and is installing Xp effecting my Dell insurance ?

 

If you have a problem with you system you may be asked to reinstall Vista to get support for your

computer !!

If it did not come with XP you are out of luck thay will not help you!

 

You are wrong when you install any OS other than what your PC came with you will not get any

support help from Dell for that OS you need to read more on the subject .

 

do people have any problems getting tech support from dell if they've upgraded from XP to vista?

Only if it was an approved upgrade to Vista they will get support from Dell !

 

Now do you think i would get support for my computers that were upgraded to Vista 64 bit from Dell

2 of them are still under warranty Dell will tell me no way we do not support the OS unless we installed it !!

And Dell is not going to support a downgrade at all !

 

Hi

if you have a problem with your hardware like the hard drive goes out you can get

support for that but not for a OS change

If they ask to connect to your PC and you have XP on it and not Vista you will not get the help

unless you pay extra money for it !

I'm not sure what you mean by { insurance} if you mean warranty yes it voids your software

warranty not your hardware !

If you buy XP Retail from Dell Microsoft would be the support for XP retail not Dell and Dell will not sell you an OEM XP to go on your PC !

If your hard drive was to go out and you used the OS that Dell installed no your PC

you would be safe !

   

OS is not my problem of concern, what I was asking is if any Hard drive break, then I would contact Dell and said this and this happen, and if they find out that I install other OS that they have provided my with, would it cancel my insurance, and reason why I want to go back to Xp is that I use a lot of softwares, some of them are old, and Vista really struggle with some of them, and they still have to work on it till then I'll go to Xp, sad I can’t go back to 98 :)

i have latitude D830 and i had this problem .
i did this :
first:copy all the nessesary information from my hdd to dvds
second : restart and change the config of sata in the bios setup ( before this
         you must the flash config in the bios setup)
third: boot from xp and partition your hdd to 3 partition and install the xp os
       on the c drive.
forth: when the installing of xp ends , use your vista dvd when you are in xp os
       ( dot boot from vista dvd ) and install it in drive d
fivth : put your informations to drive e

note I : you need to have xp drivers for your notebook , so before all download
        them from dell.
note II : if your notebook has media direct , after second step you must use 
          your mediadirect cd. it will format all the harddisk and have a partiontion
          for itself. and after step five again use the mediadirect cd to complete
          its installation.

Yes I can Move all my files to buck up Drive or in to DVD, and then If there is problem I can use back up DVD provided by Dell. I was hoping to install Xp with out reinstalling software’s I have but I think that’s impossible.