Silver0066

Spooky, You are just plain wrong about that. The instructions are very clear, that if you have to load a legacy driver, you cannot upgrade your XP system to Vista. You can only do a clean install. There may be a semantics issue here, in that you can still install from XP, ie, "upgrade", but it will not keep your programs and settings intact, it will do a clean install, even though you did it from XP. I am not using Vista betas, I am using the Business Edition. Silver

Spooky, It has nothing to do with the XP Operating system. It is a function of Vista. When you have to use the "Load Drivers" command from the Custom Install Menu during setup, VISTA will only allow a clean install. It is not like the old (F6) system where you loaded the drivers before you started the install, just after booting.

I have a RAID setup (Silicon Image 3114 Sata Raid Controller). Vista does not have the drivers. I obtained the .txt drivers from the SI website and I am able to perform a Clean install using "Load Drivers" (formerly "F6" in XP), but NOT an Upgrade install. I recognize many think a Clean Install is better, but I have performed several Upgrade Installs on computers that Vista provided drivers for. No problem as Vista does a good job of cleaning out all the old XP files. Does anyone know a way to integrate these drivers into an install disk? Or any other work-around to this problem? Many thanks,

Are you thinking about the ability to insert Mass Storage Drivers into Vlite, ie, Silicon Image 3114 Raid 5 Controller Driver. I now have to do it with a floppy or USB stick. After 5 years of development, Vista Enterprise, for some strange reason does not allow an Upgrade Install if you have a Mass Storage Raid system and have to install the drivers this way. This company is just amazing in their incompetence.