installing vista

devizes18193

hi i have a dell gx270 with 3 gb ram and a 40gb hard drive currently running xp .
have a 120 gb hard disk from a laptop in a usb dock >is there any way i could install vista on the usb drve and maybe get the thing to dual boot .
Its runnng a bit slow but moneys tight so im trying top find money saving solutions

alexandera

You can even install Windows Vista with USB 2.0 flash memory drive now. All you need is a high speed 4GB flash memory only to create a bootable Windows Vista on flash memory drive

devizes18193

alexandera wrote: »

You can even install Windows Vista with USB 2.0 flash memory drive now. All you need is a high speed 4GB flash memory only to create a bootable Windows Vista on flash memory drive

would it make it slower ?

oliver84_2

devizes18193 wrote: »

would it make it slower ?

Its better to increase the hard drive space before installing dual boot.

tronator

devizes18193 wrote: »

would it make it slower ?

Of course, the USB connection will be the bottleneck.

googler

Why on earth would you WANT to install Vista?

It's the biggest waste of space ever. Having used it on two separate PCs for a while, I'm going back to XP.

When an OS cannot execute a straightforward cut/paste operation without leaving some of the selected folders behind in the source folder, it's a crummy OS, in my view......

Hammyman

Isn't the Dell GX270 a Pentium 4 ?

tronator

googler wrote: »

When an OS cannot execute a straightforward cut/paste operation without leaving some of the selected folders behind in the source folder, it's a crummy OS, in my view......

People bought IPhones even though it couldn't "execute a straightforward cut/paste operation"

devizes18193

Hammyman wrote: »

Isn't the Dell GX270 a Pentium 4 ?

yes it is why

devizes18193

googler wrote: »

Why on earth would you WANT to install Vista?

It's the biggest waste of space ever. Having used it on two separate PCs for a while, I'm going back to XP.

When an OS cannot execute a straightforward cut/paste operation without leaving some of the selected folders behind in the source folder, it's a crummy OS, in my view......

Im just trying to make the thing more useful with out spending money , 40 gb is crap for a hard disk so its a case of using the 120 gb laptop drive to best effect

aliEnRIK

Why not just get to the bottom of whay its slow in the 1st place, and use the 120Gb hardrive as a simple storage device? Vistas also slower than XP to run so I too am baffled as to why youd install Vista to 'speed it up'!

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reboot
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