What to do first?

greenmymac · May 7, 2008

I recently bought Windows Vista Home Premium (Update Only Edition because I have XP Home) My question is when I put XP Home on my Macbook should I install the Bootcamp Drivers from the CD and update the Drivers via Software Update before I upgrade Vista or should I upgrade to Vista first then put all the drivers on..... About a week ago I installed XP put the drivers on and updated the drivers then upgraded to vista I had alot of Driver issues on Vista so I i got rid of Windows on my Mac.

So what should I do?

chscag · May 7, 2008

greenmymac said:
I recently bought Windows Vista Home Premium (Update Only Edition because I have XP Home) My question is when I put XP Home on my Macbook should I install the Bootcamp Drivers from the CD and update the Drivers via Software Update before I upgrade Vista or should I upgrade to Vista first then put all the drivers on..... About a week ago I installed XP put the drivers on and updated the drivers then upgraded to vista I had alot of Driver issues on Vista so I i got rid of Windows on my Mac.

So what should I do?

Use Boot Camp to restore your Mac's hard drive to HFS+ only, then create a new partition for Windows. Install Vista clean but don't activate it yet. Use your Leopard DVD to install drivers for Vista. When you're satisfied everything is running OK, activate Vista. Doing an upgrade from XP to Vista and then trying to install drivers for Vista may cause problems - as you found out.

Regards.

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