Quick vista home upgrade question

[Heller]

Ok so basicly,

i got this copy off

widows vista home edition upgrade for free

the disc says

"windows vista anytime upgrade"

my buddy got it with his comp he bought a while back before vista was released and he doesent wan it cause hes familiar with xp

so my question is, can i load this up on my computer?

also

how can i backup my files
i have ~40.gb's of movies
and ~5gbs of music

what can i do to back them up

i dont have a spare HDD.

 

[erickj92]

You can use a bunch of DVD-RW's to back up your files..... But I dont know about upgrading to Vista with that cd.... If you have the same brand of computer and your friend that got the disk you may be able to do it. But to upgrade to Vista you must have the following:
512 MB Ram
128 MB Video Memory
14 GB Free HDD Space

 

[Heller]

Originally posted by: erickj92
You can use a bunch of DVD-RW's to back up your files..... But I dont know about upgrading to Vista with that cd.... If you have the same brand of computer and your friend that got the disk you may be able to do it. But to upgrade to Vista you must have the following:
512 MB Ram
128 MB Video Memory
14 GB Free HDD Space

well i got a 1gb of pc2700

and onbaord video.

 

[erickj92]

If your onboard Video is 128 MB or more it should work. What is the brand of your pc?

 

[Heller]

its an insignia d400

its upgraded from 512mb to 1gb
its my old media pc that i used before i got into the building seen
only worry i have is i dont see a serial # on the cs, just a barcode with 2 lines of numbers

 

[Heller]

also what software can i use to transfer my videos/music to my dvd-r


i do have a dvd burner.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Should have gotten some kind of Nero program with that burner.

 

[bigdaddy51]

Originally posted by: Heller
also what software can i use to transfer my videos/music to my dvd-r


i do have a dvd burner.

Download a 30 day free Eval copy of Nero7 and use that.

 

[erickj92]

If your DVD burner did not cume with software you will have to buy burning software