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Windows Vista on a modern build?

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elcid79

Junior Member
I have an old copy of Windows Vista Ultimate sitting in a drawer, complete license legal legit copy. Not an upgrade or anything. I also have a complete copy of windows XP pro, the same story. Well, I see that MS is selling the win 8 os ugprade for $39.00 is possible to install Vista or XP on a modern computer and have it boot long enough to activate and do a new install? Or will there be incompatibilities with the newer hardware?

MainBoard GA-970-UD3,
AMD 8350,
16gb 1866 Ram (2x8gb Viper III) ,
AMD 7770 1gb.

Cheers.
 
The GIGABYTE website says you'll be fine:

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I'd suggest downloading all the drivers for whichever OS you decide to go with for the initial install, and copy them to a USB stick. Especially check that you have your storage controller drivers available in the event the Vista installer asks for them. Complete the install, activate, and then upgrade to Windows 8 if you want.


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If you bought the Windows 8 upgrade anyway, try burning it to a CD or USB drive and just running it from there.

All of my upgrades worked right off of the bat, but all of my upgrade versions were delivered in .iso versions. If it's a .exe version, this won't work.
 
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