If you
take this opportunity to start anew, you??™ll have a leaner, faster PC when
all is said and done, even if it does take more time to set up at the outset.
Be free of old hardware drivers. Even if Vista updates every hardware
driver on your PC during an upgrade installation, pieces of the old drivers
and support software??”not to mention Registry settings from those
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old versions??”will remain on your system and undoubtedly cause headaches
down the road. Don??™t be surprised if you can??™t get your sound
card??”or any sound card, for that matter??”to work on an upgraded
Vista installation.
It??™s harder. OK, this may not seem like a selling point for a fresh install, but
why back away from a challenge? It??™s not that much harder than
upgrading.
Set up a dual-boot system. You??™ll need to install fresh if you want to keep
your old Windows installation intact; see ???Set Up a Dual-Boot System,???
later in this chapter, for details.
Before upgrading or installing fresh on a hard disk containing
data, you??™d be wise to back up the entire system. But
make sure the backup software you use??”not to mention the
backup device??”will also operate in Windows Vista so you
can read the media after the install is complete; otherwise,
your backup will be worthless. See Chapter 6 for details on
restoring data from a backup made in an earlier version of
Windows.
So, if you want to proceed to upgrade your old software, just pop in the
Vista disc and start the setup program.
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