I have a system with 2 hard drives. My original Windows XP drive and a
second one that added to test Vista beta 2. When I installed beta 2 I got a
boot menu that let's me select what system to boot.

Now I want to remove beta 2 and install Vista 5536. But I'm not sure about
the procedure for doing this. I've also seen that when I boot with XP of
Vista my HD letters changes and I'm afraid to doing something wrong.

Do I have to boot from the 5536 install DVD, then format de Vista beta 2
drive and do a clean install?

Will I have some problems with the beta 2 boot menu or simply will boot 5536
after the installation?

I will be sure about what to do before starting the installation.

Regards,
Angel.

I am current running my computer which has two hard drives as a dual boot with Windows XP Professional. I have XP on the C drive. When I installed Beta 2 (5384), I began the install while running XP by placing the Vista DVD in the DVD drive and following the instructions. My drive letters remain unchanged. when I am running Vista, it says it is on the D drive and the drive wherein XP resides is the C drive.

William

"Angel Massa" wrote in message ...
I have a system with 2 hard drives. My original Windows XP drive and a
second one that added to test Vista beta 2. When I installed beta 2 I got a
boot menu that let's me select what system to boot.

Now I want to remove beta 2 and install Vista 5536. But I'm not sure about
the procedure for doing this. I've also seen that when I boot with XP of
Vista my HD letters changes and I'm afraid to doing something wrong.

Do I have to boot from the 5536 install DVD, then format de Vista beta 2
drive and do a clean install?

Will I have some problems with the beta 2 boot menu or simply will boot 5536
after the installation?

I will be sure about what to do before starting the installation.

Regards,
Angel.

Just upgrade your existing Vista by inserting the new DVD while signed into
XP and open the disc, locate the setup.exe and go from there.

--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Beta
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

"Angel Massa" wrote in message
...
I have a system with 2 hard drives. My original Windows XP drive and a
second one that added to test Vista beta 2. When I installed beta 2 I got a
boot menu that let's me select what system to boot.

Now I want to remove beta 2 and install Vista 5536. But I'm not sure about
the procedure for doing this. I've also seen that when I boot with XP of
Vista my HD letters changes and I'm afraid to doing something wrong.

Do I have to boot from the 5536 install DVD, then format de Vista beta 2
drive and do a clean install?

Will I have some problems with the beta 2 boot menu or simply will boot
5536 after the installation?

I will be sure about what to do before starting the installation.

Regards,
Angel.

I'm sure this will be more safe. But I always prefer to do a clean install
when intalling an OS. I doubt an upgrade over beta 2 will have the same
result that installing over a formatet partition.

Regards,
Angel.

Just upgrade your existing Vista by inserting the new DVD while signed
into XP and open the disc, locate the setup.exe and go from there.

I erred in my previous post...it should read while signed into Vista
Beta...it worked just fine for me.

--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Beta
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

"Angel Massa" wrote in message
...
I'm sure this will be more safe. But I always prefer to do a clean install
when intalling an OS. I doubt an upgrade over beta 2 will have the same
result that installing over a formatet partition.

Regards,
Angel.

Just upgrade your existing Vista by inserting the new DVD while signed
into XP and open the disc, locate the setup.exe and go from there.

Thanks Peter,

No problem. I already installed Pre-RC1 yesterday and the intallation was
great. Luckily I did not formated my partition before installing. I've just
run the install application from Vista Beta 2 and then choose to make a new
installation on my Vista partition.

I was afraid of the results, but it was great. Vista created a totally new
and clean install on the partition. Then created a Windows.old folder with
all the information from the previous Beta 2 (Program Files, Users and
Windows folders). That's just what I needed. A very simple and great way to
do an installation.

Pre-RC1 is really impressive. Runs much better but I'm still disapointed
with two problems. Mobile Center doesn't sync with my PocketPC and the wifi
drivers that gave problems on Beta 2 are not updated on Pre-RC1 even when
apearead a patch on Windows Update that fixed this.

Regards,
Angel.



I erred in my previous post...it should read while signed into Vista
Beta...it worked just fine for me.

I went the upgrade route and it was fine too. Minor glitchs with some
drivers and software but all sorted out now.

--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Beta
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

"Angel Massa" wrote in message
...
Thanks Peter,

No problem. I already installed Pre-RC1 yesterday and the intallation was
great. Luckily I did not formated my partition before installing. I've
just run the install application from Vista Beta 2 and then choose to make
a new installation on my Vista partition.

I was afraid of the results, but it was great. Vista created a totally new
and clean install on the partition. Then created a Windows.old folder with
all the information from the previous Beta 2 (Program Files, Users and
Windows folders). That's just what I needed. A very simple and great way
to do an installation.

Pre-RC1 is really impressive. Runs much better but I'm still disapointed
with two problems. Mobile Center doesn't sync with my PocketPC and the
wifi drivers that gave problems on Beta 2 are not updated on Pre-RC1 even
when apearead a patch on Windows Update that fixed this.

Regards,
Angel.



I erred in my previous post...it should read while signed into Vista
Beta...it worked just fine for me.

How's the Radeon 9550 handling the graphics on the new build?

"Peter" wrote:

I went the upgrade route and it was fine too. Minor glitchs with some
drivers and software but all sorted out now.

--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Beta
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

"Angel Massa" wrote in message
...
Thanks Peter,

No problem. I already installed Pre-RC1 yesterday and the intallation was
great. Luckily I did not formated my partition before installing. I've
just run the install application from Vista Beta 2 and then choose to make
a new installation on my Vista partition.

I was afraid of the results, but it was great. Vista created a totally new
and clean install on the partition. Then created a Windows.old folder with
all the information from the previous Beta 2 (Program Files, Users and
Windows folders). That's just what I needed. A very simple and great way
to do an installation.

Pre-RC1 is really impressive. Runs much better but I'm still disapointed
with two problems. Mobile Center doesn't sync with my PocketPC and the
wifi drivers that gave problems on Beta 2 are not updated on Pre-RC1 even
when apearead a patch on Windows Update that fixed this.

Regards,
Angel.



I erred in my previous post...it should read while signed into Vista
Beta...it worked just fine for me.