New to Vista Home Premium

Hello, I just purchased Vista Home Premium and intend to install it but have
a few questions before doing so.

1. Can Vista be installed onto a FAT32 drive/partition? My current XP is
on FAT32.
2. What is a good imaging program that works well with Vista, once it is
installed?
3. Will Microsoft Office 2003 work with Vista?

Thanks in advance.

Frank wrote:

> Hello, I just purchased Vista Home Premium and intend to install it but
> have a few questions before doing so.
>
> 1. Can Vista be installed onto a FAT32 drive/partition? My current XP is
> on FAT32.

As far as I know, Vista can't be on a FAT32 partition without some rather
complicated trickery. If you bought an upgrade version of Vista (which
needs to be installed from within the running XP OS), I think I'd convert
your XP install to NTFS first. This is easy to do, but you should back up
your data first. Of course, you should back up your data anyway before
doing something big like an operating system upgrade.

http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm - Converting FAT32 to NTFS by Alex
Nichol

> 2. What is a good imaging program that works well with Vista, once it is
> installed?

Acronis True Image.

> 3. Will Microsoft Office 2003 work with Vista?

Yes.

Malke
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2/ Acronis True Image Home 2009

3/ Yes Office 2003 will work on Vista

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"Frank" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello, I just purchased Vista Home Premium and intend to install it but
> have a few questions before doing so.
>
> 1. Can Vista be installed onto a FAT32 drive/partition? My current XP is
> on FAT32.
> 2. What is a good imaging program that works well with Vista, once it is
> installed?
> 3. Will Microsoft Office 2003 work with Vista?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

How much memory do you have, and what is your processor?

Earle

"Frank" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello, I just purchased Vista Home Premium and intend to install it but
> have a few questions before doing so.
>
> 1. Can Vista be installed onto a FAT32 drive/partition? My current XP is
> on FAT32.
> 2. What is a good imaging program that works well with Vista, once it is
> installed?
> 3. Will Microsoft Office 2003 work with Vista?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

Earle, you forgot to answer the 3 questions. Please try again.


"Earle Horton" <> wrote in message
news:...
> How much memory do you have, and what is your processor?
>
> Earle
>
> "Frank" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Hello, I just purchased Vista Home Premium and intend to install it but
>> have a few questions before doing so.
>>
>> 1. Can Vista be installed onto a FAT32 drive/partition? My current XP
>> is on FAT32.
>> 2. What is a good imaging program that works well with Vista, once it is
>> installed?
>> 3. Will Microsoft Office 2003 work with Vista?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
>

"Earle Horton" <> wrote:

>How much memory do you have, and what is your processor?
>
>Earle

Why do you need to know that to answer the questions? The info you
asked for should have absolution NO bearing on the answers.

>"Frank" <> wrote in message
>news:...
>> Hello, I just purchased Vista Home Premium and intend to install it but
>> have a few questions before doing so.
>>
>> 1. Can Vista be installed onto a FAT32 drive/partition? My current XP is
>> on FAT32.
>> 2. What is a good imaging program that works well with Vista, once it is
>> installed?
>> 3. Will Microsoft Office 2003 work with Vista?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>

"Snidley W." <> wrote in message
news...
> "Earle Horton" <> wrote:
>
>>How much memory do you have, and what is your processor?
>>
>>Earle
>
> Why do you need to know that to answer the questions? The info you
> asked for should have absolution NO bearing on the answers.

If the OP is running on a FAT32 partition, then it's highly probable that
the machine may not be of sufficient spec to run Vista properly. I say it's
a perfectly valid question and mat save the OP a lot of grief in the long
run.

I know having a FAT32 partition per se is not a reason for Vista not to
work, but most modern machines with sufficient performance to run Vista
properly tend to be NTFS formatted...

"Gordon" <> wrote:

>"Snidley W." <> wrote in message
>news.. .
>> "Earle Horton" <> wrote:
>>
>>>How much memory do you have, and what is your processor?
>>>
>>>Earle
>>
>> Why do you need to know that to answer the questions? The info you
>> asked for should have absolution NO bearing on the answers.
>
>If the OP is running on a FAT32 partition, then it's highly probable that
>the machine may not be of sufficient spec to run Vista properly. I say it's
>a perfectly valid question and mat save the OP a lot of grief in the long
>run.

Where was there any mention of FAT32 in the question!?

Please. Stick to what you see and don't start pulling imaginary
scenarios outta your hiney.

"Gordon" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> "Snidley W." <> wrote in message
> news...
>> "Earle Horton" <> wrote:
>>
>>>How much memory do you have, and what is your processor?
>>>
>>>Earle
>>
>> Why do you need to know that to answer the questions? The info you
>> asked for should have absolution NO bearing on the answers.
>
> If the OP is running on a FAT32 partition, then it's highly probable that
> the machine may not be of sufficient spec to run Vista properly. I say
> it's a perfectly valid question and mat save the OP a lot of grief in the
> long run.
>
> I know having a FAT32 partition per se is not a reason for Vista not to
> work, but most modern machines with sufficient performance to run Vista
> properly tend to be NTFS formatted...
Yeah, I was thinking that the OP might be trying to install Vista on
something like this Thinkpad T20 I am using at the moment, 512 Mb, 700 MHz,
30 Gb. Just because you can buy Vista Home Premium shrink wrapped in a box
at Office Depot, doesn't mean it will work for you.

Cheers,

Earke

"Snidley W." <> wrote in message
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> "Gordon" <> wrote:
>
>>"Snidley W." <> wrote in message
>>news. ..
>>> "Earle Horton" <> wrote:
>>>
>>>>How much memory do you have, and what is your processor?
>>>>
>>>>Earle
>>>
>>> Why do you need to know that to answer the questions? The info you
>>> asked for should have absolution NO bearing on the answers.
>>
>>If the OP is running on a FAT32 partition, then it's highly probable that
>>the machine may not be of sufficient spec to run Vista properly. I say
>>it's
>>a perfectly valid question and mat save the OP a lot of grief in the long
>>run.
>
> Where was there any mention of FAT32 in the question!?
>


From the OP:
"1. Can Vista be installed onto a FAT32 drive/partition? My current XP is
on FAT32"

THAT'S where FAT32 came from. Dork.