Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 1... Out Now!

[Nemeliza]

you can dualboot with win 9x and XP/2k just as long as you install the oldest OS FIRST! otherwise your farked.

[directhex]

Only if your installing to the same drive on seperate partitions though? win9x should never touch another drive? - Exept when your trying to install it to another drive with a 9x boot already on one, in which casse it will install 6mb to the second drive and run from the previous drive.

9x cannot boot unless it boots from what it considers to be the first drive, first partition. it will gladly overwrite the boot records of another disk, if you have another disk set to boot from

[SilentDeath]

9x cannot boot unless it boots from what it considers to be the first drive, first partition. it will gladly overwrite the boot records of another disk, if you have another disk set to boot from

So you set win9x as boot drive before installing, and let it install to the first partition, which should be the only bootable partition on that drive imo.

Other OS goes on other drive, that way you can use your bios's bootmenu (escape) to select boot drive without having to change boot order.

Will win9x affect the boot sectors of any drives other than the one its installing on?

Quite irrelevant really becuase I never intend to use win9x, again, ever! What about win2k and the new versions, are they happy together?

[directhex]

you can run multiple versions of nt side by side fine.

[unreal]

Time to arrange a dual-boot system, hehe

Apparently the driver support for this is much better, but I kinda expected that for a 2gb+ OS

[Spud1]

I've got it up and running now (eventually), pain in the ass with my sata drives - until i used the server2003 versions at which point everything went smoothly installed in just 20mins, it even foudn drivers for my wLan card which i was shocked about (in a good way )

Seems very stable so far, had a few compatability problems at first with installing things that checked the OS version numbers (eg my sound card drivers) but the handy XP compatability mode worked a treat so now I have everything installed

Currently seems good enough for me to run it as a main OS (though its still dual booting with XP atm) but time will tell i guess, won't really know until Battlefield2 crashes (but then that thing crashes randomly anyway )

[nvening]

where are these people getting the beta form???

[SilentDeath]

where are these people getting the beta form???

Its probably on all p2p networks by now, but to get it the proper way you need a MSDN subsription I think, the same as IE7 beta...

[Xaneden]

As Silent Death suggested, I downloaded IE 7 from a P2P network. Vista is also available, as is a crack for it, which is sad to say the least

I'm somewhat dismayed at Microsoft. They have introduced new security features for downloading and using their software, yet have retained the exact same product activation system; therefore giving people an easy ride in 'cracking' it.

I might do a mini review of IE 7 if anyones interested, and include some pictures of it in action soon. One problem in particular which a lot of people are experiencing, is that the Windows Update site does not work on it. However, it is early days.

[ikonia]

I'm somewhat dismayed at Microsoft. They have introduced new security features for downloading and using their software, yet have retained the exact same product activation system; therefore giving people an easy ride in 'cracking' it.

or they may not have finished the security intergration yet, MS use the word beta far too easy. I'd suggest that this is possibly closer to "alpha"

[Spud1]

where are these people getting the beta form???

MSDN for me helps having a housemate with a HP RnD subscription

[Dougal]

Spud1 -> Cld you do a beta review for us? ANd tell us your hardware too?

[Spud1]

i'm really bad at reviews lol but i'll have a go tomorrow if you like when ive got a bit of time

Hardware = 3ghzP4, ECS PF21 Extream mobo, 1024 DDR2 ram, X800 PCI-E

Runs nicely for me though, few compatability issues with the odd bit of software but all the major stuff works in it.

[Dougal]

Anyone have this running on an A64?

[nez]

they only released a 32bit not 64bit yet

[Spud1]

Nope both are out there...I can get both off the site although ive no use for the 64bit version