Does anyone have experience with Vista on these T42specs?

[Vasant56]

Hi there,

I have a T42 with the following specs:
P-M 1.7 ghz
40 GB HD (Partitioned.. see below)
1.5 GB RAM
Radeon 9600m 64mb


Now I have my harddrive partitioned into 17GB that I use for XP, and 20B that I use for data.. i hope to not need to modify my partitions, and I was wondering if vista would install okay on my 17gb partition? Roughly how much space does it take up?

Thanks a lot, much appreciated!

[Melvyn]

Vista "requires" 15gb to install.

In fact, you'll run vista with only 7gb, but you'll need the whole 15 to start, because at install time, vista copies it images to disk, then decompress it, then install, then will take 1.8gb for virtual memory plus 1.5gb to hibernation, plus a lot of temp space.

When finished, you'll have 11gb of used space, hibernation don't work good, so you delete hiberfill and will have around 10gb.

See image:


Another shots of vista in a T42:
http://www.infosantiago.com/melvyn/vista

Search forum to my review of vista in my TP (details in signature).

Good luck.

[Vasant56]

So 15 gigs for the install + a few more for other things?

Mabye I can move my partitions around to give an extra 5 gigs to my windows partition

[thedogwarrior]

One of the nice things about Vista is that you can dynamically resize partitions *after* installing, while Vista is in use. Reformat, etc., and size according to Vista's requirements, then once you're up and running, go here:

Control Panel\Administrative Tools. Under Storage / Disk Management, right-click on the partition in question, and you'll see Shrink Volume.. and Extend Volume.. options. If you took the entire disk for the install, Extend Volume.. will be unavailable.

I've not run Vista on that TP model, I have run Vista on a similarly spec'd Dell Inspiron 8600, with just a 1.5 Centrino proc. Even with just a 64MB nVidia card, I could run Aero just fine. Not as snappy as my T60, but well enough!

Good luck.

[Melvyn]

One of the nice things about Vista is that you can dynamically resize partitions *after* installing, while Vista is in use. Reformat, etc., and size according to Vista's requirements, then once you're up and running.

Well, that's true in part. Dynamic resize is only available "to the right".

So, if you have one partition of 17GB and another at the right of 20gb you can't get the 17gb bigger. You can do it smaller, but no more.

Of course you can resize the 20gb to, let's say 15gb; the remaining 5gb will be placed to the right, never to the left, and vista will no have access to them. So, vista can't take that space.

When you shrink a partition, you only free space "to the right".

I've used it a lot.

Recomendation: download GParted. It's a bootable .ISO image of 50mb and it's 100% compatible with vista's ntfs, and all type of partitions and move, resize and whatever in any direction.

[SHoTTa35]

just wanted to throw my specs in here too: Vista running on my machine great

(Specs in signature)