In message <00f601c75444$78e6cf10$cf420756@TEDLACEY2>, Arthur Lacey <tedell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
The adverts for Vista show upgrade versions. Are these for upgrading from one version to a higher one or from XP?
From XP?Apparently in the long run it will be possible to pay online to upgrade between different versions of Vista. So if you have Home Basic you can upgrade to Home Premium. All that happens is that you get a new registration code.
The cheapest way of getting Vista is to buy an OEM version - around 75 quid all inc for Home Premium. However Personal Computer World points out that these may be considered to be limited to one piece of hardware so you might not be able to move them to another computer in the future.
The OEM discs only come with 32 or 64 bit code on - contrary to what has been said in some places.
The machine I put Vista on, has a SATA RAID disc (two Serial ATA discs connected to form one big disc) and it installed with no problems on a second partition. Providing me with a boot menu that lets me boot into either XP on the first partition or Vista.
Getting into more dangerous territory I found a partition editor: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php might be useful, but I didn't use it.If you have unused space on a disc the tools inside Windows will let you create more partitions.
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