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Right, I've just purchased a rather nice XPS 1710 which ships with Vista Premium on it. Due to me living in 3 different properties at the moment I'm after some gaming to pass the evenings away.
Working on hearsay as I've not actually used Vista myself I was intending to dual boot XP Pro on it for playing games until the few problems Vista has are ironed out but I must confess I'm not compleatly sure how to go about it on a laptop. Done it on desktops many a time but this is new ground for me.
Having never owned a Dell laptop I'm unsure whether the recovery data for reinstalling are on the HDD in a separate partition or if they come on disk.
Asuming its on disk, do I just reformat and partition the HDD to whatever is suitable. Install Vista on C: and then XP on D: or vise versa ?
However, should the recover data be on a partition already, how do I go about making a 2nd partition to install XP without the risk of losing the recovery data in the original partition ?
God I'm getting old, used to not worry about such things and just get on with it and then fix it when I messed it up
Working on hearsay as I've not actually used Vista myself I was intending to dual boot XP Pro on it for playing games until the few problems Vista has are ironed out but I must confess I'm not compleatly sure how to go about it on a laptop. Done it on desktops many a time but this is new ground for me.
Having never owned a Dell laptop I'm unsure whether the recovery data for reinstalling are on the HDD in a separate partition or if they come on disk.
Asuming its on disk, do I just reformat and partition the HDD to whatever is suitable. Install Vista on C: and then XP on D: or vise versa ?
However, should the recover data be on a partition already, how do I go about making a 2nd partition to install XP without the risk of losing the recovery data in the original partition ?
God I'm getting old, used to not worry about such things and just get on with it and then fix it when I messed it up