Hi all. I'm fed up with trying to get Vista to run standalone on another disk, but I must proceed with testing of Win 7 *upgrade* procedure -- specifically to test compatibility with existing drivers and apps.
What I want to do at this point is create a reliable image of the existing Vista system partition (to be saved on another disk). Then I'll do the Windows 7 RC upgrade testing on the original Vista partition (C). After testing is complete, I want to fully restore the original Vista image back to the C: drive, with MBR and other booting issues all properly taken care of. For the moment I have removed the Linux partition that normally shares that drive for simplicity's sake, but there is another data partition on the same drive that I'd prefer not to have to image/save (due to its size).
Can anyone recommend a SAFE procedure for proceeding?
Thanks!
What I want to do at this point is create a reliable image of the existing Vista system partition (to be saved on another disk). Then I'll do the Windows 7 RC upgrade testing on the original Vista partition (C). After testing is complete, I want to fully restore the original Vista image back to the C: drive, with MBR and other booting issues all properly taken care of. For the moment I have removed the Linux partition that normally shares that drive for simplicity's sake, but there is another data partition on the same drive that I'd prefer not to have to image/save (due to its size).
Can anyone recommend a SAFE procedure for proceeding?
Thanks!