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How do I burn Vista?

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powwka

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I'm editing my original post. I have now downloaded Vista, but I'm not sure how to burn it to DVD. I just downloaded CDBurnerXP Pro 3 and tried burning it, but I got an error at the end. Now I am left with only 1 more DVD, so I don't want to screw this up.
Can someone tell me what program to download, and how to use it please? The DVDs are Memorex DVD+R, 4x.
 
First of all, why are you doing RC2 exclusively? I would advise a dual boot of XP and RC2. Not all software will run on Vista so you may regret not having XP as a backup. Add to the fact that RC2 will expire in July 2007.

1. don't know
2. When you use Office 07 beta, save your file to an older version via drop down menu and you should be fine.
3. You don't have to use your mbo driver CD, Vista will detect your hardware fine.
4. Your network card should be detected in Vista and thus your internet should work.

 
Originally posted by: ricochet
First of all, why are you doing RC2 exclusively? I would advise a dual boot of XP and RC2. Not all software will run on Vista so you may regret not having XP as a backup. Add to the fact that RC2 will expire in July 2007.

1. don't know
2. When you use Office 07 beta, save your file to an older version via drop down menu and you should be fine.
3. You don't have to use your mbo driver CD, Vista will detect your hardware fine.
4. Your network card should be detected in Vista and thus your internet should work.
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Thanks!

I guess I never thought of doing a dual boot. When installing Vista, should I just create an extra partition of like 5-10GB for XP or what?
 
I think it makes more sense to have 2 partition of equal size (150gig each), but that's just me. Large partitions take much longer to defrag.

I'm assuming you have XP with SP2 already on the CD. If not, I would create a slipstreamed XP CD. Look it up via google.

If you decide to dual boot:

1. Create 2 partition: 1 primary (c drive) and 1 logical (d drive).

2. Format the logical (d) drive and install XP. Of course XP will automatically put some files on drive (c) as well.

3. After installation of XP is complete, boot off the RC2 disc and install the new OS on the primary (c) drive. It will give you some warning about moving your old windows on c: to windows.old, but you don't have to worry since yours is on d. Just continue.


If you decide to install XP on the primary (c drive) and RC2 on the logical (d drive), it will work as well without giving you the warning mentioned in instruction 3. But you'll find out that when you boot into Vista, the logical drive you thought was drive d is labelled as drive c and the drive you installed XP on will be labelled drive d. When you boot into XP, however, things are back to normal with the drive letters flip-flopped. This is no big deal to some, but for me I'd rather have the drive letters to remain consistent and used the method above.




 
Originally posted by: ricochet
I think it makes more sense to have 2 partition of equal size (150gig each), but that's just me. Large partitions take much longer to defrag.

I'm assuming you have XP with SP2 already on the CD. If not, I would create a slipstreamed XP CD. Look it up via google.

If you decide to dual boot:

1. Create 2 partition: 1 primary (c drive) and 1 logical (d drive).

2. Format the logical (d) drive and install XP. Of course XP will automatically put some files on drive (c) as well.

3. After installation of XP is complete, boot off the RC2 disc and install the new OS on the primary (c) drive. It will give you some warning about moving your old windows on c: to windows.old, but you don't have to worry since yours is on d. Just continue.


If you decide to install XP on the primary (c drive) and RC2 on the logical (d drive), it will work as well without giving you the warning mentioned in instruction 3. But you'll find out that when you boot into Vista, the logical drive you thought was drive d is labelled as drive c and the drive you installed XP on will be labelled drive d. When you boot into XP, however, things are back to normal with the drive letters flip-flopped. This is no big deal to some, but for me I'd rather have the drive letters to remain consistent and used the method above.
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And that's one of the reasons I wasn't going to do dual boot, because it gets a little confusing with the drive letters.

But I can't worry about that until I get Vista burned, so someone help me! 🙂
 
Read through the Vista Hive that is stickied. IIRC, someone had the same problem. I don't remember the solution, however.
 
Originally posted by: ricochet
Read through the Vista Hive that is stickied. IIRC, someone had the same problem. I don't remember the solution, however.
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Damn, that's like a million pages lol. I'll try it. If only the search worked....
 
Ok I just downloaded imgburn and it seems to have worked, so I'm going to try booting from it now.
EDIT: It works!
 
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