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[bajunid]

HI guys,

I just got a copy of Vista Ultimate from my PC Suplier. He sort of give it for me for free as I brought 4 of my friends to go and build a pc from their shop.

The thing is, I'm currently running XP with a 320 GB sata 3.0 with NCQ drive partitioned to C: (50GB) and E: (270 GB). When I first installed XP I used a disk to install a driver for me to use the SATA disk with NCQ function.

Should I format C: to install Vista, would it affect my E: partition as it used to run with NCQ driver installed under XP installation?

I don't want to lose 270 GB worth of Anime......if I were to format C: as the driver for the HDD was installed with XP....

I really hope you guys understands what I'm saying here...

p/s: I don't know whether I provide enough info for you 'Techies' to help me? Thank in advance for the help

[TheContact]

Yeah, honestly? I'd back it all up before installing Vista... plenty of incompatibilities right now.   I'm staying clear of Vista for probably a year until everyone has their act together.

[kostjan]

I have 2 personal work boxes at work, one is my 3 year old P4C 2.6 running XP, and the second one is a brand new and shiny (well, at least it was in december) Dell tower on which I installed Vista last December... Needless to say, the Vista box sits there in the corner, and I barely use it...  My professional tools do not work with it, even Microsoft's own VS / TFS runs only with a half-assed broken beta patch that crashes every few hours... About the only thing I do on the box is play FPS with my co-workers, as conroe + crappy ati card >> p4c + even crappier (even by 3 year old standards) graphic card...

So yeah.. Avoid Vista for now.. Ask yourself - what does Vista do for you that your XP can't?? And if it's for the "eye candy (which is very limited and annoying at long run), get yourself al inux distro and install Beryl on it - it jumps hoops and runs loops around Vista's Aeroglass.

[TheContact]

Yeah, Microsoft's XNA stuff still doesn't run on Vista, which means there's no way I'm installing it yet

[bajunid]

Hmm....well..I think I'll just keep that copy of Vista first then.

Maybe by then I'll have at least 2 GB of RAM...as Now I only have 1 GB.

Thanks guys.

p/s: BTW, I don't know of any easier way I can back up temporarily 242 GB worth of Animes to install Vista. Burning them on DVDs will take hours....

[TheContact]

Yeah, I have some 400 gigs of stuff.. I can't burn it all for backup, so I just buy external disks these days

[kostjan]

I've been running Vista ever since I've jumped on the quadcore bandwagon when intel cut the prices back in July, and it works just great. Everything runs smooth as silk, for the exception of few very old (potentially 16 bit) programs (like NetDrive).

One thing I'd do differently now is to get a 64 bit version, as:
- 16 bit programs seem to crap out anyway on 32bit version
- Stupid 32 bit OS cannot address more than 4 Gigs of RAM properly

The only thing that annoys me with Vista is their new network protocol, which is not as backward compatible with XP one as MS claims it to be.. Setting up mixed XP-Vista networks and file shares without a domain controller is a royal pain in arriere.

(wow.. I resurrected a x month old thread... bwawwaa).