Re: XP and Vista

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"PvdG42" wrote:

"Louis126" <Louis126@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello All,

I am a Computer Networking major at a small community college in the town
where I live. I know that someone else presently has a very similar
question,
but I feel mine is specific to my own need, so I will present it here in
hopes someone will be able to help.

My laptop was pre-loaded with Vista Home Basic. However, my wife has a
laptop also (which I gave her when I bought this newer one), which was
pre-loaded with XP Professional. Like the person who has also already
posted
a question in this community similar to my question, I too have a software
program (In my case I need to use it for a class I am taking at the
college I
am now attending). The program was designed to run in XP, and does not do
well with Vista.

So my question is, can I use the Reinstallation CD (which came with my
Dell
laptop), which has Windows XP Professional on it, and create a DUAL BOOT
on
my Toshiba laptop which is currently running Windows Vista Home Basis.

I am aware that, one of the things I would need to do in order to
determine
if this would be possible would be to find the information on my Vista
laptop
which gives a rundown of the partitions and drives. However, for the life
of
me, I cannot seem to find that information on this laptop. It seems like
Vista hides stuff like this pretty well (I know that it's much easier to
find
stuff like this in XP, in my opinion).

So, if anyone knows anything about what I am asking, could you please
respond, and let me know all of the steps I would need to take in order to
get the ball rolling on this DUAL BOOT (if it would even be possible to do
such a thing, as I have described here).

Thanks!

Louis126


1. If you do, you're in violation of your OEM license agreement.

2. Practically speaking, it's extremely unlikely to work, and will probably
hose your new laptop. Reason? Your new laptop uses new/different hardware
that requires different drivers than those on your OEM CD.

If you intend to take the risk, at least make *sure* the new laptop OEM has
XP drivers for *all* devices in the new laptop.

Also, you have additional adventures coming your way in the boot sector.

No, that's OK. I don't think I'll take that chance.

On another note though, I'd like to add: I'm really amazed at all of the
LICENSE POLICE who hang out in this community. It really amazes me. I think
what really amazes me most about this is, why in the world you think I would
give a rat's *** about any of that. The ONLY relevant LICENSING issue here
is that I have rights to use both of these instances of Microsoft Windows
software. I acknowledge that a license does not give a person ownership. But
it does give user rights to the one who paid for it. That is all that matters
here.
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