[bratboy]

Could use a little help/advice.
Im in the process of upgrading a bunch of my hardware including the MB as well as using the Vista home premium upgrade. Currently my old system is still XP.

Anyway what Im wondering is how best to do things? Should I uninstall all replaced HW in device manager migrate all my HW and first run XP so it detects all the new hardware then just run the Vista upgrade on the XP OS so all of my old sw and settings are intact or is there a better way. Have tried to search the web but not been able to find a good guide for my plan so any help/advice would be appreciated in this matter.
Sincere Thx
Jesse

[temeteus82]

The Vista install will detect itself the devices that you have installed so there isn't any need to install them in XP. I would just upgrade the hardware first then start the PC and put the Vista DVD on the drive and start installing it.

[bratboy]

Humm, that sounds easy enough, I thought the upgrade cd had to run from within XP

[temeteus82]

It's not really needed. Since the install will detect the installed xp anyways on the boot

[bratboy]

So would I want to set the bios to boot from CD 1st. Otherwise I thought on reboot XP would insist on finding everything. Seems so much easier if I boot up with the Vista disc and let it detect everything and proceed with installing vista. I was just worried about Vista trying to get online for updates via inet.

Any other advice/suggestions as to ways to make things less painfull?

[temeteus82]

yeah put the boot order like this: CD/DVD, HDD, Floppy.. If you can make backups oif all important files you might want to keep. Since it's recommend to do "clean" install of Vista, I think you can do so with the upgrade DVD.