Re: XP and Vista

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"Nonny" wrote:

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:07:11 -0700, Louis126
<Louis126@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

No. Besides the licensing problem that you would apparently overlook
(judging by your second post), that CD is no doubt locked to the Dell
that is now your wife's.

So your wish to pirate has been foiled.

You wanna dual boot? Buy a copy of XP.

Yes, thank you for clearing this up.


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

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