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J-Mac:
I have the full version on DVD. If you want to do it as an upgrade from Vista boot into Vista as normal and then insert the disc and follow the prompts.

You can buy upgrades online with a download. Personally I think they are to be avoided as the DVD acts as a rescue media in case of problems. With the download you don't get that - although you can no doubt find instructions via google on how to produce an ISO file from the MS WIM file.-Carol Haynes (November 03, 2009, 01:40 PM)
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Thanks for the advice, Carol. I will go the DVD route.

PS: Beware EasyBCD is buggy as hell.
-Carol Haynes (November 03, 2009, 01:40 PM)
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Thanks - I just wasn't familiar with the term "BCD". I googled it and got a Wikipedia link to EasyBCD near the top, so I mistakenly thought that was what you were talking about. Now I see that BCD is just the term for the way that Vista boots, rather than boot.ini. And I guess Win7 uses the same.

Thanks again,

Jim

siouxdax:
How is it that every time I post here I spark such vigorous conversation? I love it. I must wave my magical wand here more often. (Yikes, that sounds vaguely obscene. LOL.)

Carol Haynes:
Now I see that BCD is just the term for the way that Vista boots, rather than boot.ini.
-J-Mac (November 03, 2009, 02:10 PM)
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That's right. The trouble is that boot.ini was relatively easy to edit. BCD is much more complicated and hardwork. EasyBCD was written (along with a number of other attempts) to give an easy graphical interface. To a certain extent EasyBCD works OK but there are so many bugs it is hard to get exactly what you want and it only supports a small subset of the BCD command set.

MilesAhead:
edit:

VistaBootPro free:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/VistaBootPRO.shtml

now it's morphed into Dual Boot Pro for about $10:
http://www.vistabootpro.org/

I don't know how useful it is for day to day operations.  But following the guide for adding XP to a PC with Vista already installed, VistaBootPro made fixing up the boot manager easy. Only thing is in the case of XP you still have to get around the "ntldr missing or corrupt" error. ;)

afa my ugrade to W7 experiences, I did the "custom install" on top of Vista32 and got the 206,000 file Windows.old folder but everything seemed to work ok.  Doing the same on Vista64 my start menu was hosed and it was generally unrewarding.  Vist64 SP1 felt so much like W7 without the Superbar that I just put Vista64 back on.  It runs smooth on my quad core.  Don't see any reason to change it.

edit2: btw this is all beta W7.  I doubt I'll purchase W7 until it comes with SP1 integrated.

edit3: this link may also be useful:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2676-bcdedit-how-use.html

Innuendo:
Doing the same on Vista64 my start menu was hosed and it was generally unrewarding.-MilesAhead (November 03, 2009, 02:29 PM)
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A friend had start menu trouble & it came to pass that it had something to do with having pinned items on the start menu. Don't know if that's the cause of your trouble or not, though.

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