Vista Upgrade Advisor first and take note of what it found. |
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Upgrading drivers?
That's a good concern Jerry. I have a custom built system, with a Abit A8N board.To my surprise vista did not have the Audio drivers. So I used the XP drivers that I had downloaded before. Funny enough the drivers worked and I had sound, but when I rebooted. It was causing Vista to BSOD on boot (which I didn't think was suppose to happen anymore ha-ha) I went and downloaded a newer version of the XP drivers, and they worked and no more BSODs on boot. On my laptop, it didn't discover the Wireless card I had, and I had to manually assign the closest drives I could find (which worked), funny enough after doing that, I went to windowsupdate.com and it downloaded the official drivers. The wireless card was an HP W400, which is actually made my Atheos. I loaded the generic Athehos 802.11G drivers and then it loaded the HP W400 drivers. So you can get lucky or help Vista along however you view it. My person advice, is if this is a desktop system is to go ahead and incest $50 or so into a hard drive and give yourself the option of dual booting or if nothing else, preserving your XP config in case you have to go back. don't be like one poster in this group who jumped head long into Vista with no way easy way of going back to XP. If everything works great, then you have extra storage available. "Jerry Hughes" wrote in message ... Hi Fedwayguy, Thank you for the information. The only thing that I am concerned about when updating drivers from a C.D. is that the drivers on that C.D. may not be the latest available. So I guess the best thing to do would be to go directly to the manufacturer's website for the latest driver. Find and dandy if I can find the driver that I need, just from the list the manufacturer has listed. I hope so. I think I'll take some more time and look for the lastest drivers off the update list from Microsoft and Dell. Thanks again, Jerry "Fedwayguy" wrote: "Jerry Hughes" wrote in message ... Hi Dale, Thanks for answering my post. Okay, most of the drivers that Vista will upgrade will be drivers used for running XP or Vista then and not so much third party software, such as H.P. printers, etc. It's those third party vendors that I am worried about. I've gone to some of their sites and tried to figure out what the latest upgrade was but can't tell by the numbers or letters describing the software. In my device manager, I'm not finding, let's say, driver "B5323" on the vendor's site so I can update it, etc. Kind of frustrating. I would have thought that I could have gone to a vendor's site and found the exact description that is listed in my device manager but not so. Ugh. I had two "critical" upgrades I had to make----one for Sonic (to uninstall) and another for Norton Anti-virus, which I did upgrade. The others on the list aren't called "critical upgrades" but there are about eight others listed that are described as needing attention, etc. Easier said than done. Then I went to Dell's site for their list of needed upgrades before installing Vista and did download most of what was listed there. That was helpful but I still didn't download all of those. I'm getting to the point of just installing Vista and then worrying about it later. Hopefully, nearly all the software I have will work and the ones that won't----maybe I won't really need them. Ha. Anyway, thanks again for posting. Your information was helpful. Have a great one. Jerry "Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote: It really depends. most of the drivers Vista is going to pull will be from the Windowsupdate site. Which doesn't mean, it's the best drivers to have (i.e. vide cards) or the preferred video cad by your vendor. It also doesn't mean the drivers will be there at all. The answer is more along the lines of don;t worry about updating XP's drivers, but finding Vista drivers. Vista may have the drivers you need or at least drivers that work, but you normally want the drivers from the device makers site. I have an HP 7210 printer\scanner\copier. Vista has the drivers so I can print, but I don't have the software to where I can scan in documents and printers. It's something like that is critical to your day to day life, then you will want to wait If you have a fairly generic setup, then it may not matter. But if you have items like SATA\IDE RAID cards, certain style Wireless cards. TV tuner cards, SmartCard by companies like Activindenty, VPN software, printers. Also some programs aren't Vista compat. I use PCanywhere for work, but even their latest version 12 doesn't work with Vista. So look at everything you have and use and look to see if there are any Visa updates for it. If there is something critical that doesn't have anything listed for Vista, then you'll want to hold off on the upgrade, or take and chance and hope it works with Vista. Just know your risks, before the upgrade "Jerry Hughes" wrote in message news Hello, I've been trying to upgrade my notebook so it will be compatible with Vista (running XP now) and have only been halfway successful. Then, on the Microsoft site, I read that when installing Vista, Vista will automatically search for program upgrades and updates. Does that mean that I won't have to worry much about updating my drivers , etc. because Vista will automatically update my system before it installs? Sounds too good to be true. Anyone have any info on this? Or if I have done most of the updating already, should I still allow Vista to try to upgrade my drivers? Thank you for any information. Jerry When I installed Vista on my Toshiba, it installed it's own drivers. I noticed I couldn't change my video settings and it was stuck on 1024x768. Couldn't go lower or higher and I know my screen can go one level higher. So, I took the restore CD that came with my notebook and 'updated' the video driver and pointed to the directory on the CD that had the video driver. Presto. It worked. Therefore, the driver Microsoft has for your system are basically only to allow it to function. If you need more flexibility, you will need the proper driver from the restore CD or manufacturer. Keep in mind however, that there are just some machines that Vista will not work well on or even install on due to them being too old. I think it's fair to say that any system less than 4 years old is safe, although you may need to upgrade memory or some other device like Video card. That's why it's a good thing to run the Vista Upgrade Advisor first and take note of what it found. |
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Upgrading drivers?
Hi Dale, thanks for your info. Actually, the notebook is a month old Dell
Inspiron E1705 and I was really surprised that I could buy this notebook so close to the release of Vista and still have all this work to do, as far as updating drivers! What's more, a friend of mine bought a new Dell and will have to go through the same thing but instead of doing the work, is going to drop it off to have Vista installed. Man, can't imagine that service is going to do all the updating, uninstalling, etc., that should be done, properly. I will have to look into how to preserve my XP config before installing Vista. Haven't the foggiest but I guess it's better to be safe than sorry. I'm hoping the Vista DVD will mention that option before installing Vista and if so, I will certainly choose that option. Thanks for that advice! Jerry "Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote: That's a good concern Jerry. I have a custom built system, with a Abit A8N board.To my surprise vista did not have the Audio drivers. So I used the XP drivers that I had downloaded before. Funny enough the drivers worked and I had sound, but when I rebooted. It was causing Vista to BSOD on boot (which I didn't think was suppose to happen anymore ha-ha) I went and downloaded a newer version of the XP drivers, and they worked and no more BSODs on boot. On my laptop, it didn't discover the Wireless card I had, and I had to manually assign the closest drives I could find (which worked), funny enough after doing that, I went to windowsupdate.com and it downloaded the official drivers. The wireless card was an HP W400, which is actually made my Atheos. I loaded the generic Athehos 802.11G drivers and then it loaded the HP W400 drivers. So you can get lucky or help Vista along however you view it. My person advice, is if this is a desktop system is to go ahead and incest $50 or so into a hard drive and give yourself the option of dual booting or if nothing else, preserving your XP config in case you have to go back. don't be like one poster in this group who jumped head long into Vista with no way easy way of going back to XP. If everything works great, then you have extra storage available. "Jerry Hughes" wrote in message ... Hi Fedwayguy, Thank you for the information. The only thing that I am concerned about when updating drivers from a C.D. is that the drivers on that C.D. may not be the latest available. So I guess the best thing to do would be to go directly to the manufacturer's website for the latest driver. Find and dandy if I can find the driver that I need, just from the list the manufacturer has listed. I hope so. I think I'll take some more time and look for the lastest drivers off the update list from Microsoft and Dell. Thanks again, Jerry "Fedwayguy" wrote: "Jerry Hughes" wrote in message ... Hi Dale, Thanks for answering my post. Okay, most of the drivers that Vista will upgrade will be drivers used for running XP or Vista then and not so much third party software, such as H.P. printers, etc. It's those third party vendors that I am worried about. I've gone to some of their sites and tried to figure out what the latest upgrade was but can't tell by the numbers or letters describing the software. In my device manager, I'm not finding, let's say, driver "B5323" on the vendor's site so I can update it, etc. Kind of frustrating. I would have thought that I could have gone to a vendor's site and found the exact description that is listed in my device manager but not so. Ugh. I had two "critical" upgrades I had to make----one for Sonic (to uninstall) and another for Norton Anti-virus, which I did upgrade. The others on the list aren't called "critical upgrades" but there are about eight others listed that are described as needing attention, etc. Easier said than done. Then I went to Dell's site for their list of needed upgrades before installing Vista and did download most of what was listed there. That was helpful but I still didn't download all of those. I'm getting to the point of just installing Vista and then worrying about it later. Hopefully, nearly all the software I have will work and the ones that won't----maybe I won't really need them. Ha. Anyway, thanks again for posting. Your information was helpful. Have a great one. Jerry "Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote: It really depends. most of the drivers Vista is going to pull will be from the Windowsupdate site. Which doesn't mean, it's the best drivers to have (i.e. vide cards) or the preferred video cad by your vendor. It also doesn't mean the drivers will be there at all. The answer is more along the lines of don;t worry about updating XP's drivers, but finding Vista drivers. Vista may have the drivers you need or at least drivers that work, but you normally want the drivers from the device makers site. I have an HP 7210 printer\scanner\copier. Vista has the drivers so I can print, but I don't have the software to where I can scan in documents and printers. It's something like that is critical to your day to day life, then you will want to wait If you have a fairly generic setup, then it may not matter. But if you have items like SATA\IDE RAID cards, certain style Wireless cards. TV tuner cards, SmartCard by companies like Activindenty, VPN software, printers. Also some programs aren't Vista compat. I use PCanywhere for work, but even their latest version 12 doesn't work with Vista. So look at everything you have and use and look to see if there are any Visa updates for it. If there is something critical that doesn't have anything listed for Vista, then you'll want to hold off on the upgrade, or take and chance and hope it works with Vista. Just know your risks, before the upgrade "Jerry Hughes" wrote in message news Hello, I've been trying to upgrade my notebook so it will be compatible with Vista (running XP now) and have only been halfway successful. Then, on the Microsoft site, I read that when installing Vista, Vista will automatically search for program upgrades and updates. Does that mean that I won't have to worry much about updating my drivers , etc. because Vista will automatically update my system before it installs? Sounds too good to be true. Anyone have any info on this? Or if I have done most of the updating already, should I still allow Vista to try to upgrade my drivers? Thank you for any information. Jerry When I installed Vista on my Toshiba, it installed it's own drivers. I noticed I couldn't change my video settings and it was stuck on 1024x768. Couldn't go lower or higher and I know my screen can go one level higher. So, I took the restore CD that came with my notebook and 'updated' the video driver and pointed to the directory on the CD that had the video driver. Presto. It worked. Therefore, the driver Microsoft has for your system are basically only to allow it to function. If you need more flexibility, you will need the proper driver from the restore CD or manufacturer. Keep in mind however, that there are just some machines that Vista will not work well on or even install on due to them being too old. I think it's fair to say that any system less than 4 years old is safe, although you may need to upgrade memory or some other device like Video card. That's why it's a good thing to run the Vista Upgrade Advisor first and take note of what it found. |
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"Jerry Hughes" wrote
Hi Dale, thanks for your info. Actually, the notebook is a month old Dell Inspiron E1705 and I was really surprised that I could buy this notebook so close to the release of Vista and still have all this work to do, as far as updating drivers! What's more, a friend of mine bought a new Dell and will have to go through the same thing but instead of doing the work, is going to drop it off to have Vista installed. Man, can't imagine that service is going to do all the updating, uninstalling, etc., that should be done, properly. I will have to look into how to preserve my XP config before installing Vista. Haven't the foggiest but I guess it's better to be safe than sorry. I'm hoping the Vista DVD will mention that option before installing Vista and if so, I will certainly choose that option. Thanks for that advice! Easy / best way is to get drive imaging software like Acronis True Image, and image the XP installation to an external hard drive, USB or Sata. ATI works in Vista too, so you have both bases covered. -- Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell] |
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I agree, though I'm partial to Symantec's Norton Ghost. which at their
current rate, will probably buy Acronis in the next year or so "Rock" wrote in message ... "Jerry Hughes" wrote Hi Dale, thanks for your info. Actually, the notebook is a month old Dell Inspiron E1705 and I was really surprised that I could buy this notebook so close to the release of Vista and still have all this work to do, as far as updating drivers! What's more, a friend of mine bought a new Dell and will have to go through the same thing but instead of doing the work, is going to drop it off to have Vista installed. Man, can't imagine that service is going to do all the updating, uninstalling, etc., that should be done, properly. I will have to look into how to preserve my XP config before installing Vista. Haven't the foggiest but I guess it's better to be safe than sorry. I'm hoping the Vista DVD will mention that option before installing Vista and if so, I will certainly choose that option. Thanks for that advice! Easy / best way is to get drive imaging software like Acronis True Image, and image the XP installation to an external hard drive, USB or Sata. ATI works in Vista too, so you have both bases covered. -- Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell] |
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"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote
I agree, though I'm partial to Symantec's Norton Ghost. which at their current rate, will probably buy Acronis in the next year or so "Rock" wrote "Jerry Hughes" wrote Hi Dale, thanks for your info. Actually, the notebook is a month old Dell Inspiron E1705 and I was really surprised that I could buy this notebook so close to the release of Vista and still have all this work to do, as far as updating drivers! What's more, a friend of mine bought a new Dell and will have to go through the same thing but instead of doing the work, is going to drop it off to have Vista installed. Man, can't imagine that service is going to do all the updating, uninstalling, etc., that should be done, properly. I will have to look into how to preserve my XP config before installing Vista. Haven't the foggiest but I guess it's better to be safe than sorry. I'm hoping the Vista DVD will mention that option before installing Vista and if so, I will certainly choose that option. Thanks for that advice! Easy / best way is to get drive imaging software like Acronis True Image, and image the XP installation to an external hard drive, USB or Sata. ATI works in Vista too, so you have both bases covered. Bite your tongue. They gobbled up Powerquest and Drive Image some time ago. Still use that on XP. Just moved to ATI for Vista. Symantec tends to ruin everything they buy, though they did take the good features of DI and moved them into Ghost. I haven't worked with any of the Ghost versions. -- Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell] |
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