vista clean install

Hi, I ordered the Vista on disk. Is it better to do a clean install or and upgrade? I would like to do a clean install and then install the Office beta 2 and quickbooks 2006. Which is the best way?

For much more information on installing Vista subscribe to
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
And read everything connected with installing Vista (there's a lot) and Office 2007 Beta. I don't remember seeing anything abot Quickbooks 2006, but then I wasn't looking for it. If you don't see anything about Quickbooks 2006, you could ask there.
Also read all the horror stories from people who upgraded their XP production systems to Vista, got their Vista systems corrupted to the point they will no longer function, and want to restore XP.
If you do an upgrade of your production XP account there is a very large chance that you will lose your data. There is no uninstall for Vista, and no path for returning to XP. The uninstall consists of reformatting the partition and doing a clean install of XP. If you want to install Vista on your production machine, create a new partition and install it there in a dual boot configuration, do not upgrade a production OS
Also keep in mind that Vista does not use boot.sys, it has it's own Vista boot manager which will be installed on your XP partition. If you remove Vista, you will have to either reconfigure the Vista boot manager to boot XP or you will have to remove the Vista boot manager, and get boot.sys working again. A number of users have been unable to find boot,sys when they wanted it, so back it up somewhere that you can find it if you need another copy.
It is far better to do a clean install of Vista on a freshly formatted partition.
Todd
"Franklin" wrote in message

Hi, I ordered the Vista on disk. Is it better to do a clean install or and upgrade? I would like to do a clean install and then install the Office beta 2 and quickbooks 2006. Which is the best way?

"Todd" wrote in message

For much more information on installing Vista subscribe to
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
And read everything connected with installing Vista (there's a lot) and Office 2007 Beta. I don't remember seeing anything abot Quickbooks 2006, but then I wasn't looking for it. If you don't see anything about Quickbooks 2006, you could ask there.
Also read all the horror stories from people who upgraded their XP production systems to Vista, got their Vista systems corrupted to the point they will no longer function, and want to restore XP.
If you do an upgrade of your production XP account there is a very large chance that you will lose your data. There is no uninstall for Vista, and no path for returning to XP. The uninstall consists of reformatting the partition and doing a clean install of XP. If you want to install Vista on your production machine, create a new partition and install it there in a dual boot configuration, do not upgrade a production OS
Also keep in mind that Vista does not use boot.sys, it has it's own Vista boot manager which will be installed on your XP partition. If you remove Vista, you will have to either reconfigure the Vista boot manager to boot XP or you will have to remove the Vista boot manager, and get boot.sys working again. A number of users have been unable to find boot,sys when they wanted it, so back it up somewhere that you can find it if you need another copy.
It is far better to do a clean install of Vista on a freshly formatted partition.
Todd
"Franklin" wrote in message Hi, I ordered the Vista on disk. Is it better to do a clean install or and upgrade? I would like to do a clean install and then install the Office beta 2 and quickbooks 2006. Which is the best way?

Please ignore the above post. You are in the right place.
I thought I was in microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics when I wrote it.
Todd

"Todd" wrote in message

Please ignore the above post. You are in the right place.
I thought I was in microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics when I wrote it.
Todd

Glad to see this happens to someone else, too.
-- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, OE/WM Please reply in newsgroup.

"Franklin" wrote in message

Hi, I ordered the Vista on disk. Is it better to do a clean install or and upgrade? I would like to do a clean install and then install the Office beta 2 and quickbooks 2006. Which is the best way?
Do *not* ignore the parts of Todd's post about potential data loss!

Installing a beta OS over a production OS on a machine you use to do work is just asking for trouble. Installing any beta software on a production is risky, and should be proceeded by a full data backup. A beta OS increases the risk factor by several orders of magnitude.
-- Peter [MVP Visual Developer] Jack of all trades, master of none.

If you don't have spare installation XP, you can try the upgrade for testing purposes. I preferably would go with the Clean install since it lessens the problems currently associated with upgrading from XP, such as performance hits, unknown glitches. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Franklin" wrote in message

Hi, I ordered the Vista on disk. Is it better to do a clean install or and upgrade? I would like to do a clean install and then install the Office beta 2 and quickbooks 2006. Which is the best way?