If I simply buy Windows Vista from Windows Marketplace, then, how do I install it? I read a few articles telling me how to do it but, I would like to install Windows Vista on my D:/ Drive WHILE the Drive is in my current computer, so, I have more control. I have Windows XP on my C:/ Drive. How would I tell Windows Vista to install itself on my D:/ Drive instead of my C:/ Drive? Is this at all confusing? So basically what I'd do is...
Download Windows Vista from Windows Marketplace
Extract the files
Launch them WHILE they're on my D:/ Drive... run the installer so Windows Vista installs on my D:/ Drive while I'm on Windows XP on my computer.
Once Windows Vista is installed on my D:/ Drive, I'll take the D:/ Drive and put it in my new computer so I don't have to install the operating system on my new computer and it'd just boot up right away. Would this work? It sounds confusing, I know, but, I want to install Windows Vista directly to my D:/ Drive while using my current computer, and not transferring the OS-Less drive to my new computer, and then installing it there.
Does this make sense? How would I go about doing this? How would I tell Windows Vista [once I've unpacked everything and got it ready], to install itself on my D:/ Drive instead of my C:/ Drive [it wouldn't work on my C:/ Drive anyways, too much crap clogging it up, I'd get an error, probably, telling me it couldn't create a partition space or something...]?
The other alternative is putting all the Vista files on my flash drive, and then booting my new computer up from my flash drive. My question is, would I take all the files and put them on the flash drive DIRECTLY, OR, take all the files, burn them into an .ISO File, and then put the .ISO file of Windows Vista on my flash drive, and then launching from the flash drive. Would this work? I don't have an ISO creator program, so, I'd have to get a free one, but, I think it would maybe make more sense to put all the Windows Vista files on my 4 GB Flash Drive, and then launch the Operating System from my flash drive, which then will install Windows Vista. Does this sound like it might work? I really need thorough help on this. I'd prefer the flash drive option, however, installing Vista on my D:/ Drive before putting it in my new computer could also work.
I'd just have the Vista disk sent to me, but, that might take a few days and I'd rather verify everything works and such so I can send in the mail-in-rebates and test if anything is dead or not.
The flash drive option sounds good to me, my main question is: Do I unload all the Vista files, and then pop them on the flash drive, OR burn them into an ISO file and put them on the flash drive? But, this might not even work, since, after unpacking the files it might go over 5GB of space. So, I might have to pre-install on my D:/ Drive, man, I'm confused!
So, is there any way to put Windows Vista on my D:/ Drive WHILE the D:/ Drive is in my OLD computer, and then transfer the D:/ drive over to my new computer with Vista already installed? I know it'd probably try to install on my C:/ Drive, so, how would I tell the Vista installer to install everything on my D:/ Drive?
Thanks!
NeciFiX