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Best way to switch O.S. from MCE2005 to Vista? xiowan 01-30-2007
Posted by xiowan on January 30, 2007, 5:50 pm
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 Hi All:
I am thinking of getting Vista Home Premium Retail O.S. and installing
it in my main computer. This computer has several hard drives devoted to
video storage only and I want to use them with the Vista O.S. My question
is, should I do a clean install booting from the DVD to my RAID 0 system
drives which are partitioned into 3 primary partitions with MCE2005 on a 60
GB partition and replace that with Vista or should I install Vista from the
MCE2005 O.S. and install it as an upgrade. My primary concerns are retaining
the RAID 0 drives as currently partitioned and maintaining access to my media
library on the 5 other storage drives. There is very little information
available as to installing Vista on an already set-up RAID 0 system. I think
I read that I won't need to use the F6 method to re-set up the RAID 0 because
Vista will automatically recognize it, but I'm not sure! I was considering
disconnecting all the storage drives during the install and then
re-connecting them after the install........will Vista automatically
recognize them and allow access or will the DRM features of Vista prevent me
from using them since they were recorded on a MCE2005 O.S. None of the
recorded programming shows as "protected" in MCE2005. I have updated the
system Bios to Intel's latest but they don't state that the bios work with
Vista. The motherboard is a DG965WH with a Core2 Duo E6600 cpu and I have a
recent (Nvidia 7600GT) graphics card so I think I'm ok hardware wise. Since
this is a top of the line motherboard will Vista have the necessary chipset
drivers in the DVD or do I need to install those after the O.S. install?
Any tips for this Vista installation would be appreciated.

xiowan.........in tucson

Posted by JerryM \(ID\) on January 30, 2007, 6:04 pm
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 Do an Upgrade to keep all other programs intact,
OR
Disconnect all other drives to do a clean install to Disc No1, with a full
Retail version.

The choice is yours.


> Hi All:
> I am thinking of getting Vista Home Premium Retail O.S. and installing
> it in my main computer. This computer has several hard drives devoted to
> video storage only and I want to use them with the Vista O.S. My question
> is, should I do a clean install booting from the DVD to my RAID 0 system
> drives which are partitioned into 3 primary partitions with MCE2005 on a
> 60
> GB partition and replace that with Vista or should I install Vista from
> the
> MCE2005 O.S. and install it as an upgrade. My primary concerns are
> retaining
> the RAID 0 drives as currently partitioned and maintaining access to my
> media
> library on the 5 other storage drives. There is very little information
> available as to installing Vista on an already set-up RAID 0 system. I
> think
> I read that I won't need to use the F6 method to re-set up the RAID 0
> because
> Vista will automatically recognize it, but I'm not sure! I was
> considering
> disconnecting all the storage drives during the install and then
> re-connecting them after the install........will Vista automatically
> recognize them and allow access or will the DRM features of Vista prevent
> me
> from using them since they were recorded on a MCE2005 O.S. None of the
> recorded programming shows as "protected" in MCE2005. I have updated the
> system Bios to Intel's latest but they don't state that the bios work with
> Vista. The motherboard is a DG965WH with a Core2 Duo E6600 cpu and I
> have a
> recent (Nvidia 7600GT) graphics card so I think I'm ok hardware wise.
> Since
> this is a top of the line motherboard will Vista have the necessary
> chipset
> drivers in the DVD or do I need to install those after the O.S. install?
> Any tips for this Vista installation would be appreciated.
>
> xiowan.........in tucson



Posted by xiowan on January 30, 2007, 6:40 pm
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Hi JerryM:
Thanks for the input. I plan on using the retail version. I gather
from your response that the pc will boot from the dvd for a clean install.
Will my present RAID 0 volumes be automatically retained or will I need to
use the F6 floppy again and re-set the RAID 0 volumes? I prefer the clean
install so I can add my different software back in one at a time to make sure
of compatibility.

xiowan.........in tucson

"JerryM (ID)" wrote:

> Do an Upgrade to keep all other programs intact,
> OR
> Disconnect all other drives to do a clean install to Disc No1, with a full
> Retail version.
>
> The choice is yours.
>
>
> > Hi All:
> > I am thinking of getting Vista Home Premium Retail O.S. and installing
> > it in my main computer. This computer has several hard drives devoted to
> > video storage only and I want to use them with the Vista O.S. My question
> > is, should I do a clean install booting from the DVD to my RAID 0 system
> > drives which are partitioned into 3 primary partitions with MCE2005 on a
> > 60
> > GB partition and replace that with Vista or should I install Vista from
> > the
> > MCE2005 O.S. and install it as an upgrade. My primary concerns are
> > retaining
> > the RAID 0 drives as currently partitioned and maintaining access to my
> > media
> > library on the 5 other storage drives. There is very little information
> > available as to installing Vista on an already set-up RAID 0 system. I
> > think
> > I read that I won't need to use the F6 method to re-set up the RAID 0
> > because
> > Vista will automatically recognize it, but I'm not sure! I was
> > considering
> > disconnecting all the storage drives during the install and then
> > re-connecting them after the install........will Vista automatically
> > recognize them and allow access or will the DRM features of Vista prevent
> > me
> > from using them since they were recorded on a MCE2005 O.S. None of the
> > recorded programming shows as "protected" in MCE2005. I have updated the
> > system Bios to Intel's latest but they don't state that the bios work with
> > Vista. The motherboard is a DG965WH with a Core2 Duo E6600 cpu and I
> > have a
> > recent (Nvidia 7600GT) graphics card so I think I'm ok hardware wise.
> > Since
> > this is a top of the line motherboard will Vista have the necessary
> > chipset
> > drivers in the DVD or do I need to install those after the O.S. install?
> > Any tips for this Vista installation would be appreciated.
> >
> > xiowan.........in tucson
>
>
>

Posted by JerryM \(ID\) on January 30, 2007, 10:27 pm
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Give it a try,

It should recognize the raid volumes,
If not, you can reset the Raid volumes.

Good luck,
Jerry

> Hi JerryM:
> Thanks for the input. I plan on using the retail version. I gather
> from your response that the pc will boot from the dvd for a clean install.
> Will my present RAID 0 volumes be automatically retained or will I need to
> use the F6 floppy again and re-set the RAID 0 volumes? I prefer the clean
> install so I can add my different software back in one at a time to make
> sure
> of compatibility.
>
> xiowan.........in tucson
>
> "JerryM (ID)" wrote:
>
>> Do an Upgrade to keep all other programs intact,
>> OR
>> Disconnect all other drives to do a clean install to Disc No1, with a
>> full
>> Retail version.
>>
>> The choice is yours.
>>
>>
>> > Hi All:
>> > I am thinking of getting Vista Home Premium Retail O.S. and
>> > installing
>> > it in my main computer. This computer has several hard drives devoted
>> > to
>> > video storage only and I want to use them with the Vista O.S. My
>> > question
>> > is, should I do a clean install booting from the DVD to my RAID 0
>> > system
>> > drives which are partitioned into 3 primary partitions with MCE2005 on
>> > a
>> > 60
>> > GB partition and replace that with Vista or should I install Vista from
>> > the
>> > MCE2005 O.S. and install it as an upgrade. My primary concerns are
>> > retaining
>> > the RAID 0 drives as currently partitioned and maintaining access to my
>> > media
>> > library on the 5 other storage drives. There is very little
>> > information
>> > available as to installing Vista on an already set-up RAID 0 system. I
>> > think
>> > I read that I won't need to use the F6 method to re-set up the RAID 0
>> > because
>> > Vista will automatically recognize it, but I'm not sure! I was
>> > considering
>> > disconnecting all the storage drives during the install and then
>> > re-connecting them after the install........will Vista automatically
>> > recognize them and allow access or will the DRM features of Vista
>> > prevent
>> > me
>> > from using them since they were recorded on a MCE2005 O.S. None of the
>> > recorded programming shows as "protected" in MCE2005. I have updated
>> > the
>> > system Bios to Intel's latest but they don't state that the bios work
>> > with
>> > Vista. The motherboard is a DG965WH with a Core2 Duo E6600 cpu and I
>> > have a
>> > recent (Nvidia 7600GT) graphics card so I think I'm ok hardware wise.
>> > Since
>> > this is a top of the line motherboard will Vista have the necessary
>> > chipset
>> > drivers in the DVD or do I need to install those after the O.S.
>> > install?
>> > Any tips for this Vista installation would be appreciated.
>> >
>> > xiowan.........in tucson
>>
>>
>>



Posted by Dana Cline - MVP on January 31, 2007, 8:15 am
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It may depend on your Raid - is it a software raid such as Windows already
uses? If so, you may have to bring up Disk Manager once Vista's up and tell
it to import the drives (I think the Windows terminology is Dynamic Drive).
If its a hardware Raid controller, then you'll need to check with its
manufacturer to make sure its Vista-compatible...may need new drivers, Vista
may have them, may need new raid card Bios...only they know for sure. In any
case, I'd disconnect them until Vista is installed and running, then power
off and reconnect.

As far as the motherboard chipset, I guess that depends. Vista recognized
everything on my Dell 370, but a recent install on a PCChips motherboard
didn't have network or audio drivers so I had to get those from their web
site.

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

> Hi All:
> I am thinking of getting Vista Home Premium Retail O.S. and installing
> it in my main computer. This computer has several hard drives devoted to
> video storage only and I want to use them with the Vista O.S. My question
> is, should I do a clean install booting from the DVD to my RAID 0 system
> drives which are partitioned into 3 primary partitions with MCE2005 on a
> 60
> GB partition and replace that with Vista or should I install Vista from
> the
> MCE2005 O.S. and install it as an upgrade. My primary concerns are
> retaining
> the RAID 0 drives as currently partitioned and maintaining access to my
> media
> library on the 5 other storage drives. There is very little information
> available as to installing Vista on an already set-up RAID 0 system. I
> think
> I read that I won't need to use the F6 method to re-set up the RAID 0
> because
> Vista will automatically recognize it, but I'm not sure! I was
> considering
> disconnecting all the storage drives during the install and then
> re-connecting them after the install........will Vista automatically
> recognize them and allow access or will the DRM features of Vista prevent
> me
> from using them since they were recorded on a MCE2005 O.S. None of the
> recorded programming shows as "protected" in MCE2005. I have updated the
> system Bios to Intel's latest but they don't state that the bios work with
> Vista. The motherboard is a DG965WH with a Core2 Duo E6600 cpu and I
> have a
> recent (Nvidia 7600GT) graphics card so I think I'm ok hardware wise.
> Since
> this is a top of the line motherboard will Vista have the necessary
> chipset
> drivers in the DVD or do I need to install those after the O.S. install?
> Any tips for this Vista installation would be appreciated.
>
> xiowan.........in tucson



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