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8. Click Next, review the Windows Vista license terms, and then select the I Accept The

License Terms check box. Click Next.

9. To upgrade to Windows Vista, you need to start the installation process from Windows

XP rather than booting off the Windows Vista DVD-ROM. Click Custom.

10. On the Where You Do You Want To Install Windows page, click Drive Options

(Advanced).

11. Locate the new drive that you have just installed. In Figure 1-15, you can see that the

newly installed drive is Disk 1. The entire drive is unallocated, and it has no partitions.

Disk 0, on the other hand, has a single partition of 5.0 GB and a small amount of unal-

located space.

Figure 1-15

Installing Windows Vista on a second disk

12. Ensure that the disk with unallocated space is selected, and click New.

13. By default, all space on the disk is allocated to the new partition on which you install

Windows Vista. Click Apply.

14. Click Format to format the newly created partition with the NTFS file system. When the

installation routine has finished formatting the partition, click Next.

15. You need to wait for some time while Windows copies files, installs features and updates,

and then completes the installation. The installation reboots during this process.

16. At the Choose A User Name And Picture page, assign the username Kim_Ackers and the

password: P@ssw0rd. You need to enter the password twice, and you should enter a

hint to remind you of what the password is. Click Next.