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Dual Boot on XPS 630
I am new to this forum so I apologise if I break any rules accidently. I am taking delivery of my 630 on Monday and it is coming with Vista 32 Home on it and I want to add XP home to it. Can I use Vista disc management to partition the HDD and shrink the Vista partition,format the unused space and install xp. I know theres a bit more to it so any advice would be welcome.
specs
E8500
4gb 800mhz
crossfire 3870 HD
750gb HDD
SB X-FI xtremegamer
cademetz
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May 16th, 2008 17:00
Maturecheese
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May 16th, 2008 18:00
Thanks for the promp reply Cademetz. The problem,as I see it, with wiping the HDD and starting from scratch is the drivers and the Partition Dell put on the hdd for system restore. I would like to do it that way as I have Vista Home OEM and XP home OEM on discs never used but wouldn't it affect the warranty by removing their restore partition.
I have read that you can do it vista first but the bootloader needs to be tinkered with.
keithg2
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May 16th, 2008 19:00
It's easy to put XP on after Vista using these instructions and VistaBootPro. The instructions even explain how to shrink your C partition so you can put XP on a new partition. I've done this before and it works great!
Maturecheese
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May 16th, 2008 19:00
cademetz
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May 16th, 2008 22:00