Installing Vista

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Cpetrie

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I recently ordered Vista Home Premium 64-Bit (System Builder), I currently have Windows XP Professional SP3 installed. I have XP installed on a 50gb partition of my 500gb HDD (the other partition is the rest of the drive, ~450gb). I have a large amount of media that I would like to save, but I have no means to back it all up. I am not really certain what to do, currently I think I will pick 32gb of stuff to save and throw it on an older IDE HDD. The reason I need to do this, is because I assume a 50gb partition will not be large enough for Vista. If anyone understands the Vista installation process and has a suggestion for me, I would appreciate it. Thank you.
 
Well, if 50gb is sufficient, I suppose I do not have anything to worry about. However, if there is a way to install Vista while selectively retaining certain data, I would prefer that.
 
You can just do a clean install over your xp partition. Insert the dvd and select your xp partition to install the vista.
 
In my 180GB hard drive which has vista on when i have installed vista and drivers and that is all vista tells me i have about 18GB of 180GB used, that is with no partitions in, so 50GB should be plenty.
 
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