Thinking on installing Vista Home Premium on my system (Abit BE7 with PIV 3.06GB (O/C'd to 3.5GB), 1GB Ram) when it's released in a week or so, I have run the Vista upgrade advisor and this has said that my HPT372 Raid controller on my 4 year old ABit BE7 will not run. I have had a look on the Abit and Highpoint web site and there doesn't seem to any Vista drivers available.
If there is no Vista drivers available is there a chance that the latest XP drivers will be OK, when XP was launched 5 years ago some of my hardware manufactures didn't release XP drivers but Windows 2000 drivers did the trick.
Also my Creative Live 5.1 soundcard is not going to have Vista drivers available, what's the chance of this running with Vista.
I know installing Vista will slow my PC down but I am planning to build a new PC at the end of this year or start of next so if the worst comes to the worst I'll just stick with XP until then but I'd like to be familiar with Vista before I upgrade.
Another option would be to dual boot, how do I set this up on the same hard drive, is it an option during Vista install. What I would like is a menu upon boot as to with OS I wish to boot to.
