Installing the Upgrade on a Blank Hard Drive
Few days back, I bought Windows Vista Business Upgrade the other day so I could start playing with it. Since I did not want to mess up the configuration of my current computer, I thought I would install Vista on a blank hard drive.
Sounds easy enough, after all the previous versions of Windows required you to have a legitimate copy of an older Windows operating system and simply asked for that copy during the install so they could verify upgrade compliance.
Before installing Windows Vista, I ran the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor on my current system. As I suspected, my video card was not up to Vista standards and the 512MB of RAM was on the low end of what Vista wanted. So, I purchased a chipset video controller with 256MB of RAM and increased the amount of system memory to 1GB before proceeding. Now I was ready to proceed with installing Vista and seeing what all the “wow!” was about.
To learn more please read the entire article at its source: Windows Vista: Installing the Upgrade on a Blank Hard Driver
MS Windows Articles, Reviews and Videos on 17 Nov 2007 at 11:55 am #
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