How much time does your PC take to install Vista?

[dev0lution]

RC1 - About 40 minutes, but that was from installing in Windows XP to another drive with so-so HDD and DVD drive.

Much, much more polished installer than Beta 2.

 

[Madellga]

x86 version took 20 minutes on my second rig, using an empty Seagate 160Gb sata1 (7200.7)

This is my first Vista experience, still have to learn a bit.

 

[eelw]

Off topic now, but it took like a hour and a half to install OSX86 on my system. It's the same older 27GB HD that I originally installed Vista on that took 65 minutes to install.

 

[Maverick1]

Originally posted by: Noema

Originally posted by: akshayt
Will Vista install faster if I use Daemon tools to mount the ISO rather than using the DVD drive. That would be like creating a virutal drive and actually installing from the HDD?

Also, why does vista install fast on some computers and slow on others?

You cannot install Vista from the mounted image because of all the reboots that take place during the installation process (because Daemon tools must be running for the ISO to be mounted, and that can only happen after you boot back to XP), unless you installed from a virtual machine of course.

Here's what I did, since I don't have a DVD burner: mounted the ISO, copied all the files into one of my HDDs, and then ran the installer from XP. The installer 'remembers' the path you ran setup from and takes it from there. I think that's why it installed so fast in my rig, in spite of its being barely middle-end.

You are completely wrong there, I Updated my Beta 2 using CD daemon, it copy's all the files it needs to the HD then finishes the install. took about an hour and a half on my slower 8mb cache IDE HD since I use the back half of F as storage. I'm also having some heat issues due to humidity and that had a hand in the slower time. probably would have taken an hr. if conditions would have been just right. I do know it took a minimum of 1hr to get everything updated.

 

[bigdaddy51]

About 45 minutes on a NF2 build with a 40 gb 7200 hd. Note that Vista wouldn't even run setup on a K8 MSI build.

 

[BehindEnemyLines]

Took about 20-25 minutes depending when you start counting and stopping.

Pentium D-805
1GB Single Channel
200GB PATA 8MB Maxtor (installed to a 20GB partition)

The 200GB maxtor is set as the "Master" on the IDE Channel 0 and the 80GB western digital is set as the "Slave". During installation, I chose to install on the first primary partition on the 200GB (~20GB). For some reason, the boot information is stored on the 80GB which is one single primary parition. Choosing the 200GB as the boot hard drive wouldn't work. You would need to choose the 80GB which is used as a data backup hard drive. Weird???

200GB (Master): 20GB Primary (VISTA) > Extended > Logical, Logical, Logical.
80GB (Slave): 80GB Primary

 

[gsellis]

Folks, are you loading Home, Business, MCE or Ultimate? That might be making the huge differences.

 

[geejo]

Intel pentium m1.7 with 1.25ghz ram , 5200rpm hdd= 30 minutes

Amd64 3500 1Gb ram, 7200rpmhdd = 25 minutes

 

[Shawn]

It took probably around 25min to install Vista RC1 on my P4 3.06GHz.