"Andy" <andy@indigo.ie> wrote in message
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> Will be getting a new Dell PC soon with Windows Vista preloaded on it
> (Doubt if it will come with a Vista installation CD). What I want to know
> is if I can easily install Windows XP and leave the Vista intact and just
> chose at startup of PC whether to use Vista or XP? - I think they call it
> dual booting isn't it?
>
> But I don't really want to go formatting and partitioning the hard drive
> if I can avoid it to do this.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Andy.
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Andy, as usual here you have several answers and lots of the political
issues attached to any purchase you make but Dell's that I have bought and
friends have received in the last year have all been OK.

You did not say if you were to buy laptop or desktop but either way you will
get a full restore CD included. You have the choice at Dell to have XP or
Vista pre loaded. Because of the price differences I would have Vista.

Rather than disrupt in anyway the installation of the original Vista
system, because of warrantee considerations, I would think about a second
hard drive for the XP and maybe go for the cheaper option now that XP will
be available at greatly reduced prices. If you get a laptop a USB hard drive
would do the job.






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Ian

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