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Jon, I searched.... Its new
I just recieved a Dell with Vista Business from Dell. Arrived today
I/We as a company have specific hardware/software that has specific OS issues, as the company who makes the laser systems does and will not support Vista (as well as only using serial)
As support for these has been removed from vista, I would like to dual boot XP/Vista
I know that you can have a system with XP on it, then put Vista on another partition (this works fine cause of the new vista bootloader)
However...What if the machine had vista on it already?
I could wipe the hdd....
Install XP
Then install vista and that would work.
However....I dont believe Dell's Vista disk is a full OS as it does not act as one. It dont give me the options that my full version of Vista ultimate does.
(full vista, allows new partition for vista)
Dell's OEM version only says delete HDD and install Vista.
Is it possible- to make this work?
(I have a feeling dell will hear about this)
Vista specifically states that XP/Vista dual booting is possible but Microsoft/Dell has made this feature impossible with there "special" version of the disk.
Does anyone have a secret/special/idea on how I can load "xp pro" then use the dell disk to install the "dells special version of vista" on another partition?
I just recieved a Dell with Vista Business from Dell. Arrived today
I/We as a company have specific hardware/software that has specific OS issues, as the company who makes the laser systems does and will not support Vista (as well as only using serial)
As support for these has been removed from vista, I would like to dual boot XP/Vista
I know that you can have a system with XP on it, then put Vista on another partition (this works fine cause of the new vista bootloader)
However...What if the machine had vista on it already?
I could wipe the hdd....
Install XP
Then install vista and that would work.
However....I dont believe Dell's Vista disk is a full OS as it does not act as one. It dont give me the options that my full version of Vista ultimate does.
(full vista, allows new partition for vista)
Dell's OEM version only says delete HDD and install Vista.
Is it possible- to make this work?
(I have a feeling dell will hear about this)
Vista specifically states that XP/Vista dual booting is possible but Microsoft/Dell has made this feature impossible with there "special" version of the disk.
Does anyone have a secret/special/idea on how I can load "xp pro" then use the dell disk to install the "dells special version of vista" on another partition?