And, TBH, I'd like to ask a question too; can you easily dual-boot Vista with XP, like does it give the option in the installation process?

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I know there's two options of installation.

1. Clean Install - Format your HD and install Vista
2. Upgrade - Just upgrade from XP, no files lost.

If you want to daul-boot, I HIGHLY recommend using a secondary hard drive, if there's even an option to use Vista with XP.

i installed it on my laptop recently
first of all, it lets u dual boot if u install it on a hard drive or pertition that dosent have xp on it. if u do that, then when u boot up your comp, a boot loder comes up with Microsoft Windows (vista) and earlier version of windows(xp)
in my opinon... its only OK.... similar to xp except restyled... also it isnt compatible with alot of xp progrAMS \but my video card cant support windows aero so icant give an accurate judgement on that
EDIT: to answer the original questions - yes it runs very smoothly for me and takes about an hour total to install

Actaually, I just found this:


EDIT: Just read mebizzle's post, how do I set up a hard drive partition?

EDIT 2: Actually, don't bother replying, my dad would go nuts if I installed an OS without him knowing it even really excisted, and we don't have super-fast internet anyways. (1.3Mbps from my room, upgrading to 2Mbps next month)

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there are ways around that if you dual boot though

Thanks for the info. I'm about to burn the ISO DVD, hope the installation goes well!

you can dual boot it, but it likes to be put on a different partition/harddrive. If you are running win XP, you can partion easly. Right click on my computer, then click on "manage." Then click on "disk managment," and partion from there. You may have to do a defrag to get enough space.

From there, turn off your computer, and boot off of the cd/dvd. Select the new partion, and install. It may say something about replacing/modifying the master boot recourd (i.e., MBR), and let it do it's stuff. Congrats, you have vista and xp on the same machine.

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ok that helps heaps but i already have vista installed on my laptop, can i still partition it and install xp on the other partition, cuz vista is running really slow on it seeing that it is only 1.7ghz and 447mb of RAM ah and will i be able to partition on a 40gb harddrive?

EDIT: ok well it turnes out that my laptop is already partitioned into a second part which i think is for the toshiba main setup screen stuff when i boot up. but my question is, can i partion it again and if i can then how do i go about it?

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It took 35 minutes on my Alienware mALX Laptop so around 50 minutes on other computers. The GUI looks nice and alot of features are actually pretty usefull. One thing I recomend is Dual Booting it with XP as some things dont work in Vista.

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