Windows Vista Install

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charlieharper

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I borrowed a few days ago my friend's Windows Vista disk, just to try it out.
Is there a way to install Vista without formatting your hard drive??
Dont you get an Installer for it like WUBI you get with UBUNTU?

thx
 
Sadly not. You can start the installer from within a compatible Windows version to do an in place upgrade, or you can boot from the dvd to do a clean install. If you have 2 hard drives you install Vista to one and leave the other one as is.

That should also work if you have another partition on 1 drive, provided is has enough space. You can't however install Vista on the same partition as XP at the same time, like you could do with Win98 and XP. Microsoft has never supported that method anyway.

Hope this helps
 
You could create a new partition from inside Windows and then install Vista to that partition. It's the same thing I did with Ubuntu just that WUBI makes it easier. I suppose they expect Linux to be installed alongside other distributions/Windows.
 
I you are really just 'trying it out' you can install it into a virtual machine, using something VMWare or VirtualBox.

You sometimes you have to do a bit of hacking to get it installed that way, though.
 
Running Vista in VirtualBox works like a charm, I've done it myself a couple of times. Just install the guest additions and you are set to go.

Of course this is a good way to test the system out, but it won't quite be the same as actually running it fully on your hardware so that you can have a decent real time feel of how it acts.
 
I actually want to install vista fully, also to check out if DirectX 10 really make such a big difference. How can I make a NO-RISK partition to install vista on??
 
Just resize your XP Partition then install windows in the free space, Vista will install without breaking your XP partition and you'll have an option to boot between the two.
 
Someone is asking if they can get Vista to play nicely with other partitions.

BWAHAHA
 
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