Vista Upgrade - Mostly Good
A lot of people have been talking over the weekend about how they've upgraded to Vista and either had it work without a hitch, or with some very big hitches indeed.
My story is mostly boring - a couple of little hitches, but nothing too major.
Things started off really badly. I downloaded Vista on Friday afternoon, and burnt it off almost as soon as it was complete. Saturday afternoon I backed everything up from my XP machine, and then ran the installer. I formatted C drive, told Vista to install there, and off it went.
For about 10 seconds.
And then it died. No amount of retrying or rebooting sorted it out.
It was pretty easy to work out what had happened. Since I'd already formatted C drive, and the only place that the Vista iso existed was a different partition on the same computer, I reinstalled XP (for once I didn't bother to set any custom settings), installed Nero, and reburnt the image, this time at a slower speed.
Reboot again, run the Vista install and everything was sweet. It's funny how things work better with media that works :)
I'm pretty impressed with how many devices Vista knows about. The only devices I had to install manually were my wireless card and the audio driver. Oh, and the webcam. Everything else was recognised either out of the box or from windows update once I had a net connection.
There's one device that doesn't work - Jordie's mobile phone software. But we still have another XP box in the house, so that's no big deal. And Ultramon needs to be updated for Vista (to be honest I haven't checked to see if it's already been updated).
Everything else seems to be running like a train.